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A Study on Real-Time Vision-Based Detection of Skin Pigmentation

  • Yang, Liu;Lee, Suk-Hwan;Kwon, Seong-Geun;Kwon, Ki-Ryong
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.77-85
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    • 2014
  • Usually, the skin pigmentation detection and diagnosis are made by clinicians. In this process it is subjective and non-quantitative. We develop an approach to detect and measure the different pigmentation lesions base on computer vision technology. In the paper we study several usually used skin-detecting color space like HSV, YCbCr and normalized RGB. We compare their performance with illumination influence for detecting the pigmentation lesions better. Base on a relatively stable color space, we propose an approach which is RGB channels vector difference characteristic for the detection. After the object region detection, we also use the difference to measure the difference between the lesion and the surrounding normal skin. From the experiment results, our approach can effectively detect the pigmentation lesion, and perform robustness with different illumination.

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A Low Frequency Band Watermarking with Weighted Correction in the Combined Cosine and Wavelet Transform Domain

  • Deb, Kaushik;Al-Seraj, Md. Sajib;Chong, Ui-Pil
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.13-20
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    • 2013
  • A combined DWT and DCT based watermarking technique of low frequency watermarking with weighted correction is proposed. The DWT has excellent spatial localization, frequency spread and multi-resolution characteristics, which are similar to the theoretical models of the human visual system (HVS). The DCT based watermarking techniques offer compression while DWT based watermarking techniques offer scalability. These desirable properties are used in this combined watermarking technique. In the proposed method watermark bits are embedded in the low frequency band of each DCT block of selected DWT sub-band. The weighted correction is also used to improve the imperceptibility. The extracting procedure reverses the embedding operations without the reference of the original image. Compared with the similar approach by DCT based approach and DWT based approach, the experimental results show that the proposed algorithm apparently preserves superiori mage quality and robustness under various attacks such as JPEG compression, cropping, sharping, contrast adjustments and so on.

Design and Control of Interleaved Buck Converter in High Power Applications

  • Kwon, Soon-Kurl;Saha, Bishwajit
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.199-204
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents design of interleave configured dc-dc converter for high power distributed power system applications. The multi channel interleaving buck converter with small inductance has proved to be suitable for micro-grid, requiring medium output voltages, high output currents and fast transient response. Integrated magnetic components are used to reduce the size of the converter and improve efficiency. Unlike conventional methods, the distributed approach requires no centralized control, automatically accommodates varying numbers of converter cells, and is highly tolerant of subsystem failures. A general methodology for achieving distributed interleaving is proposed, along with a specific implementation approach. The design and simulation verification of switching frequency 10 kHz system is presented with interleaved clocking of the converter cells. The simulation (simulated by PSIM 6.1) results corroborate the analytical predictions and demonstrate the tremendous benefits of the distributed interleaving approach.

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A Study on a New Approach to Robust Control and Torque Control Response Analysis of Manufacturing robot Based on Monitoring Simulator for Smart Factory

  • Kim, Hee-Jin;Kim, Dong-Ho;Jang, Gi-Won;Gu, Byeong-Hwa;Han, Sung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.24 no.4_1
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    • pp.397-409
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    • 2021
  • This study proposes a new approach to implimentation of robust control and torque control response analysis based on monitoring simulator for smart factory. According to the physical properties of a flexible manipulator, a two time-scale approach, namely, singular perturbation ap proach, is further utilized for thorough analysis and general controller design. It is shown that asymptotic motional tracking can be effectively achieved, whereas the force regulation errors can be made arbitrarily small. For demonstration of the proposed technology performance, experiments of a eight joint flexible manipulator are performed for the proposed control method, and the reliability of proposed control results are illustrated based on monitoring simulator.

Integration of Multi-scale CAM and Attention for Weakly Supervised Defects Localization on Surface Defective Apple

  • Nguyen Bui Ngoc Han;Ju Hwan Lee;Jin Young Kim
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.12 no.9
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    • pp.45-59
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    • 2023
  • Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) is a task of localizing an object in an image using only image-level labels. Previous studies have followed the conventional class activation mapping (CAM) pipeline. However, we reveal the current CAM approach suffers from problems which cause original CAM could not capture the complete defects features. This work utilizes a convolutional neural network (CNN) pretrained on image-level labels to generate class activation maps in a multi-scale manner to highlight discriminative regions. Additionally, a vision transformer (ViT) pretrained was treated to produce multi-head attention maps as an auxiliary detector. By integrating the CNN-based CAMs and attention maps, our approach localizes defective regions without requiring bounding box or pixel-level supervision during training. We evaluate our approach on a dataset of apple images with only image-level labels of defect categories. Experiments demonstrate our proposed method aligns with several Object Detection models performance, hold a promise for improving localization.

