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Automatic Notification System of Expiration Date Based on YOLO and OCR algorithm for Blind Person (시각 장애우를 위한 YOLO와 OCR 알고리즘 기반의 유통기한 자동 알림 시스템)

  • Kim, Min-Soo;Moon, Mi-kyung;Han, Chang-hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2021.07a
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    • pp.697-698
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    • 2021
  • 본 논문에서는 시각 장애우의 식품 안전성 증진을 위해 광학 문자 인식 (optical character recognition, OCR) 및 실시간 객체 인식 (you only look once, YOLO) 알고리즘에 기반한 식품의 유통기한 자동 알림 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 1) 스마트폰 카메라를 통해 실시간으로 입력되는 영상에서 YOLO 알고리즘을 활용하여 유통기한으로 예측되는 이미지 영역을 검출하고, 2) 검출된 영역에서 OCR 알고리즘을 활용하여 유통기한 데이터를 추출하며, 3) 최종 추출된 유통기한 데이터를 음성으로 변환하여 시각 장애우에게 전달한다. 개발된 시스템은 유통기한 정보를 추출해서 사용자에게 전달하기까지 평균 약 7초 이내의 빠른 응답 속도를 보였으며, 62.8%의 객체 인식 정확도와 93.6%의 문자 인식 정확도를 보였다. 이러한 결과들은 제안하는 시스템을 시각 장애우들이 실용적으로 활용할 수 있다는 가능성을 보여준다.

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Location Tracking Method using UAV (무인 비행체를 이용한 위치 추적 시스템)

  • Youm, Sungkwan;Min, Junhong;Shin, Kwang-Seong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.514-515
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    • 2021
  • This paper presents a method to find a target using UAVs in LoRa communication environment. The proposed method proposes a UAV flight path so that the target signal can be found without blind spots. The flight path was changed by using the intensity of the transmitted signal during the flight using the variation of the signal strength. We verified the proposed method by simulation and confirmed that it takes a long time to track the target, although the efficiency of the 3 flights is high. It is best to fly three UAVs to reduce time to find target and increase efficiency when the time is a critical factor. The LoRa communication lowers the production cost and makes it possible to construct the system at low cost.

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Assessing Social and Work Environmental Factors Towards Women Upward Career Development: An Empirical Study from Pakistan

  • KHURSHID, Nabila;NASEER, Aleena;KHURSHID, Jamila;KHOKHAR, Arif Masih;IRFAN, Muhammad
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.53-61
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    • 2022
  • The goal of this research was to find the relationship between the work environment and societal issues that impede women's advancement to senior management positions. The study included 500 women professionals from diverse firms in Pakistan's business sector, of whom 100 were chosen as the sample size using a purposive sampling method. Experts confirmed the validity of the study tool, which was a questionnaire, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to verify its reliability (0.704-0.982). The model's standardized regression coefficients suggested that social factors (0.298) were the most important factors determining women's empowerment in terms of career development and that they were further influenced by factors related to the work environment (0.411). It was concluded that organizational rules for female employees assist them to maintain a balance between work and family, resulting in a less stressful working environment. The role of the social factor as a mediator is also thought to be important in maintaining a healthier work environment in companies. It was also determined that much more work needs to be done on promotional regulations, as well as gender-blind legislation so that women's professional advancement is not limited to middle management.

A Real-time Bus Arrival Notification System for Visually Impaired Using Deep Learning (딥 러닝을 이용한 시각장애인을 위한 실시간 버스 도착 알림 시스템)

  • Seyoung Jang;In-Jae Yoo;Seok-Yoon Kim;Youngmo Kim
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.24-29
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, we propose a real-time bus arrival notification system using deep learning to guarantee movement rights for the visually impaired. In modern society, by using location information of public transportation, users can quickly obtain information about public transportation and use public transportation easily. However, since the existing public transportation information system is a visual system, the visually impaired cannot use it. In Korea, various laws have been amended since the 'Act on the Promotion of Transportation for the Vulnerable' was enacted in June 2012 as the Act on the Movement Rights of the Blind, but the visually impaired are experiencing inconvenience in using public transportation. In particular, from the standpoint of the visually impaired, it is impossible to determine whether the bus is coming soon, is coming now, or has already arrived with the current system. In this paper, we use deep learning technology to learn bus numbers and identify upcoming bus numbers. Finally, we propose a method to notify the visually impaired by voice that the bus is coming by using TTS technology.

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Multiple linear regression and fuzzy linear regression based assessment of postseismic structural damage indices

  • Fani I. Gkountakou;Anaxagoras Elenas;Basil K. Papadopoulos
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.429-437
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    • 2023
  • This paper studied the prediction of structural damage indices to buildings after earthquake occurrence using Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) and Fuzzy Linear Regression (FLR) methods. Particularly, the structural damage degree, represented by the Maximum Inter Story Drift Ratio (MISDR), is an essential factor that ensures the safety of the building. Thus, the seismic response of a steel building was evaluated, utilizing 65 seismic accelerograms as input signals. Among the several response quantities, the focus is on the MISDR, which expresses the postseismic damage status. Using MLR and FLR methods and comparing the outputs with the corresponding evaluated by nonlinear dynamic analyses, it was concluded that the FLR method had the most accurate prediction results in contrast to the MLR method. A blind prediction applying a set of another 10 artificial accelerograms also examined the model's effectiveness. The results revealed that the use of the FLR method had the smallest average percentage error level for every set of applied accelerograms, and thus it is a suitable modeling tool in earthquake engineering.

