• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.129-135
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• 2016

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for image-based maritime obstacle detection using global sparsity potentials (GSPs), in which "global" refers to the entire sea area. The horizon line is detected first to segment the sea area as the region of interest (ROI). Considering the geometric relationship between the camera and the sea surface, variable-size image windows are adopted to sample patches in the ROI. Then, each patch is represented by its texture feature, and its average distance to all the other patches is taken as the value of its GSP. Thereafter, patches with a smaller GSP are clustered as the sea surface, and patches with a higher GSP are taken as the obstacle candidates. Finally, the candidates far from the mean feature of the sea surface are selected and aggregated as the obstacles. Experimental results verify that the proposed approach is highly accurate as compared to other methods, such as the traditional feature space reclustering method and a state-of-the-art saliency detection method.

• 천문학회보
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.45.2-45.2
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• 2021

Merging of two supermassive black holes would generate gravitational waves that can be detected by the Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) in the nHz band. In order to assess the plausibility of GW detection with PTA and to develop the data analysis scheme, it is important to understand the underlying properties of black holes and black hole binaries. In this work, we present mass and redshift distributions of black hole mergers using the Horizon Run 5 (HR5) data and discuss their implications for GW detection. We find a general conjecture about the black hole merger tree is true with the Horizon Run 5. For example, a) relatively lighter black holes merge at higher redshifts and b) binary mergers do contribute to the formation of more massive black holes toward low redshifts. We also present our plan to use the black hole properties extracted from the HR5 data in order to generate simulated GW signals to be injected into actual PTA data analysis pipelines. Mass and distance obtained from the HR5 would be key ingredients to generate a more realistic PTA source data set.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.643-667
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• 2010

The classical flexibility difference method detects damage by observing the difference of conventional deflection flexibility matrices between pre- and post-damaged states of a structure. This method is not able to identify multiple damage scenarios, and its criteria to identify damage depend upon the boundary conditions of structures. The key point behind the inability and dependence is revealed in this study. A more feasible flexibility for damage detection, the Angle-between-String-and-Horizon (ASH) flexibility, is proposed. The physical meaning of the new flexibility is given, and synthesis of the new flexibility matrix by modal frequencies and translational mode shapes is formulated. The damage indicators are extracted from the difference of ASH flexibility matrices between the pre- and post-damaged structures. One feature of the ASH flexibility is that the components in the ASH flexibility matrix are associated with elements instead of Nodes or DOFs. Therefore, the damage indicators based on the ASH flexibility are mapped to structural elements directly, and thus they can pinpoint the damaged elements, which is appealing to damage detection for complex structures. In addition, the change in the ASH flexibility caused by damage is not affected by boundary conditions, which simplifies the criteria to identify damage. Moreover, the proposed method can determine relatively the damage severity. Because the proposed damage indicator of an element mainly reflects the deflection change within the element itself, which significantly reduces the influence of the damage in one element on the damage indicators of other damaged elements, the proposed method can identify multiple damage locations. The viability of the proposed approach has been demonstrated by numerical examples and experimental tests on a cantilever beam and a simply supported beam.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.621-626
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• 2015

This paper presents a camera calibration method in order to estimate the lane detection and inter-vehicle distance estimation system for an automotive safety driving system. In order to implement the lane detection and vision-based inter-vehicle distance estimation to the embedded navigations or black box systems, it is necessary to consider the computation time and algorithm complexity. The process of camera calibration estimates the horizon, the position of the car's hood and the lane width for extraction of region of interest (ROI) from input image sequences. The precision of the calibration method is very important to the lane detection and inter-vehicle distance estimation. The proposed calibration method consists of three main steps: 1) horizon area determination; 2) estimation of the car's hood area; and 3) estimation of initial lane width. Various experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제81권2호
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• pp.177-182
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• 1992

미국 Maine 주 저지대 가문비나무-젓나무 경제림 지역의 spodosol 토양의 2개의 토심(O와 B층)에서 토양공기 $CO_2$ 농도를 측정하였다. $CO_2$ 농도 측정은 Draeger 직독(直讀) chromatography법과 가스주입기를 이용한 gas chromatography 법의 두 가지 방법을 사용하였다. 1991년 생육기 동안의 토양공기 $CO_2$ 농도(%)의 평균값은 Draeger법으로 측정된 O층의 0.11로부터 gas chromatography법으로 측정된 B층의 0.29사이의 분포를 보였다. B층과 O층 모두에서 Draeger법에 의한 토양공기 $CO_2$의 농도가 gas chromatography법으로 측정된 값보다 낮은 수치를 보였다. 두 방법에 의해 측정된 값들 상호간에는 두 층 모두에서 고도의 상관관계 (p<0.01)를 보였으며, 시간변화에 따른 변화 유형 역시 평행적인 관계를 보여 주었다. 토양공기 $CO_2$ 농도는 토양온도와 고도의 정의 상관관계를 보였는데 상관계수의 값은 선발된 측정방법 및 토층에 따라 0.13-0.32의 값을 나타냈다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose the horizontal line detection using the Haar-like features and linear regression in infrared images. In the marine environment horizon image is very useful information on a variety of systems. In the proposed method Haar-like features it was noted that the standard deviation be calculated in real time on a static area. Based on the pixel position, calculating the standard deviation of the around area in real time and, if the reaction is to filter out the largest pixel can get the energy map of the area containing the straight horizontal line. In order to select a horizontal line of pixels from the energy map, we applied the linear regression, calculating a linear fit to the transverse horizontal line across the image to select the candidate optimal horizontal. The proposed method was carried out in a horizontal line detecting real infrared image experiment for day and night, it was confirmed the excellent detection results than the legacy methods.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제24권7호
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• pp.1266-1275
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• 2019

