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Adaptive Kernel Estimation for Learning Algorithms based on Euclidean Distance between Error Distributions (오차분포 유클리드 거리 기반 학습법의 커널 사이즈 적응)

  • Kim, Namyong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.561-566
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    • 2021
  • The optimum kernel size for error-distribution estimation with given error samples cannot be used in the weight adjustment of minimum Euclidean distance between error distributions (MED) algorithms. In this paper, a new adaptive kernel estimation method for convergence enhancement of MED algorithms is proposed. The proposed method uses the average rate of change in error power with respect to a small interval of the kernel width for weight adjustment of the MED learning algorithm. The proposed kernel adjustment method is applied to experiments in communication channel compensation, and performance improvement is demonstrated. Unlike the conventional method yielding a very small kernel calculated through optimum estimation of error distribution, the proposed method converges to an appropriate kernel size for weight adjustment of the MED algorithm. The experimental results confirm that the proposed kernel estimation method for MED can be considered a method that can solve the sensitivity problem from choosing an appropriate kernel size for the MED algorithm.

EBM E-learning: Feasible and Effective for Occupational Physicians in Different Countries

  • Hugenholtz, Nathalie I.R.;Slutter, Judith K.;Van Dijk, Frank J.H.;Nieuwenhuijsen, Karen
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.199-208
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    • 2012
  • Objectives: Although evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a useful method for integrating evidence into the decision-making process of occupational physicians, occupational physicians lack EBM knowledge and skills, and do not have the time to learn the EBM method. In order to enable them to educate themselves at the time and place they prefer, we designed an electronic EBM course. We studied the feasibility and utility of the course as well as its effectiveness in increasing EBM knowledge, skills, and behaviour. Methods: Occupational physicians from various countries were included in a within-subjects study. Measurements were conducted on participants' EBM knowledge, skills, behaviour, and determinants of behaviour at baseline, directly after finishing the course and 2 months later (n = 36). The feasibility and utility of the course were evaluated directly after the course (n = 42). Results: The course is applicable as an introductory course on EBM for occupational physicians in various countries. The course is effective in enhancing EBM knowledge and self-efficacy in practising EBM. No significant effect was found on EBM skills, behaviour, and determinants of behaviour. After the course, more occupational physicians use the international journals to solve a case. Conclusion: An electronic introductory EBM course is suitable for occupational physicians. Although it is an effective method for increasing EBM knowledge, it does not seem effective in improving skills and behaviour. We recommend integrating e-learning courses with blended learning, where it can be used side by side with other educational methods that are effective in changing behaviour.

The Role of Innovative Activities in Training Students Using Computer Technologies

  • Minenok, Antonina;Donets, Ihor;Telychko, Tetiana;Hud, Hanna;Smoliak, Pavlo;Kurchatova, Angelika;Kuchai, Tetiana
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 2022
  • Innovation is considered as an implemented innovation in education - in the content, methods, techniques and forms of educational activity and personality education (methods, technologies), in the content and forms of organizing the management of the educational system, as well as in the organizational structure of educational institutions, in the means of training and education and in approaches to social services in education, distance and multimedia learning, which significantly increases the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the educational process. The classification of currently known pedagogical technologies that are most often used in practice is shown. The basis of the innovative activity of a modern teacher is the formation of an innovative program-methodical complex in the discipline. Along with programmatic and content provision of disciplines, the use of informational tools and their didactic properties comes first. It combines technical capabilities - computer and video technology with live communication between the lecturer and the audience. In pedagogical innovation, the principles reflecting specific laws and regularities of the implementation of innovative processes are singled out. All principles are elements of a complex system of organization and management of innovative activities in the field of education and training. They closely interact with each other, which enhances the effect of each of them due to the synergistic effect. To improve innovative activities in the training of students, today computer technologies are widely used in pedagogy as a science, as well as directly in the practice of the pedagogical process. They have gained the most popularity in such activities as distance learning, online learning, assistance in the education management system, development of programs and virtual textbooks in various subjects, searching for information on the network for the educational process, computer testing of students' knowledge, creation of electronic libraries, formation of a unified scientific electronic environment, publication of virtual magazines and newspapers on pedagogical topics, teleconferences, expansion of international cooperation in the field of Internet education. The article considers computer technologies as the main building material for the entire society. In the modern world, there is a need to prepare a person for life in a multimedia environment. This process should be started as early as possible, because the child's contact with the media is present almost from the moment of his birth.

