• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.468-475
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• 2022

Currently, fine dust forecast models are operated by dividing the country into 19 regions. Therefore, it is important to reduce the learning time and the number of models as well as accurate forecast performance to operate lots of forecast models. In this paper, we develop a categorical wide area model that outputs forecast results categorically and integrates the regions with similar regional characteristics. The proposed model improved the convergence rate by 223 times compared to the existing model, which outputs at a single concentration value, and reduced the number of forecast models by a third.