Implementation of voice communication through device interworking and server communication (기기 연동 및 서버 통신을 통한 음성 소통 구현)

  • Cho, Gi-Dong;LEE, Seo-Woo;Bae, Han-Kyeol;Jeong, Hye-Mi;Lee, Ji-Yu;Shin, Chang-Hwa
    • Annual Conference of KIPS
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    • 2021.11a
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    • pp.1308-1311
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    • 2021
  • Currently, the accessibility of households for the visually impaired has increased compared to the past, but there are still many shortcomings in existing methods, and conversely, in the process of changing to a touch screen, there have been more situations that cannot be determined by hand. In this paper, we propose a method to increase the accessibility of blind people to refrigerators, one of the essential furniture, by changing people's action to voice with device linkage and server communication.

FLASH: The First Large Absorption Survey in HI with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder

  • Yoon, Hyein;Sadler, Elaine;Allison, James;Moss, Vanessa;Mahony, Elizabeth;Whiting, Matthew;Su, Renzhi
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.63.2-63.2
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    • 2020
  • FLASH is a blind neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption line survey, eventually targeting about 100,000 background radio continuum sources in the entire southern sky using the full 36-antenna of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). Our primary goal is to search for associated and intervening HI absorption lines in the intermediate redshift range 0.4 < z < 1.0. The survey aims to understand the evolution of HI gas in galaxies as well as various physical mechanisms in active galactic nuclei, such as accretion and feedback processes. In this poster, we give an overview of the FLASH survey and present the preliminary results from our first 100-hrs of pilot observations. The latest survey data covers 1,000 square degrees and is ideal for validating observation and data processing in the continuous 300MHz-width low frequency ASKAP band (700-1000MHz). One of the crucial objectives of the pilot survey is to establish the analysis methodology that will be applied to upcoming large absorption surveys in the future. We discuss our data quality validation and present some detections of associated/intervening HI absorption lines. These absorption lines allow us to trace the cold gas properties of active and normal galaxies at higher redshifts where the HI emission line is too weak to be detectable.

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A Study on Unfairness of Customers according to New Management Strategy at Polarization of Retail Business

  • Kim, Jong-Jin
    • The Journal of Economics, Marketing and Management
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.12-20
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    • 2017
  • The study examined effects of psychological change of distribution environment upon commercial areas to investigate consumers' experience and theory and to suggest power of new management strategy for growth of retailers A The study investigated actual conditions of business transaction of hyper market by blind interview. In April, 2016, the author visited 6 manufacturers to do depth interview. The questionnaire between food manufacturers and hyper market investigated the Association of Food Industries in Korea, NH Nonghyup and large manufacturers in July 2012. Questionnaires of 25 companies were used after excluding questionnaire having poor and inadequate answers. The sales commission with large scaled distribution business decreased (0.3 ~ 0.7) to increase additional expenses such as number of salesmen, interior expenses and economic costs (0.7 ~ 40%). (source: Fair Trade Commission). Fair Trade Commission released types and notice of unfair trade of large scaled retail business based on monopoly regulation and fair trade (hereinafter called 'notice of large scaled retail) to prevent large scaled distribution business from doing unfair trade. The notice controled unfair trade at different position between large scaled distribution business and small vendors.

Object Detection and Localization on Map using Multiple Camera and Lidar Point Cloud

  • Pansipansi, Leonardo John;Jang, Minseok;Lee, Yonsik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.10a
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    • pp.422-424
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    • 2021
  • In this paper, it leads the approach of fusing multiple RGB cameras for visual objects recognition based on deep learning with convolution neural network and 3D Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to observe the environment and match into a 3D world in estimating the distance and position in a form of point cloud map. The goal of perception in multiple cameras are to extract the crucial static and dynamic objects around the autonomous vehicle, especially the blind spot which assists the AV to navigate according to the goal. Numerous cameras with object detection might tend slow-going the computer process in real-time. The computer vision convolution neural network algorithm to use for eradicating this problem use must suitable also to the capacity of the hardware. The localization of classified detected objects comes from the bases of a 3D point cloud environment. But first, the LiDAR point cloud data undergo parsing, and the used algorithm is based on the 3D Euclidean clustering method which gives an accurate on localizing the objects. We evaluated the method using our dataset that comes from VLP-16 and multiple cameras and the results show the completion of the method and multi-sensor fusion strategy.

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Safety device design for preventing pedestrian accidents (보행자 교통사고 예방용 거리측정 및 무선 전송장치 설계)

  • Park, Soo-Bin;Sung, Min-Gwan;Yun, Sang-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2022.10a
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    • pp.161-163
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    • 2022
  • In spite of the recent enforcement of policies to reduce traffic accidents, pedestrian safety accidents on the back road continue to occur. In this paper, we propose a device design to prevent traffic accidents capable of measuring distance and wireless communication to quickly notify pedestrians of the vehicle's approach in a safety blind spot. The accuracy of vehicle and pedestrian distance measurement was tested using ultrasonic and radar sensors with a wide sensing range, and the possibility of responding to accidents that could provide safety for pedestrians in emergency situations was verified through a wireless communication connectivity test between target boards.

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