Development and Evaluation of a Web-Based Instructional Program on Basic Nursing Science for Nursing Students (기초간호과학교육을 위한 웹기반 학습프로그램 개발 및 효과)

  • Yoo, Ji-Soo;Hwang, Ae-Ran;Hong, Hae-Sook;Park, Mi-Jung
    • Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 2001
  • Increasing interest in computer-mediated learning technologies has prompted educators to incorporate them into many learning environments ; however, there is still little evaluative evidence to support their effectiveness. This report describes the development and evaluation of a web-based instructional program on basic nursing science for nursing students. Researcher-designed questionnaires were used to assess the characteristics of our students, and to solicit their ratings of the instructional program on ease of use, accuracy of content, clarity of content, interest, and convenience of the program, using 5-point Likert scales. The respondents indicated that the package was easy and convenient to use, with high technical quality, and of a level challenging to some but not all of the students. On-line quizzes were most highly rated. Also it was confirmed that frequent users of electronic bulletin board showed much higher achievement score than that of nonfrequent users. It was also found that the effect of cyber education was dependent on the active participation of the students. These data suggest that the use of web-based instructional program as a distance education strategy can be an effective method for nursing students and nurses.

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A Method for Measuring the Difficulty of Music Scores

  • Song, Yang-Eui;Lee, Yong Kyu
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2016
  • While the difficulty of the music can be classified by a variety of standard, conventional methods are classified by the subjective judgment based on the experience of many musicians or conductors. Music score is difficult to evaluate as there is no quantitative criterion to determine the degree of difficulty. In this paper, we propose a new classification method for determining the degree of difficulty of the music. In order to determine the degree of difficulty, we convert the score, which is expressed as a traditional music score, into electronic music sheet. Moreover, we calculate information about the elements needed to play sheet music by distance of notes, tempo, and quantifying the ease of interpretation. Calculating a degree of difficulty of the entire music via the numerical data, we suggest the difficulty evaluation of the score, and show the difficulty of music through experiments.

Application Of Electronic Information And Educational Environment In Innovative Educational Activities

  • Taranenko, Yuliia;Buhaiets, Nataliia;Kyrychenko, Rymma;Cherniak, Daryna;Mnozhynska, Ruslana;Paskevska, Iuliia
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.7
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    • pp.366-370
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    • 2022
  • The article deals with the theoretical and methodological foundations of innovative approaches in the modern education system. The issues of introducing computerized and telecommunication technologies are characterized, which allow switching to distance learning (DL), which is a promising form of the system of open education support in the modern educational process. Special attention is paid to the study of practical technologies of vocational training and the activities of a teacher and innovative areas of vocational training of students.

Supervised Rank Normalization with Training Sample Selection (학습 샘플 선택을 이용한 교사 랭크 정규화)

  • Heo, Gyeongyong;Choi, Hun;Youn, Joo-Sang
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 2015
  • Feature normalization as a pre-processing step has been widely used to reduce the effect of different scale in each feature dimension and error rate in classification. Most of the existing normalization methods, however, do not use the class labels of data points and, as a result, do not guarantee the optimality of normalization in classification aspect. A supervised rank normalization method, combination of rank normalization and supervised learning technique, was proposed and demonstrated better result than others. In this paper, another technique, training sample selection, is introduced in supervised feature normalization to reduce classification error more. Training sample selection is a common technique for increasing classification accuracy by removing noisy samples and can be applied in supervised normalization method. Two sample selection measures based on the classes of neighboring samples and the distance to neighboring samples were proposed and both of them showed better results than previous supervised rank normalization method.