With increasing criminal rates and number of CCTVs, much attention has been paid to intelligent surveillance system on the horizon. Object detection and tracking algorithms have been developed to reduce false alarms and accurately help security agents immediately response to undesirable changes in video clips such as crimes and accidents. Many studies have proposed a variety of algorithms to improve accuracy of detecting and tracking objects outside tunnels. The proposed methods might not work well in a tunnel because of low illuminance significantly susceptible to tail and warning lights of driving vehicles. The detection performance has rarely been tested against the tunnel environment. This study investigated a feasibility of object detection and tracking in an actual tunnel environment by utilizing YOLOv3 and Kernelized Correlation Filter. We tested 40 actual video clips to differentiate pedestrians and motorcycles to evaluate the performance of our algorithm. The experimental results showed significant difference in detection between pedestrians and motorcycles without false positive rates. Our findings are expected to provide a stepping stone of developing efficient detection algorithms suitable for tunnel environment and encouraging other researchers to glean reliable tracking data for smarter and safer City.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.117-126
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• 2020

해상 객체 인식은 자율운항선박(MASS)의 지능형 보조 시스템으로써, 선장이 육안으로 해상 주변의 충돌 위험성이 있는 부유물을 확인하던 정보를 컴퓨터를 통해 자동으로 인식하여 사람이 확인하는 방법과 유사한 정확도로 인지하는 방법을 말한다. 선박 주변의 물체를 인식하는 방법으로 기존에는 레이더나 소나와 같은 장치로부터 수집된 정보를 통해 확인하였지만, 인공지능의 기술이 발달하면서 선박 지능형 CCTV를 통해 운항 항로에 있는 다양한 부유물을 인식하는 것이 가능하다. 하지만, 자율 선박의 다양한 요구사항과 복잡성 때문에 영상 데이터의 처리속도가 느려지게 된다면 원활한 서비스 지원은 물론 안전성도 보장할 수 없게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하고자 본 논문에서는 해상 객체를 검출하는 데 있어 영상 데이터의 연산량을 최소화하여 처리속도를 높이기 위한 연구를 진행하였다. 해상 객체 인식의 관심 영역을 확보하기 위해서는 일반적으로 수평선을 찾는데 기존 연구들은 허프 변환 알고리즘을 활용하지만 본 논문에서는 속도를 개선하기 위해 이진화 알고리즘을 최적화하여 실제 객체의 위치와 유사한 영역을 찾는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 또한, 제안하는 방법의 유용성을 증명하기 위해 딥러닝 CNN을 활용하여 해상 객체 인식 시스템을 구현함으로써 알고리즘의 성능을 평가하였다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 기존 방법의 인식 정확도를 유지하면서 약 4배 이상의 빠른 성능을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송∙미디어공학회 2019년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.233-234
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• 2019

We propose a novel algorithm for detecting ship wake trails in optical images of the maritime environment. The proposed algorithm first removes the sky region by localizing the horizon to prevent false wake trails detection. Then, a feature map is computed by employing brightness distortion and chromatic distortion. The feature map is thresholded to obtain a rough estimate of wake trails. Finally, the wake map is refined using the shape prior information. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively detect wake trails in images.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.223-242
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• 2015

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have emerged as a novel solution to many of the challenges of structural health monitoring (SHM) in civil engineering structures. While research projects using WSNs are ongoing worldwide, implementations of WSNs on full-scale structures are limited. In this study, a WSN is deployed on a full-scale 17.3m-long, 11-bay highway sign support structure to investigate the ability to use vibration response data to detect damage induced in the structure. A multi-level damage detection strategy is employed for this structure: the Angle-between-String-and-Horizon (ASH) flexibility-based algorithm as the Level I and the Axial Strain (AS) flexibility-based algorithm as the Level II. For the proposed multi-level damage detection strategy, a coarse resolution Level I damage detection will be conducted first to detect the damaged region(s). Subsequently, a fine resolution Level II damage detection will be conducted in the damaged region(s) to locate the damaged element(s). Several damage cases are created on the full-scale highway sign support structure to validate the multi-level detection strategy. The multi-level damage detection strategy is shown to be successful in detecting damage in the structure in these cases.