• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1035-1041
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• 2016

Internal cracks in products are invisible and can lead to fatal crashes or damage. Since X-rays can penetrate materials and be attenuated according to the material’s thickness and density, they have rapidly become the accepted technology for non-destructive inspection of internal cracks. This paper presents a robust crack filter based on local gray level variation and multiscale analysis for automatic detection of cracks in X-ray images. The proposed filter takes advantage of the image gray level and its local variations to detect cracks in the X-ray image. To overcome the problems of image noise and the non-uniform intensity of the X-ray image, a new method of estimating the local gray level variation is proposed in this paper. In order to detect various sizes of crack, this paper proposes using different neighboring distances to construct an image pyramid for multiscale analysis. By use of local gray level variation and multiscale analysis, the proposed crack filter is able to detect cracks of various sizes in X-ray images while contending with the problems of noise and non-uniform intensity. Experimental results show that the proposed crack filter outperforms the Gaussian model based crack filter and the LBP model based method in terms of detection accuracy, false detection ratio and processing speed.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2003년도 사면안정학술발표회
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• pp.13-22
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• 2003

Train speed and infiltration of rainfall causes railway embankment to be unstable and may result in failure. Therefore, the variation in the safety factor of railway embankment should be analyzed as the function of rainfall intensity, rainfall duration, and train speed and the study is accomplished using numerical analysis program. Based on unsaturated soil engineering, the variables in the shear strength function and permeability function are also defined and used for the numerical model for evaluation of railway embankments under rainfall. As a result of the study, in order to secure the safety of train under rainfall, the variation in the safety factor of railway embankment is predicted as the function of rainfall intensity, duration time and the train load as a function of train speed. It is possible to ensure the safety of train under rainfall. Thereafter, the feasibility of the rail-transport operation control with engineering basis was established.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.753-760
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• 1999

Experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of the initial turbulent intensity on the flow and heat transfer characteristics for a two-dimensional impinging jet. A square rod was installed at the nozzle exit to increase initial turbulent intensity. A hot wire probe and thermochromic liquid crystal technique were used to measure the turbulent intensity and the surface temperature. All measurements were made over a range of nozzle-to-plate distance from 1 to 10 at Re=20,000. When the rod is not installed, the maximum stagnation point Nusselt number is occurred at H/B=9. A higher initial turbulent intensity enhanced the heat transfer on the surface. A correlation between stagnation point Nusselt number and turbulent intensity are presented.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.462-470
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• 2020

Objective: To demonstrate that human visual illusion can contribute to sub-endocardial dark rim artifact in contrast-enhanced myocardial perfusion magnetic resonance images. Materials and Methods: Numerical phantoms were generated to simulate the first-passage of contrast agent in the heart, and rendered in conventional gray scale as well as in color scale with reduced luminance variation. Cardiac perfusion images were acquired from two healthy volunteers, and were displayed by the same gray and color scales used in the numerical study. Before and after k-space windowing, the left ventricle (LV)-myocardium boarders were analyzed visually and quantitatively through intensity profiles perpendicular the boarders. Results: k-space windowing yielded monotonically decreasing signal intensity near the LV-myocardium boarder in the phantom images, as confirmed by negative finite difference values near the board ranging -1.07 to -0.14. However, the dark band still appears, which is perceived by visual illusion. Dark rim is perceived in the in-vivo images after k-space windowing that removed the quantitative signal dip, suggesting that the perceived dark rim is a visual illusion. The perceived dark rim is stronger at peak LV enhancement than the peak myocardial enhancement, due to the larger intensity difference between LV and myocardium. In both numerical phantom and in-vivo images, the illusory dark band is not visible in the color map due to reduced luminance variation. Conclusion: Visual illusion is another potential cause of dark rim artifact in contrast-enhanced myocardial perfusion MRI as demonstrated by illusory rim perceived in the absence of quantitative intensity undershoot.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.519-528
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• 2012

