• Title/Summary/Keyword: Convergence Enhancement

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Analysis of Beam-column Joints in a Structure using Strut Members and Composite Section (스트럿 부재와 융합단면을 이용한 기둥-보 강결 구조물 해석)

  • Cho, Jae-Hyeung;Song, Jae-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.23 no.2_2
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    • pp.289-299
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    • 2020
  • The composition of convergence cross-section of the material is a technique that provides reasonable design and construction of structures. It is frequently used in medium-sized bridges and architectural structures. However, the structural behavioral spare capacity enhancement of the structure by the application of the convergence cross-section is still limited by the expandability due to the limiting state of each material. In order to overcome these limitations, this study reasonably analyzed the construction stages before and after the convergence cross-section constructed and developed a technique for forming multi-point boundary conditions using struts, which are compression members. Based on the existing cases, a reasonable construction step for forming the material composite section of the entire structural system of the structure was derived, and a numerical analysis model for a specific part was constructed to analyze the behavior of the strut application. As a result of this study, the effect of reducing the sectional force of 7.40% in beam-column joint and 6.31% in the center of girder was derived, and the deflection, which is a measure of the serviceability of the structure, improved by 54.41% from the installation and dismantling of strut members at each construction stage.

A Contrast Enhancement Method using the Contrast Measure in the Laplacian Pyramid for Digital Mammogram (디지털 맘모그램을 위한 라플라시안 피라미드에서 대비 척도를 이용한 대비 향상 방법)

  • Jeon, Geum-Sang;Lee, Won-Chang;Kim, Sang-Hee
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.24-29
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    • 2014
  • Digital mammography is the most common technique for the early detection of breast cancer. To diagnose the breast cancer in early stages and treat efficiently, many image enhancement methods have been developed. This paper presents a multi-scale contrast enhancement method in the Laplacian pyramid for the digital mammogram. The proposed method decomposes the image into the contrast measures by the Gaussian and Laplacian pyramid, and the pyramid coefficients of decomposed multi-resolution image are defined as the frequency limited local contrast measures by the ratio of high frequency components and low frequency components. The decomposed pyramid coefficients are modified by the contrast measure for enhancing the contrast, and the final enhanced image is obtained by the composition process of the pyramid using the modified coefficients. The proposed method is compared with other existing methods, and demonstrated to have quantitatively good performance in the contrast measure algorithm.

Fingerprint Verification System Using Improved Preprocessing (개선된 전처리 과정을 이용한 지문 인식 시스템)

  • Lee Dong-Wook;Ahn Do-Rang;Lee Jee-Won
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.73-80
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    • 2006
  • Fingerprint-based verification system has been used for a very long time. Because of their well-known uniqueness and immutability, fingerprint is one of the most widely used biometric features. However, fingerprint identification system has such a critical weakness that the performance of verification is reduced drastically for a poor input fingerprint. In this paper, an image enhancement algorithm using enhanced direction and enhanced binary and aiming image is used to mitigate the problem in the preprocessing. The goal of image enhancement is to estimate the quality of input fingerprint image and to improve the clarity of ridge and valley structures of input fingerprint image. Also, a ridge orientation extraction method using index table is proposed to improve the speed of verification. It is shown by the experiments that proposed fingerprint verification system improves the minutiae extraction accuracy and performance of verification.

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A Study on the Security Enhancement for Personal Healthcare Information of CloudHIS (CloudHIS의 개인 의료정보를 위한 보안강화에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Young-Sung;Chung, Ji-Moon;Na, Won-Shik
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.9 no.9
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2019
  • Along with the growth of u-Healthcare, we propose a security enhancement based on network separation for CloudHIS with for handling healthcare information to cope with cyber attack. To protect against all security threats and to establish clear data security policies, we apply desktop computing servers to cloud computing services for CloudHIS. Use two PCs with a hypervisor architecture to apply physical network isolation and select the network using KVM switched controller. The other is a logical network separation using one PC with two OSs, but the network is divided through virtualization. Physical network separation is the physical connection of a PC to each network to block the access path from both the Internet and the business network. The proposed system is an independent desktop used to access an intranet or the Internet through server virtualization technology on a user's physical desktop computer. We can implement an adaptive solution to prevent hacking by configuring the CloudHIS, a cloud system that handles medical hospital information, through network separation for handling security enhancement.

Enhancement of Particle Swarm Optimization by Stabilizing Particle Movement

  • Kim, Hyunseok;Chang, Seongju;Kang, Tae-Gyu
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.1168-1171
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    • 2013
  • We propose an improvement of particle swarm optimization (PSO) based on the stabilization of particle movement (PM). PSO uses a stochastic variable to avoid an unfortunate state in which every particle quickly settles into a unanimous, unchanging direction, which leads to overshoot around the optimum position, resulting in a slow convergence. This study shows that randomly located particles may converge at a fast speed and lower overshoot by using the proportional-integral-derivative approach, which is a widely used feedback control mechanism. A benchmark consisting of representative training datasets in the domains of function approximations and pattern recognitions is used to evaluate the performance of the proposed PSO. The final outcome confirms the improved performance of the PSO through facilitating the stabilization of PM.

