• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권10호
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• pp.3803-3810
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• 2022

OpenMC is a community-driven open-source Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport simulation code. The Weight Window Mesh (WWM) function and an automatic Global Variance Reduction (GVR) method was recently developed and implemented in a developmental branch of OpenMC. This WWM function and GVR method broaden OpenMC's usage in general purposes deep penetration shielding calculations. However, the Local Variance Reduction (LVR) method, which suits the source-detector problem, is still missing in OpenMC. In this work, the Weight Window Generator (WWG) function has been developed and benchmarked for the same branch. This WWG function allows OpenMC to generate the WWM for the source-detector problem on its own. Single-material cases with varying shielding and sources were used to benchmark the WWG function and investigate how to set up the particle histories utilized in WWG-run and WWM-run. Results show that there is a maximum improvement of WWM generated by WWG. Based on the above results, instructions on determining the particle histories utilized in WWG-run and WWM-run for optimal computation efficiency are given and tested with a few multi-material cases. These benchmarks demonstrate the ability of the OpenMC WWG function and the above instructions for the source-detector problem. This developmental branch will be released and merged into the main distribution in the future.

• Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.113-118
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• 2015

An important problem in low-dose CT is the image quality degradation caused by photon starvation. There are a lot of algorithms in sinogram domain or image domain to solve this problem. In view of strong self-similarity contained in the special sinusoid-like strip data in the sinogram space, we propose a novel non-local filtering, whose average weights are related to both the image FBP (filtered backprojection) reconstructed from restored sinogram data and the image directly FBP reconstructed from noisy sinogram data. In the process of sinogram restoration, we apply a non-local method with smoothness parameters adjusted adaptively to the variance of noisy sinogram data, which makes the method much effective for noise reduction in sinogram domain. Simulation experiments show that our proposed method by filtering in both image and projection domains has a better performance in noise reduction and details preservation in reconstructed images.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2015

The essential idea of de-noising is referring to neighboring pixels of a center pixel to be updated. Conventional adaptive de-noising filters use local statistics, i.e., mean and variance, of neighboring pixels including the center pixel. The drawback of adaptive de-noising filters is that their performance becomes low when edges are contained in neighboring pixels, while anisotropic diffusion de-noising filters remove adaptively noises and preserve edges considering intensity difference between neighboring pixel and the center pixel. The anisotropic diffusion de-noising filters, however, use only intensity difference between neighboring pixels and the center pixel, i.e., local statistics of neighboring pixels and the center pixel are not considered. We propose a new connectivity function of two adjacent pixels using statistics of neighboring pixels and apply connectivity function to diffusion coefficient. Experimental results using an aerial image corrupted by uniform and Gaussian noises showed that the proposed algorithm removed more efficiently noises than conventional diffusion filter and median filter.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권11호
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• pp.2068-2086
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• 2011

Based on the quincunx sub-sampling grid, the New Interleaved Hierarchical INTerpolation (NIHINT) method is recognized as a superior pyramid data structure for the lossless and progressive coding of natural images. In this paper, we propose a new image interpolation algorithm, Edge Adaptive Hierarchical INTerpolation (EAHINT), for a further reduction in the entropy of interpolation errors. We compute the local variance of the causal context to model the strength of a local edge around a target pixel and then apply three statistical decision rules to classify the local edge into a strong edge, a weak edge, or a medium edge. According to these local edge types, we apply an interpolation method to the target pixel using a one-directional interpolator for a strong edge, a multi-directional adaptive weighting interpolator for a medium edge, or a non-directional static weighting linear interpolator for a weak edge. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves a better compression bit rate than the NIHINT method for lossless image coding. It is shown that the compression bit rate is much better for images that are rich in directional edges and textures. Our algorithm also shows better rate-distortion performance and visual quality for progressive image transmission.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.111-118
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• 1996

본 연구는 수치지형모델로부터 지형을 대표할 수 있는 임계점을 추적하는데 목적을 두었다. 지형의 임계점은 주위 인접점으로부터 급격한 변화가 이루어지는 점으로 생각할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 라플라스 연산자를 중심으로 이들의 최적 추적방법이 연구되어지며 조그만 리플을 제거하기 위한 노이즈 제거 시스템이 적용되어진다. 연구결과 라플라스 연산자는 지형의 임계점을 효과적으로 추출함을 알 수 있었으며 국소적인 분산간에 의한 노이즈 제거 시스템은 조그만 리플을 제거하는데는 효과적이었으나, 지형의 형상을 재현시키는데는 비효과적임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국입자에어로졸학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.99-108
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• 2011

