• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.179-193
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• 2023

This study explores an alternative to the existing centralized process for data anomaly detection in modern Internet of Things (IoT)-based structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. An edge intelligence framework is proposed for the early detection and classification of various data anomalies facilitating quality enhancement of acquired data before transmitting to a central system. State-of-the-art deep neural network pruning techniques are investigated and compared aiming to significantly reduce the network size so that it can run efficiently on resource-constrained edge devices such as wireless smart sensors. Further, depthwise separable convolution (DSC) is invoked, the integration of which with advanced structural pruning methods exhibited superior compression capability. Last but not least, quantization-aware training (QAT) is adopted for faster processing and lower memory and power consumption. The proposed edge intelligence framework will eventually lead to reduced network overload and latency. This will enable intelligent self-adaptation strategies to be employed to timely deal with a faulty sensor, minimizing the wasteful use of power, memory, and other resources in wireless smart sensors, increasing efficiency, and reducing maintenance costs for modern smart SHM systems. This study presents a theoretical foundation for the proposed framework, the validation of which through actual field trials is a scope for future work.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제25권8호
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• pp.1075-1084
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• 2022

Internet of Things(IoT) has become a key available technology for efficiently implementing device to device(D2D) services in various domains such as smart home, healthcare, smart city, agriculture, energy, logistics, and transportation. A lightweight publish/subscribe(Pub/Sub) messaging protocol not only establishes data dissemination pattern but also supports connectivity between IoT devices and their applications. Also, a Pub/Sub broker is deployed to facilitate data exchange among IoT devices. A scalable edge-based publish/subscribe (Pub/Sub) broker overlay networks support latency-sensitive IoT applications. In this paper, we design a hypercube grid quorum(HGQ) for distributed Pub/Sub systems based IoT applications. In designing HGQ, the network of hypercube structures suitable for the publish/subscribe model is built in the edge layer, and the proposed HGQ is designed by embedding a mesh overlay network in the hypercube. As their applications, we propose an HGQ-based mechansim for dissemination of the data of sensors or the message/event of IoT devices in IoT environments. The performance of HGQ is evaluated by analytical models. As the results, the latency and load balancing of applications based on the distributed Pub/Sub system using HGQ are improved.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.122-131
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• 2008

For B-mode ultrasound images, we propose an image enhancement algorithm based on a multi-resolution approach, which consists of edge enhancing and noise reducing procedures. Edge enhancement processing is applied sequentially to coarse-to-fine resolution images obtained from wavelet-transformed data. In each resolution, the structural features of each pixel are examined through eigen analysis. Then, if a pixel belongs to an edge region, we perform two-step filtering: that is, directional smoothing is conducted along the tangential direction of the edge to improve continuity and directional sharpening is conducted along the normal direction to enhance the contrast. In addition, speckle noise is alleviated by proper attenuation of the wavelet coefficients of the homogeneous regions at each band. This region-based speckle-reduction scheme is differentiated from other methods that are based on the magnitude statistics of the wavelet coefficients. The proposed algorithm enhances edges regardless of changes in the resolution of an image, and the algorithm efficiently reduces speckle noise without affecting the sharpness of the edge. Hence, compared with existing algorithms, the proposed algorithm considerably improves the subjective image quality without providing any noticeable artifacts.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.559-575
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• 2023

3D human pose estimation is widely applied in various fields, including action recognition, sports analysis, and human-computer interaction. 3D human pose estimation has achieved significant progress with the introduction of convolutional neural network (CNN). Recently, several researches have proposed the use of multiview approaches to avoid occlusions in single-view approaches. However, as the number of cameras increases, a 3D pose estimation system relying on a CNN may lack in computational resources. In addition, when a single host system uses multiple cameras, the data transition speed becomes inadequate owing to bandwidth limitations. To address this problem, we propose a distributed real-time 3D pose estimation framework based on asynchronous multiple cameras. The proposed framework comprises a central server and multiple edge devices. Each multiple-edge device estimates a 2D human pose from its view and sendsit to the central server. Subsequently, the central server synchronizes the received 2D human pose data based on the timestamps. Finally, the central server reconstructs a 3D human pose using geometrical triangulation. We demonstrate that the proposed framework increases the percentage of detected joints and successfully estimates 3D human poses in real-time.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송∙미디어공학회 2021년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.204-207
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• 2021

LiDAR 장비 및 SfM 과 MVS 방법을 이용하여 생성된 point cloud 와 mesh 에는 항상 노이즈가 포함되어 있다. 이러한 노이즈를 제거하기 위해선 노이즈와 edge 를 효과적으로 구분해낼 수 있어야 한다. 노이즈를 제거하기 위해 mesh 로부터 edge 를 먼저 구분해낸 후 edge 에 해당하는 영역과 평면에 해당하는 영역에 서로 다른 필터를 사용하는 많은 연구들이 있지만 강한 노이즈가 포함된 mesh 에서는 edge를 잘 구분해내지 못하는 문제가 존재한다. 이러한 방법들은 mesh 로부터 edge 를 구분해내는 알고리즘의 성능이 노이즈를 제거하는 전체 알고리즘의 성능에 큰 영향을 주기 때문에 강한 노이즈에서도 edge 를 잘 구분해낼 수 있는 알고리즘이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 PCA 와 graph-cut 을 이용하여 강한 노이즈가 포함된 mesh 에서 edge 영역을 추출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.62-65
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• 2018

