• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.40-50
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• 2019

Considerable accuracy improvements in deep learning have recently been achieved in many applications that require large amounts of computation and expensive memory. However, recent advanced techniques for compacting and accelerating the deep learning model have been developed for deployment in lightweight devices with constrained resources. Lightweight deep learning techniques can be categorized into two schemes: lightweight deep learning algorithms (model simplification and efficient convolutional filters) in nature and transferring models into compact/small ones (model compression and knowledge distillation). In this report, we briefly summarize various lightweight deep learning techniques and possible research directions.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.346-354
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• 2024

Deep learning models require high computing power due to a substantial amount of computation. It is difficult to use them in devices with limited computing environments, such as coastal surveillance equipments. In this study, a lightweight model is constructed by analyzing the weight changes of the convolutional layers during the training process based on MobileNet and then pruning the layers that affects the model less. The performance comparison results show that the lightweight model maintains performance while reducing computational load, parameters, model size, and data processing speed. As a result of this study, an effective pruning method for constructing lightweight deep learning models and the possibility of using equipment resources efficiently through lightweight models in limited computing environments such as coastal surveillance equipments are presented.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제28권10호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 의류 디자인 도면 이미지의 글자 검출을 위한 경량화된 딥러닝 네트워크를 제안하였다. 최근 의류 디자인 산업에서 Digital Transformation의 중요성이 대두되면서, 디지털 도구를 활용한 의류 디자인 도면 작성이 강조되고 있으며, 디지털화된 의류 디자인 도면의 활용 가능성을 고려할 때, 도면에서 글자 검출과 인식이 중요한 첫 단계로 간주된다. 이 연구에서는 기존의 글자 검출 딥러닝 모델을 기반으로 의류 도면 이미지의 특수성을 고려하여 경량화된 네트워크를 설계하였으며, 별도로 수집한 의류 도면 데이터 셋을 추가하여 딥러닝 모델을 학습시켰다. 실험 결과, 제안한 딥러닝 모델은 의류 도면 이미지에서 기존 글자 검출 모델보다 약 20% 높은 성능을 보였다. 따라서 이 논문은 딥러닝 모델의 최적화와 특수한 글자 정보 검출 등의 연구를 통해 의류 디자인 분야에서의 Digital Transformation에 기여할 것으로 기대한다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.77-83
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• 2022

In this paper, the two-stage object detection approach is proposed to implement a deep learning-based label inspection system on edge computing environments. Since the label printed on the products during the production process contains important information related to the product, it is significantly to check the label information is correct. The proposed system uses the lightweight deep learning model that able to employ in the low-performance edge computing devices, and the two-stage object detection approach is applied to compensate for the low accuracy relatively. The proposed Two-Stage object detection approach consists of two object detection networks, Label Area Detection Network and Character Detection Network. Label Area Detection Network finds the label area in the product image, and Character Detection Network detects the words in the label area. Using this approach, we can detect characters precise even with a lightweight deep learning models. The SF-YOLO model applied in the proposed system is the YOLO-based lightweight object detection network designed for edge computing devices. This model showed up to 2 times faster processing time and a considerable improvement in accuracy, compared to other YOLO-based lightweight models such as YOLOv3-tiny and YOLOv4-tiny. Also since the amount of computation is low, it can be easily applied in edge computing environments.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.375-390
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• 2024

Edge computing architecture has effectively alleviated the computing pressure on cloud platforms, reduced network bandwidth consumption, and improved the quality of service for user experience; however, it has also introduced new security issues. Existing anomaly detection methods in big data scenarios with cloud-edge computing collaboration face several challenges, such as sample imbalance, difficulty in dealing with complex network traffic attacks, and difficulty in effectively training large-scale data or overly complex deep-learning network models. A lightweight deep-learning model was proposed to address these challenges. First, normalization on the user side was used to preprocess the traffic data. On the edge side, a trained Wasserstein generative adversarial network (WGAN) was used to supplement the data samples, which effectively alleviates the imbalance issue of a few types of samples while occupying a small amount of edge-computing resources. Finally, a trained lightweight deep learning network model is deployed on the edge side, and the preprocessed and expanded local data are used to fine-tune the trained model. This ensures that the data of each edge node are more consistent with the local characteristics, effectively improving the system's detection ability. In the designed lightweight deep learning network model, two sets of convolutional pooling layers of convolutional neural networks (CNN) were used to extract spatial features. The bidirectional long short-term memory network (BiLSTM) was used to collect time sequence features, and the weight of traffic features was adjusted through the attention mechanism, improving the model's ability to identify abnormal traffic features. The proposed model was experimentally demonstrated using the NSL-KDD, UNSW-NB15, and CIC-ISD2018 datasets. The accuracies of the proposed model on the three datasets were as high as 0.974, 0.925, and 0.953, respectively, showing superior accuracy to other comparative models. The proposed lightweight deep learning network model has good application prospects for anomaly traffic detection in cloud-edge collaborative computing architectures.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.327-337
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• 2023

