• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.135-142
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• 2021

In this work, multi-turn wings and guide plates are installed on recycled aggregate crushing devices to improve existing low recycled aggregate quality. Simulation analysis to evaluate the crushing efficiency of the new device shows enhanced crushing efficiency since the installation of guide plates shreds most of the inputs inside the crushing drum, and the multi-turn wings and guide plates induce rebound and circulation of the aggregate. Through this, the new device was found to be more economical and efficient than the existing recycled aggregate crushing device. Also, the amount of cement paste and mortar attached to the surface of the aggregate was smaller than that of the existing recycled aggregate, and it was found that the mechanical properties and elastic modulus deterioration were reduced. However, the carbonation resistance of concrete was not improved to the level of natural aggregates due to the remaining tiny cement paste and mortar on the surface of the new recycled aggregate. Therefore, it is deemed necessary to further research and experiment such as device improvement or binder development to reduce durability degradation of concrete mixed with new recycled aggregate.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.49-55
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• 2021

In this paper, an enhanced 2-stage vehicle license plate detection scheme using object segmentation is proposed to detect accurately the rotated license plates due to the inclined photographing angles in real-road situations. With the previous 3-stage vehicle license plate detection pipeline model, the detection accuracy is likely decreased as the license plates are declined. To resolve this problem, we propose an enhanced 2-stage model by replacing the frontal two processing stages which are for detecting vehicle area and vehicle license plate respectively in only rectangular shapes in the previous 3-stage model with one step to detect vehicle license plate in arbitrarily shapes using object segmentation. According to the comparison results in terms of the detection accuracy of the proposed 2-stage scheme and the previous 3-stage pipeline model against the rotated license plates, the accuracy of the proposed 2-stage scheme is improved by up to about 20% even though the detection process is simplified.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.48-52
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• 2009

We make a simple electrically controllable linear polarization rotator over $360^{\circ}$ without loss by using a thick ECB(electrically controlled birefringence) liquid crystal cell and a quarter wave plate at 514.5 nm wavelength. Its operating principle can be analyzed and explained by using simple polarization analysis and experimental data. We demonstrate that the degree of polarization of the rotator is 0.964 and the temporal variation for 1 week lies within ${\pm}1$ degree. We can easily solve the problem of nonlinearity of the dependence of the rotational angle of linear polarization on the applied voltage by changing the utilized voltage range or its fitting curve.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.8
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• pp.766-773
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• 2016

This paper proposes an aircraft-installed compact offset-parabolic-reflector antenna for the spinning direction-finding applications. The feeder of the reflector antenna is a LPDA antenna that has the ultra-wideband characteristics and the $45^{\circ}$ slant linear polarization. The reflector is designed to be slanted by $5^{\circ}$ in the elevation and to be small in size on the basis of the reference parabolic shape for the purpose of the high gain and mounting on the underside of aircraft fuselage. Over the ultra-wideband 20:1 bandwidth from S to Ka band, the measured average gain of the proposed antenna is 27.97 dBi, and the average half-power beam width is $4.55^{\circ}$ in the azimuth and $4.3^{\circ}$ in the elevation which is the pencil-beam radiation pattern. All the measured data are similar to the simulation results. The designed compact offset-parabolic-reflector antenna that is installed in the limited area has the ultra-wideband and high-gain characteristics. We expect that the newly designed antenna can be applied to the spinning direction-finding antenna system installed in an aircraft.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1041-1042
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• 2015

This paper studies on securing parking spaces and improving parking performance, by use of vehicle license plate investigation for parking turnover ratio. It is easy to test whether a parking lot is effectively used and its traffic flows smoothly or not.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.188-194
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• 2008

We propose the new method for the traffic signs recognition that is one of the DAS(Driving assistance system) in the intelligent vehicle. Our approach estimates a varied degree by using a geometric method from the varied traffic signs in noise, rotation and size, and extracts the recognition symbol from the compensated traffic sign for a recognition by using the sequential color-based clustering. This proposed clustering method classify the traffic sign into the attention, regulation, indication, and auxiliary class. Also, The circular tracing method is used for the final traffic sign recognition. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, varied traffic signs were built. As a result, The proposed method show that the 95 % recognition rate for a single variation, and 93 % recognition rate for a mixed variation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.91-99
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• 2017

The parametric study was performed for performance enhancement of wave energy converter(WEC) using a submerged pendulum plate. The wave exciting moment and hydrodynamic moment were obtained by means of eigenfunction expansion method based on the linear potential theory, and then the roll response of a pendulum plate and time averaged extracted power were investigated. The optimal PTO damping coefficient was suggested to give optimal extracted power. The peak value of optimal extracted power occurs at the resonant frequency. The resonant peak and it's width increase, as the height and thickness of a pendulum plate increase. The mooring line installed at the end of the pendulum plate is effective for extracting wave energy because it can not only induce the resonance with the waves of the installation site but also increase the restoring moment in case of PTO-on. The WEC using a rolling pendulum plate suitable for the shallow water acts as breakwater as well as energy extraction device.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.1109-1110
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• 2011

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.2
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• pp.195-200
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 실제 입력 차량 영상으로부터 명암도 변화 정보와 원형 패턴 벡터를 이용하여 차량 번호판을 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 일반적으로 차량 영상에서는 번호판 영역에서 문자와 배경이 뚜렷하게 구별되고, 일정한 명암도 변화를 가지면서 번호판 이외의 다른 영역 보다 빌집도가 높은 특성이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 성질을 이용하여 먼저 명암도 변화값을 사용하여 번호판을 추출하도록 하였으며 영상 입력 과정에서 외부 환경에 따라 차량 영상이 어둡거나 밝게 입력될 경우에도 동일한 추출 성능을 얻기 위하여 밝기 보정 과정을 수행하였다. 또한 추출된 번호판 영역으로부터 입력 문자의 크기, 이동 및 회전에 무관한 특성 추출을 위해 원형 패턴 벡터를 이용하여 차량 번호를 인식하도록 하였다. 제안한 알고리즘을 적용한 결과 번호판 추출이 가능하였으며 기존의 방법에 비해 계산 속도가 향상되어 실시간 처리의 가능성을 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.241-244
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 차량 영상의 수평 및 수직 명암 값 변화 정보를 이용하여 번호판 영역을 추출하고 원형 패턴 벡터를 이용하여 번호판 내용을 인식하는 알고리즘에 관해 기술하였다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 번호판 영역에서 문자와 배경이 뚜렷하게 구별되고, 일정한 명암도 변화를 가지면서 다른 영역보다 밀집도가 높다는 특성을 이용하여 수평 및 수직 명암도 변화값을 구하여 차량영상에서 번호판 영역을 추출하며 상당히 어둡거나 밝게 입력된 영상에도 동일한 인식 성능을 얻기 위하여 밝기 보정을 수행한다. 또한, 입력 문자의 크기, 이동 및 회전에 무관한 특성을 추출을 위해 원형 패턴 벡터를 이용하여 차량 번호를 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법들을 적용한 결과 계산 속도가 훨씬 빠르며, 차량 번호판의 크기에 관계없이, 또한 잡음에 크게 영향을 받지 않으면서 번호판 추출이 정확하여 실시간 처리의 가능성을 제시하였을 뿐만 아니라 번호판 영역이 불투명하거나 불규칙한 조명 상태에서도 검출이 가능하였다.