Automatic hand gesture area extraction and recognition technique using FMCW radar based point cloud and LSTM (FMCW 레이다 기반의 포인트 클라우드와 LSTM을 이용한 자동 핸드 제스처 영역 추출 및 인식 기법)

  • Seung-Tak Ra;Seung-Ho Lee
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.486-493
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, we propose an automatic hand gesture area extraction and recognition technique using FMCW radar-based point cloud and LSTM. The proposed technique has the following originality compared to existing methods. First, unlike methods that use 2D images as input vectors such as existing range-dopplers, point cloud input vectors in the form of time series are intuitive input data that can recognize movement over time that occurs in front of the radar in the form of a coordinate system. Second, because the size of the input vector is small, the deep learning model used for recognition can also be designed lightly. The implementation process of the proposed technique is as follows. Using the distance, speed, and angle information measured by the FMCW radar, a point cloud containing x, y, z coordinate format and Doppler velocity information is utilized. For the gesture area, the hand gesture area is automatically extracted by identifying the start and end points of the gesture using the Doppler point obtained through speed information. The point cloud in the form of a time series corresponding to the viewpoint of the extracted gesture area is ultimately used for learning and recognition of the LSTM deep learning model used in this paper. To evaluate the objective reliability of the proposed technique, an experiment calculating MAE with other deep learning models and an experiment calculating recognition rate with existing techniques were performed and compared. As a result of the experiment, the MAE value of the time series point cloud input vector + LSTM deep learning model was calculated to be 0.262 and the recognition rate was 97.5%. The lower the MAE and the higher the recognition rate, the better the results, proving the efficiency of the technique proposed in this paper.

Managing the Reverse Extrapolation Model of Radar Threats Based Upon an Incremental Machine Learning Technique (점진적 기계학습 기반의 레이더 위협체 역추정 모델 생성 및 갱신)

  • Kim, Chulpyo;Noh, Sanguk
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.29-39
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    • 2017
  • Various electronic warfare situations drive the need to develop an integrated electronic warfare simulator that can perform electronic warfare modeling and simulation on radar threats. In this paper, we analyze the components of a simulation system to reversely model the radar threats that emit electromagnetic signals based on the parameters of the electronic information, and propose a method to gradually maintain the reverse extrapolation model of RF threats. In the experiment, we will evaluate the effectiveness of the incremental model update and also assess the integration method of reverse extrapolation models. The individual model of RF threats are constructed by using decision tree, naive Bayesian classifier, artificial neural network, and clustering algorithms through Euclidean distance and cosine similarity measurement, respectively. Experimental results show that the accuracy of reverse extrapolation models improves, while the size of the threat sample increases. In addition, we use voting, weighted voting, and the Dempster-Shafer algorithm to integrate the results of the five different models of RF threats. As a result, the final decision of reverse extrapolation through the Dempster-Shafer algorithm shows the best performance in its accuracy.

EA Study on Practical Engineering Education through the Design and Configure of Safe Running Type Drones (안전 주행형 무인기의 설계 및 제작을 통한 실천 공학 교육에 관한 연구)

  • Jo, Yeong-Myeong;Lee, Sang-Gwon;Chang, Eun-Young
    • Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.7-13
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    • 2017
  • This study will provide a practical plan of engineering education through the study of major activities connected with the production of works to accomplish the graduation conditions by completing the comprehensive design subject and the result of the performance. The designed subject is to measure the minimum safety distance during driving using the obstacle detection function of the ultrasonic sensor and to perform the avoidance algorithm based on the measurement value of the acceleration gyro sensor. It is proposed an access surveillance system that minimizes the damage of drones, surrounding objects, and people, and improves air mobility. Experimental results show that the obstacles around the drone are detected by five ultrasonic sensors and the difference of output value is applied to each motor of the drone and obstacle avoidance is confirmed. In addition, the content and level of the data for measuring the achievement of learning achievement in the engineering education certification program were used and the results were confirmed to be consistent with the description of the engineering problem level required for the graduates of 4-year engineering college.