• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.365-381
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• 2023

The existing vision-based techniques for inspection and condition assessment of civil infrastructure are mostly manual and consequently time-consuming, expensive, subjective, and risky. As a viable alternative, researchers in the past resorted to deep learning-based autonomous damage detection algorithms for expedited post-disaster reconnaissance of structures. Although a number of automatic damage detection algorithms have been proposed, the scarcity of labeled training data remains a major concern. To address this issue, this study proposed a semi-supervised learning (SSL) framework based on consistency regularization and cross-supervision. Image data from post-earthquake reconnaissance, that contains cracks, spalling, and exposed rebars are used to evaluate the proposed solution. Experiments are carried out under different data partition protocols, and it is shown that the proposed SSL method can make use of unlabeled images to enhance the segmentation performance when limited amount of ground truth labels are provided. This study also proposes DeepLab-AASPP and modified versions of U-Net++ based on channel-wise attention mechanism to better segment the components and damage areas from images of reinforced concrete buildings. The channel-wise attention mechanism can effectively improve the performance of the network by dynamically scaling the feature maps so that the networks can focus on more informative feature maps in the concatenation layer. The proposed DeepLab-AASPP achieves the best performance on component segmentation and damage state segmentation tasks with mIoU scores of 0.9850 and 0.7032, respectively. For crack, spalling, and rebar segmentation tasks, modified U-Net++ obtains the best performance with Igou scores (excluding the background pixels) of 0.5449, 0.9375, and 0.5018, respectively. The proposed architectures win the second place in IC-SHM2021 competition in all five tasks of Project 2.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.2627-2642
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• 2023

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a typical, chronic neurodegenerative disease involving the concentration of dopamine, which can disrupt motor activity and cause different degrees of gait disturbance relevant to PD severity in patients. As current clinical PD diagnosis is a complex, time-consuming, and challenging task that relays on physicians' subjective evaluation of visual observations, gait disturbance has been extensively explored to make automatic detection of PD diagnosis and severity rating and provides auxiliary information for physicians' decisions using gait data from various acquisition devices. Among them, wearable sensors have the advantage of flexibility since they do not limit the wearers' activity sphere in this application scenario. In this paper, an attention-based temporal network (ATN) is designed for the time series structure of gait data (vertical ground reaction force signals) from foot sensor systems, to learn the discriminative differences related to PD severity levels hidden in sequential data. The structure of the proposed method is illuminated by Transformer Network for its success in excavating temporal information, containing three modules: a preprocessing module to map intra-moment features, a feature extractor computing complicated gait characteristic of the whole signal sequence in the temporal dimension, and a classifier for the final decision-making about PD severity assessment. The experiment is conducted on the public dataset PDgait of VGRF signals to verify the proposed model's validity and show promising classification performance compared with several existing methods.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제5권11호
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• pp.527-534
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• 2016

최근 정보화 사회에서는 단순 암기보다는 문제 해결 능력과 종합적인 사고력을 바탕으로 창의적인 생각을 할 수 있는 인재를 요구한다. 이에 따라 교육과정도 학생들의 종합적인 사고력을 판단할 수 있는 서답형 문항을 늘리는 방향으로 변하고 있다. 그러나 서답형 문항의 경우 채점자의 주관에 의존하여 채점이 진행되기 때문에, 채점 결과의 일관성을 확보하기 어렵다는 단점이 있다. 이런 점을 해결하기 위해 해외에서는 기계학습을 이용한 자동채점 시스템을 채점 도구로 사용하고 있다. 한국어는 영어와 언어학적으로 다른 분류에 속하므로 영어권에서 사용하는 자동채점 시스템을 한국어에 그대로 적용할 수 없다. 따라서 한국어 체계에 맞는 자동채점 시스템의 개발이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 기계학습 분류기의 예측확률과 만장일치 방법을 사용한 한국어 서답형 문항 자동채점 시스템을 소개하고, 자동채점 시스템을 이용한 채점 결과와 교과 전문가의 채점 결과를 비교하여 자동채점 시스템의 실용성을 검증한다. 본 논문의 실험을 위해 2014년 국가수준 학업성취도 평가의 국어, 사회, 과학 교과의 서답형 문항을 사용했다. 평가 척도로 피어슨 상관계수와 카파계수를 사용했다. 채점자가 개입했을 때와 개입하지 않았을 때의 상관계수 모두 0.7 이상으로 강한 양의 상관관계를 보였다. 이는 자동채점 시스템이 교과 전문가가 채점한 결과와 유사한 방향으로 답안에 점수를 부여한 것이므로 자동채점 시스템을 채점 보조도구로서 충분히 사용할 수 있을 것이다.