To establish area specific control strategies for the reduction of the ozone concentration, the Ozone Isopleth Plotting Package for Research(OZIPR) model has been widely used. However, the model results tend to changed by various input parameters such as the background concentration, emission amount of NOx and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and meteorological condition. Thus, sensitivity analysis should be required to ensure the reliability of the result. The OZIPR modeling results for five local government districts in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA) in June 2000 were used for the sensitivity analysis. The sensitivity analysis result showed that the modeling result of the SMA being VOC-limited region be still valid for a wide range of input parameters' variation. The estimated ozone concentrations were positively related with the initial VOCs concentrations while were negatively related with the initial NOx concentrations. But, the degree of the variations at each local district was different suggesting area specific characteristics being also important. Among the five local governments, Suwon was chosen to identify other variance through the period from April to September in 2000. The monthly modeling results show different ozone values, but still showing the characteristics of VOCs-limited region. Limitations due to not considering long range transport and transfer from neighbor area, limitation of input data, error between observed data and estimated data are all discussed.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권9호
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• pp.2119-2129
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• 2020

Flow-accelerated corrosion (FAC), liquid droplet impingement erosion (LDIE), cavitation and flashing can cause continuous wall-thinning in nuclear secondary pipes. In order to prevent pipe rupture events resulting from the wall-thinning, most NPPs (nuclear power plants) implement their management programs, which include periodic thickness inspection using UT (ultrasonic test). Meanwhile, it is well known in field experiences that the thickness measurement errors (or deviations) are often comparable with the amount of thickness reduction. Because of these errors, it is difficult to estimate wall-thinning exactly whether the significant thinning has occurred in the inspected components or not. In the previous study, the authors presented an approximate estimation procedure as the first step for thickness measurement deviations at each inspected component and the statistical & quantitative characteristics of the measurement deviations using plant experience data. In this study, statistical significance was quantified for the current methods used for wall-thinning determination. Also, the authors proposed new estimation procedures for determining local wall-thinning to overcome the weakness of the current methods, in which the proposed procedure is based on analysis of variance (ANOVA) method using subgrouping of measured thinning values at all measurement grids. The new procedures were also quantified for their statistical significance. As the results, it is confirmed that the new methods have better estimation confidence than the methods having used until now.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.175-182
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• 1998

SAR 영상은 speckle 잡음의 multiplicative 특성으로 인해 영상 해석에 많은 제약을 받고 있다. Speckle 잡음을 제거하기 위한 방법은 크게 여러 개의 독립 영상을 multi-looks 처리 방법과 디지털 영상 처리 기술을 이용하는 방법으로 speckle 잡음 특성에 따른 비선형필터의 적용이다. 본 연구에서는 국지적 통계 자료를 이용하는 LEE와 Refined LEE 필터 그리고 speckle 자체의 통계 특성을 이용하는 EPOS(Edge Preserving Optimal Speckle)필터를 이용하여 speckle 잡음을 제거하여 SAR 영상의 화질을 개선하고 그 결과를 기존의 mean과 median 필터와 비교하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.629-635
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 영상에 첨가된 가우시안 잡음과 임펄스 잡음의 영향을 완화하기 위하여 잡음의 종류에 따라 처리하는 비선형 합성 필터를 제안하였다. 잡음 판단을 통해 국부 마스크의 중심화가 가우시안 잡음으로 판단된 경우, 국부 마스크 내의 표본분산을 이용하여 공간 가중치 필터와 화소 변화에 따른 가중치 필터의 가중치를 다르게 적용하여 처리하고, 임펄스 잡음으로 판단된 경우, 국부 마스크의 잡음 밀도에 따라 국부 히스토그램 가중치 필터와 표준 메디안 필터의 가중치를 다르게 적용하여 처리하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 그리고 제안한 필터 알고리즘의 성능을 평가하기 위해 PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio)을 사용하여 기존의 방법들과 제안한 필터 알고리즘을 가우시안 잡음, 임펄스 잡음 및 두 잡음이 혼합된 복합잡음 환경에서 각각 비교하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제24권12B호
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• pp.2369-2381
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 웨이브렛 변환을 이용하여 블록기반 변환 부호화 영상에서의 블록화 현상을 반복적으로 제거하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 블록화 현상이 수직, 수평 방향의 블록 경계를 따라 수직, 수평으로만 나타나는 점에 착안하여, 블록화 현상이 있는 영상 신호를 수직, 수평 방향의 분리적인 1차원 신호의 집합으로 간주하고 Gaussian 형태 함수의 1차 도함수를 모 웨이브렛으로 하는 1차원 웨이브렛 영역에서의 평균 자승 오차를 최소화시키는 필터로써 첫 번째 스케일 웨이브렛 영역의 블록 경계 위치에서의 분산이 다른 위치에 비하여 유달리 크게 나타나도록 하는 블록화 현상에 의한 신호 성분을 제거하는 과정과 양자화에 관한 블록 집합으로 투영하는 과정을 반복적으로 수행하여 블록화 현상이 제거된 영상을 얻는다. 실험결과, 제안된 방법은 0.56 - 1.07dB의 PSNR 성능 향상뿐만 아니라 에지 몽롱화가 없이 블록화 현상이 거의 제거된 주관적 화질 개선을 보였다.