음성구간을 검출하는 일반적인 방법은 음향신호로부터 특징값을 추출하여 판별식을 거치는 것이다. 그러나 잡음이 많은 환경에서 그 성능은 당연히 저하되며, 이 경우 영상신호를 이용하거나 영상과 음성을 동시에 사용함으로써 성능향상을 도모할 수 있다. 영상신호를 이용하여 음성구간을 검출하는 기존 방법들에서는 액티브 어피어런스 모델, 옵티컬 플로우, 밝기 변화 등 주로 하나의 특징값을 이용하고 있다. 그러나 음성구간의 참값은 음향신호에 의해 결정되므로 한 가지의 영상정보만으로는 음성구간을 검출하는데 한계를 보이고 있다. 본 논문에서는 입술 영역의 옵티컬 플로우와 밝기 변화 두 가지 영상정보로부터 특징값을 추출하고, 추출된 특징값들을 결합하여 음성구간을 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안하고자 한다. 또한, 음성구간 검출 알고리즘이 다른 시스템의 전처리로 활용되는 경우에 적은 계산량만으로 수행되는 것이 바람직하므로, 통계적 모델링에 의한 방법보다는 추출된 특징값으로부터 간단한 대수적 연산만으로 스코어를 산정하여 문턱값과 비교하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 입술 영역 검출을 위해서는 얼굴에서 가장 두드러진 특징점을 갖는 눈을 먼저 검출한 후, 얼굴의 구조와 밝기값을 이용하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 실험 결과 본 논문에서 제안하는 두 가지 특징값을 결합한 음성구간 검출 알고리즘이 하나의 특징값만을 이용했을 때보다 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.117-126
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• 2006

지상에서 우주선 측정기(NM, Neutron Monitor)로 관측되는 우주선 세기의 일변화는 일평균 값의 $1{\sim}2%$ 정도의 진폭을 갖는 사인곡선의 형태를 보인다. 본 연구는 NM 관측소에서 우주선 일변화의 최대 및 최소 세기가 관측되는 지방시 변화의 통계적 경향 분석을 수행하였다. 우주선 일변화 최대 및 최소 세기 시각의 분포에 영향을 주는 우주선 중성자 관측소의 위치(cut-off rigidity)와 태양활동도의 영향을 분석해 보기 위해서 저위도 지방의 Haleakala(위도: 20.72N, cut-off rigidity: 12.91Gev)와 고위도 지방의 Oulu(위도: 65.05N, cut-off rigidity: 0.81Gev) 우주선 중성자 관측소의 1996년(태양활동 극소기) 및 2000년(태양활동 극대기) 우주선 관측 자료를 분석하였다. 태양활동 극대기의 우주선 일변화 최대 및 최소 세기 시각은 태양활동 극소기에 비해 약 $2{\sim}3$시간 정도 늦은 시각에 나타난다. 우주선 중성자 관측소의 위치 즉 위도별 분포(rigidity의 크기)에 따른 영향을 살펴보면, cut-off. rigidity가 Haleakala보다 작은 Oulu에서 우주선 일변화 최대 및 최소 세기 시각이 약 $2{\sim}3$시간 정도 늦게 나타나며, 이러한 현상은 극대기에 더욱 뚜렷하게 나타났다. 태양활동에 따른 행성간 자기장 세기의 변화와 위도에 따른 cut-off rigidity의 크기에 따라 우주선 세기 일변화 위상이 결정된다고 볼 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국통신학회 1988년도 추계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.114-117
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• 1988

In mobile radio communication system involving geostationary satellites the field intensity of electromagnetic wave varies with frequency shape and location of an obstacle between a tramamitter and a receiver. In this paper a ring type obstacle between the propagation paths is presented. On the basis of Fresnel diffraction theory, the field intensity varying with ring-type obstacle’s radius is obtained by computer simulation.]

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.113-121
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• 1996

The arc sensor has been most widely used for weld seam tracking through welding current or voltage variation. In this work, the relation between the arc light intensity and welding condition is investigated using heat balance in the Plasma for its possible application to seam tracking in the GMAW process. The arc light intensity is derived to be the function of the arc length and welding current Experiments are carried out to verify the proposed heat balance model. Performances of least square and integration methods to process the signals for seam tracking are compared experimentally. Predicted arc light intensity shows reasonably good agreement with experimental results. The weld seam is successfully tracked through the arc light intensity. The least square and integration methods demonstrate almost same performance of seam tracking with $CO_2$gas shielding.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회논문집A
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• pp.176-181
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• 2000

Stress intensity factors for a rigid line inclusion tying along a bimaterial interface are calculated by the boundary element method with the multiregion and double-Point techniques. The formula between the stress intensity factors and the inclusion surface stresses are derived. The numerical values of the stress intensity factors for the bimaterial interface rigid line inclusion in the infinite body are proved to be in good agreement within 3% when compared with the previous exact solutions. In the finite bimaterial systems, the stress intensity factors for the center and edge rigid line inclusions at interface are computed with the variation of the rigid line inclusion length and the shear modulus ratio under the biaxial and uniaxial loading conditions.

• 천문학회보
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.58-58
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• 2002