Concrete is the most widely used building material, with various types including high- and ultra-high-strength, reinforced, normal, and lightweight concretes. However, accurately predicting concrete properties is challenging due to the geotechnical design code's requirement for specific characteristics. To overcome this issue, researchers have turned to new technologies like machine learning to develop proper methodologies for concrete specification. In this study, we propose a highly accurate deep learning-based predictive model to investigate the compressive strength (UCS) of lightweight concrete with natural aggregates (pumice). Our model was implemented on a database containing 249 experimental records and revealed that water, cement, water-cement ratio, fine-coarse aggregate, aggregate substitution rate, fine aggregate replacement, and superplasticizer are the most influential covariates on UCS. To validate our model, we trained and tested it on random subsets of the database, and its performance was evaluated using a confusion matrix and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) overall accuracy. The proposed model was compared with widely known machine learning methods such as MLP, SVM, and DT classifiers to assess its capability. In addition, the model was tested on 25 laboratory UCS tests to evaluate its predictability. Our findings showed that the proposed model achieved the highest accuracy (accuracy=0.97, precision=0.97) and the lowest error rate with a high learning rate (R2=0.914), as confirmed by ROC (AUC=0.971), which is higher than other classifiers. Therefore, the proposed method demonstrates a high level of performance and capability for UCS predictions.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제25권6_3호
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• pp.1285-1291
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a low-cost, low-power embedded environment-based deep learning lightweight model for input images to recognize laundry management codes. Laundry franchise companies mainly use barcode recognition-based systems to record laundry consignee information and laundry information for laundry collection management. Conventional laundry collection management systems using barcodes require barcode printing costs, and due to barcode damage and contamination, it is necessary to improve the cost of reprinting the barcode book in its entirety of 1 billion won annually. It is also difficult to do. Recognition performance is improved by applying the VGG model with 7 layers, which is a reduced-transformation of the VGGNet model for number recognition. As a result of the numerical recognition experiment of service parts drawings, the proposed method obtained a significantly improved result over the conventional method with an F1-Score of 0.95.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2024

실시간 처리 및 프라이버시 강화를 위해 인공지능 모델을 엣지에서 동작시킬 수 있는 온디바이스 AI 기술이 각광받고 있다. 지능형 사물인터넷 기술이 다양한 산업에 적용되면서 온디바이스 AI 기술을 활용한 서비스가 크게 증가하고 있다. 그러나 일반적인 딥러닝 모델은 추론 및 학습을 위해 많은 연산 자원을 요구하고 있다. 따라서 엣지에 적용되는 경량 기기에서 딥러닝 모델을 동작시키기 위해 양자화나 가지치기와 같은 다양한 경량화 기법들이 적용되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 경량화 기법 중 가지치기 기술을 중심으로 엣지 컴퓨팅 기기에서 딥러닝 모델을 경량화하여 적용할 수 있는 방안을 분석한다. 특히, 동적 및 정적 가지치기 기법을 적용하여 경량화된 비전 모델의 추론 속도, 정확도 그리고 메모리 사용량을 시험한다. 논문에서 분석된 내용은 실시간 특성이 중요한 지능형 영상 관제 시스템이나 자율 이동체의 영상 보안 시스템에 적용될 수 있다. 또한 사물인터넷 기술이 적용되는 다양한 서비스와 산업에 더욱 효과적으로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.319-325
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• 2023

In this study, we proposed a method for hyperparameter optimization in the building and training of a deep learning model designed to process point cloud data collected by a millimeter-wave radar system. The primary aim of this study is to facilitate the deployment of a baseline model in resource-constrained IoT devices. We evaluated a RadHAR baseline deep learning model trained on a public dataset composed of point clouds representing five distinct human activities. Additionally, we introduced a coarse-to-fine hyperparameter optimization procedure, showing substantial potential to enhance model efficiency without compromising predictive performance. Experimental results show the feasibility of significantly reducing model size without adversely impacting performance. Specifically, the optimized model demonstrated a 3.3% improvement in classification accuracy despite a 16.8% reduction in number of parameters compared th the baseline model. In conclusion, this research offers valuable insights for the development of deep learning models for resource-constrained IoT devices, underscoring the potential of hyperparameter optimization and model size reduction strategies. This work contributes to enhancing the practicality and usability of deep learning models in real-world environments, where high levels of accuracy and efficiency in data processing and classification tasks are required.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2023

This paper proposes a deep learning method for estimating the heart rate from facial videos. Our proposed method estimates remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signals to predict the heart rate. Although there have been proposed several methods for estimating rPPG signals, most previous methods can not be utilized in low-power single board computers due to their computational complexity. To address this problem, we construct a lightweight student model and employ a knowledge distillation technique to reduce the performance degradation of a deeper network model. The teacher model consists of 795k parameters, whereas the student model only contains 24k parameters, and therefore, the inference time was reduced with the factor of 10. By distilling the knowledge of the intermediate feature maps of the teacher model, we improved the accuracy of the student model for estimating the heart rate. Experiments were conducted on the UBFC-rPPG dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Moreover, we collected our own dataset to verify the accuracy and processing time of the proposed method on a real-world dataset. Experimental results on a NVIDIA Jetson Nano board demonstrate that our proposed method can infer the heart rate in real time with the mean absolute error of 2.5183 bpm.