This paper comes out with the study on sensing data collection strategy in a Software-Defined Mobile Edge vehicular networking. The two cooperative data dissemination are Direct Vehicular cloud mode and edge cell trajectory prediction decision mode. In direct vehicular cloud, the vehicle observe its neighboring vehicles and sets up vehicular cloud for cooperative sensing data collection, the data collection output can be transmitted from vehicles participating in the cooperative sensing data collection computation to the vehicle on which the sensing data collection request originate through V2V communication. The vehicle on which computation originate will reassemble the computation out-put and send to the closest RSU. The SDMEVN (Software Defined Mobile Edge Vehicular Network) Controller determines how much effort the sensing data collection request requires and calculates the number of RSUs required to support coverage of one RSU to the other. We set up a simulation scenario based on realistic traffic and communication features and demonstrate the scalability of the proposed solution.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.293-301
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• 2023

With the advancement of artificial intelligence and its various use cases, accessing it through edge computing environments is gaining traction. However, due to the nature of edge computing environments, efficient management and optimization of clusters distributed in different geographical locations is considered a major challenge. To address these issues, this paper proposes a centralization and automation tool called KubEVC-Agent based on Kubernetes. KubEVC-Agent centralizes the deployment, operation, and management of edge clusters and presents a use case of the data transformation for optimizing intra-cluster communication. This paper describes the components of KubEVC-Agent, its working principle, and experimental results to verify its effectiveness.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권8호
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• pp.1103-1110
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• 2022

AI 관련 산업의 급속한 발전으로 인해 무수히 많은 엣지 디바이스가 실세계에서 동작되고 있고, 이들 디바이스로 구성된 스마트 공간에서 발생하는 데이터가 상상을 초월함으로, 엣지 디비이스가 처리하는 것이 점점 어려워지고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 EdgeCPS 기술이 등장하게 되었다. EdgeCPS는 엣지 디바이스와 엣지 서버간 연동과 자원 증강 및 기능 증강을 통하여 AI 응용 서비스를 포함한 다양한 응용 서비스의 원활한 수행을 지원하기 위한 기술이다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 EdgeCPS 플랫폼에 적용 가능한 지식 공유 그래프 기반의 컴포넌트화된 AI 응용 지원 시스템을 제안한다. 지식 공유 그래프는 AI 응용 작성에 필수적인 요소인 학습데이터, 학습된모델, 학습알고리즘, 디바이스 등에 대한 정보를 효과적으로 저장할 수 있도록 설계된다. 그리고 EdgeCPS 플랫폼의 지원 하에서 자원증강 및 기능증강을 손쉽게 변경할 수 있도록 AI 응용이 컴포넌트화 되어 동작한다. AI 응용 지원 시스템은 사용자가 손쉽게 응용을 작성할 수 있고 테스트 해 볼 수 있도록 지식 공유 그래프와 연동되고, 응용에 대한 파이프라인을 통해서 응용의 실행 양상을 사용자에게 시각화를 해 준다.

• 한국데이터정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국데이터정보과학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.197-201
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• 2004

We describe a new edge detector based on the robust rank-order (RRO) test which is a useful alternative to Wilcoxon test, using $r{\times}r$ window for detecting edges of all possible orientations in noisy images. Some experiments of statistical edge detectors based on the Wilcoxon test and T test with our RRO detector are carried out on synthetic and real images corrupted by both Gaussian and impulse noise. We also implement these edge detectors using Java on the Web.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.324-333
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• 2001

The Differentiated Services (Diffserv) framework has been proposed by the IETF as a simple service structure that can provide different Quality of Service (QoS) to different classes of packets in IP networks. IP packets are classified into one of a limited number of service classes, and are marked in the packet header for easy classification and differentiated treatments when transferred within a Diffserv domain. The Diffserv framework defines simple and efficient QoS differentiation mechanisms for the Internet. However, the original Diffserv concept does not provide a complete QoS management framework. Since traffic flows in IP networks are unidirectional from one network point to the other and routing paths and traffic demand get dynamically altered, it is important to monitor end-to-end traffic status, as well as traffic status in a single node. This paper suggests a distributed QoS monitoring method that collects the statistical data of each service class in every Diffserv router and calculates edge-to-edge QoS of the aggregated IP flows by combining routing topology and traffic status. A format modeling of edge-to-edge Diffserv flows and algorithms for aggregating edge-to-edge QoS is presented. Also an SNMP-based QoS management prototype system for Diffserv networks is presented, which validates our QoS management framework and demonstrates useful service management functionality.