A Development of Learning Control Method for the Accurate Control of Industrial Robot (산업용 로봇트의 정밀제어를 위한 학습제어 방법의 개발)

  • 원광호;허경무
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.346-346
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    • 2000
  • We proposed a method of second-order iterative learning control with feedback, which shows an enhancement of convergence speed and robustness to the disturbances in our previous study. In this paper, we show that the proposed second-order iterative learning control algorithm with feedback is more effective and has better convergence performance than the algorithm without feedback in the case of the existence of initial condition errors. And the convergence woof of the proposed algorithm in the case of the existence of initial condition error is given in detail, and the effectiveness of the Proposed algorithm is shown by simulation results.

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Virtual Arrival Mechanism for IEEE 802.15.4 beacon enabled networks (비콘을 사용하는 IEEE 802.15.4 네트워크를 위한 가상 도착 메커니즘)

  • Ha, Jae-Yeol;Lee, Jong-Wook;Kwon, Wook-Hyun;Kim, Jung-Joon;Kim, Yong-Ho;Shim, Young-Hee
    • 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.08a
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2005
  • For power constrained applications, IEEE 802.15.4 networks may be operated in beacon enabled mode with inactive period. In this paper, we propose the Virtual Arrival Mechanism (VAM) to avoid the congestion at the beginning of each contention access period (CAP). Virtual Arrival Mechanism (VAM) is a kind of traffic shaping that spread the traffics congested at the beginning of CAP into the whole CAP. By using VAM, collisions and energy consumption can be reduced. Finally, we evaluate the performance enhancement of VAM using NS-2 simulator.

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Effect of Silver Nanoparticles with Indium Tin Oxide Thin Layers on Silicon Solar Cells

  • Oh, Gyujin;Kim, Eun Kyu
    • Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.91-94
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    • 2017
  • AThe effect of localized surface plasmon on silicon substrates was studied using silver nanoparticles. The nanoparticles were formed by self-arrangement through the surface energy using rapid thermal annealing (RTA) technique after the thin nanolayer of silver was deposited by thermal evaporation. By the theoretical calculation based on Mie scattering and dielectric function of air, indium tin oxide (ITO), and silver, the strong peak of scattering cross section of silver nanoparticles was found at 358 nm for air, and 460 nm for ITO, respectively. Accordingly, the strong suppression of reflectance under the condition of induced light of $30^{\circ}$ occurred at the specific wavelength which is almost in accordance with peak of scattering cross section. When the external quantum efficiency was measured using silicon solar cells with silver nanoparticles, there was small enhancement peak near the 460 nm wavelength in which the light was resonated between silver nanoparticles and ITO.

Abnormal Detection of Railway Point-Machine Under Noise Conditions (잡음 환경에서 선로 전환기 이상 상황 탐지)

  • Choi, Yongju;Lee, Jonguk;Park, Daihee;Chung, Yongwha
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.394-397
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    • 2019
  • 센서 및 정보 통신 기술의 발전은 산업 현장에서 취득한 정보를 기반으로 다양한 연구를 수행할 수 있는 토대가 되었다. 본 연구에서는 철도의 진로 방향을 전환하는 선로 전환기 주변에 설치한 소리 센서에서 수집한 소리를 기반으로 선로 전환기의 이상 상황을 탐지하고자 한다. 이와 같은 소리 데이터 기반의 이상 상황 탐지 시스템을 실제 산업 현장에서 성공적으로 운용되기 위해서는 소리 취득 시 발생하는 다양한 잡음 환경에서도 이상 상황을 식별할 수 있는 강인함이 보장되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 소리 음질을 향상시키기 위하여 SEGAN(Speech Enhancement Generative Adversarial Network)을 활용하며, CNN(Convolutional Neural Network)을 기반으로 선로 전환기의 이상 상황을 식별하는 시스템을 제안한다. 수집된 소리 데이터를 기반으로 제안한 시스템을 실험적으로 검증한 바 잡음에 강인한 성능을 확인하였다.

Cucurbitacin B Suppresses Hyperglycemia Associated with a High Sugar Diet and Promotes Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster

  • Sang, Jiun;Dhakal, Subash;Lee, Youngseok
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.68-78
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    • 2021
  • Secondary metabolites enable plants to protect themselves from herbivorous insects. Among these, cucurbitacin B (cuc-B) is a bitter-tasting compound with promising pharmacological potential. Dietary exposure to cuc-B lowered the hemolymph glucose levels of Drosophila melanogaster fed with a high carbohydrate diet, which is homologous to high blood glucose in humans, and its effect was comparable to that of metformin, a well-known glucose-lowering drug. Furthermore, cuc-B reduced tissue sugar levels and glycogen levels, as well as triacylglycerol levels. Our results thus highlight the potential applicability of this compound to treat chronic metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Additionally, we analyzed sleep quality and taste-associative memory enhancement after cuc-B and metformin treatment. Both supplements increased nighttime bout length and metformin increased memory consolidation. Therefore, discarded shell of Cucurbitaceae could be processed into health supplements.