A Case study of engineering comprehensive design subject incorporating convergence with art (예술과의 융합을 접목한 공학 종합설계 교과목 사례연구)

  • Huh, Wonwhoi
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.195-201
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    • 2022
  • The core of the Fourth Industrial revolution, the topic of the 21st century, lies in the convergence of various technologies that are developing to the cutting edge. Therefore, convergence education is essential to solve problems from various perspectives. Above all, in order to solve the complex problem arising from the contact point between humans and technology in the future society, it was considered that insight through a humanities and artistic approach was necessary. Now, universities are trying to run a multidisciplinary comprehensive design to adapt to the new digital environment. In this study, an operation case of an engineering comprehensive design subject incorporating art operated by a researcher was described. The researcher presented an art convergence curriculum in a comprehensive design subject by applying 1. problem recognition and definition, 2. idea derivation and evaluation, 3. project development, 4. presentation, and demonstration process operation methods. Through this study, it is meaningful that it presented a method of operating art convergence in engineering comprehensive design subjects by allowing students to attempt an artistic aesthetic and emotional approach to project development.

Developing Measures for Empirical Research on Economic Activities of the Convergence Generation: Exploratory Approach

  • Park, Ki-Ho
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2011
  • Ultimately, this research will focus on the activity traits of future customers in the convergence age. To accomplish that, firstly, researcher develop measures for assessing the convergence level of digital devices and digital services. Next, this will investigate the behavioral traits of people who use specific devices or services on the internet or mobile networks. This study proposed five convergence measures each for devices and services. For digital devices, measures such as converged functions, accessibility to network, portability, immediate communicability, and expandibility of functions were utilized. For digital measures such as scope of users, newness, social network level, ease-of use on mobile networks, and expandibility of information were used. We believe that the research results can provide insights for those wishing to explore the convergence level of devices and services and those developing high-level converged devices and digital services.

Computational Methods for Detection of Multiple Outliers in Nonlinear Regression

  • Myung-Wook Kahng
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 1996
  • The detection of multiple outliers in nonlinear regression models can be computationally not feasible. As a compromise approach, we consider the use of simulated annealing algorithm, an approximate approach to combinatorial optimization. We show that this method ensures convergence and works well in locating multiple outliers while reducing computational time.

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A Gaussian Approach in Stabilizing Outputs of Electrical Control Systems (전기제어 설비의 출력 안정화를 위한 가우시안 접근법)

  • Basnet, Barun;Bang, Jun-ho;Ryu, In-ho;Kim, Tae-hyeong
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.67 no.11
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    • pp.1562-1569
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    • 2018
  • Sensor readings always have a certain degree of randomness and fuzziness due to its intrinsic property, other electronic devices in the circuitry, wires and the rapidly changing environment. In an electrical control system, such readings will bring instability in the system and other undesired events especially if the signal hovers around the threshold. This paper proposes a Gaussian-based statistical approach in stabilizing the output through sampling the sensor data and automatic tuning the threshold to the range of multiple standard deviations. It takes advantage of the Central limit theorem and its properties assuming that a large number of sensor data samples will eventually converge to a Gaussian distribution. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in completely stabilizing the outputs over known filtering algorithms like Exponential smoothing and Kalman Filter.

A Study of Oriental Medicinal Convergence Approach for Natural Seasoning (Several Sesame Seeds) (천연조미료(깨류)의 동양의학적 융합접근방법 고찰)

  • Min, Young-Sil
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.9 no.8
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    • pp.164-169
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    • 2019
  • This study was examined that natural seasoning is related to health care and disease prevention through oriental medicinal theory. A typical oriental medicinal theory is the princeple of win-win cooperation between Yin-Yang and Five elements, the old belief is that our body moves in harmony with Yin-Yang and Five elements. From the records traditional books and papers, we would look at the affinity and nutritional relationship between Five taste(Sweet, Salt, Sour, Bitter, Heat and Spicy) and the body with "Sesame" Therefore, several type of Sesame which is represented by natural seasoning, through intake of Five taste because of body affinity, is expected to prolong health life span.