• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.795-802
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• 2009

This paper presents the design of an advanced terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (AT-DMB) baseband receiver SoC. The AT-DMB baseband is incorporated into a hierarchical modulation scheme consisting of high priority (HP) and low priority (LP) stream decoders. The advantages of the hierarchical modulation scheme are backward compatibility and an enhanced data rate. The structure of the HP stream is the same as that of the conventional T-DMB system; therefore, a conventional T-DMB service is possible by decoding multimedia data in an HP stream. An enhanced data rate can be achieved by using both HP and LP streams. In this paper, we also discuss a time deinterleaver that can deinterleave data for a time duration of 384 ms or 768 ms. The interleaving time duration is chosen using the LP symbol mapping scheme. Furthermore, instead of a Viterbi decoder, a turbo decoder is adopted as an inner error correction system to mitigate the performance degradation due to a smaller symbol distance in a hierarchically modulated LP symbol. The AT-DMB baseband receiver SoC is fabricated using 0.13 ${\mu}m$ technology and shows successful operation with a 50 mW power dissipation.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.661-680
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• 2016

The vehicle license plate recognition (VLPR) system analyzes and monitors the speed of vehicles, theft of vehicles, the violation of traffic rules, illegal parking, etc., on the motorway. The VLPR consists of three major parts: license plate detection (LPD), license plate character segmentation (LPCS), and license plate character recognition (LPCR). This paper presents an efficient method for the LPCS and LPCR of Korean vehicle license plates (LPs). LP tilt adjustment is a very important process in LPCS. Radon transformation is used to correct the tilt adjustment of LP. The global threshold segmentation method is used for segmented LP characters from two different types of Korean LPs, which are a single row LP (SRLP) and double row LP (DRLP). The cross-correlation matching method is used for LPCR. Our experimental results show that the proposed methods for LPCS and LPCR can be easily implemented, and they achieved 99.35% and 99.85% segmentation and recognition accuracy rates, respectively for Korean LPs.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.523-532
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• 2015

맥문동(Liriope platyphylla)은 염증(inflammation), 당뇨(diabetes), 신경퇴행성질환(neurodegenerative disorder), 비만(obesity), 변비(constipation), 아토피질환(atopic dermatitis) 등의 다양한 임상질환에 매우 우수한 치료효과를 나타내는 것으로 알려져왔다. 또한, 하이드로콜로이드막(hydrocolloid membranes, HCM)은 피부경화증 피부궤양(scleroderma skin ulcers), 피부궤양(cutaneous ulcers), 영구적 고막천공(permanent tympanic membrane perforations), 욕창(pressure sores), 욕창궤양(decubitus ulcers)과 같은 피부질환 치료에 많이 사용되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기능성이 우수한 맥문동 추출물을 HCM에 혼합하여 맥문동 혼합 하이드로콜로이드막(HCM-LP)을 제조하고, 물리화학적 특성을 분석한 뒤 2도 화상을 유발한 SD 랫드에 14일 동안 처리하여 치료효과를 분석하였다. 그 결과, 일반 하이드로콜로이드막(HCM)에 비하여 HCM-LP에서 인장강도와 흡수성은 각각 38.4%, 46.3% 감소하였으나 표면거칠기는 38.1% 증가하였다. 화상을 유발한 SD 랫드에서 HCM-LP를 처리한 결과, 화상 유발 14일 후에 HCM-LP처리그룹은 GZ처리그룹에 비하여 유의적으로 화상크기 감소를 나타내었을 뿐만 아니라 흉터감소, 재상피화, 신생혈관형성 그리고 세포외기질의 침적을 유도하였다. 따라서 이러한 결과는 HCM-LP가 신생혈관형성과 연결조직형성 조절을 통해 SD 랫드에서의 화상 치료를 향상시킴을 의미한다. 또한, 본 연구는 HCM-LP가 피부상처의 치료에 적용할 수 있는 다른 기능성 물질을 포함하는 HCM의 개발에 대한 가능성을 제시하고 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권10호
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• pp.909-919
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• 2014

License plate (LP) detection is the most imperative part of an automatic LP recognition (LPR) system. Typical LPR contains two steps, namely LP detection (LPD) and character recognition. In this paper, we propose an efficient Vehicle-to-LP detection framework which combines with an adaptive GMM (Gaussian Mixture Model) and a cascade of boosted classifiers to make a faster vehicle LP detector. To develop a background model by using a GMM is possible in the circumstance of a fixed camera and extracts the motions using background subtraction. Firstly, an adaptive GMM is used to find the region of interest (ROI) on which motion detectors are running to detect the vehicle area as blobs ROIs. Secondly, a cascade of boosted classifiers is executed on the blobs ROIs to detect a LP. The experimental results on our test video with the resolution of $720{\times}576$ show that the LPD rate of the proposed system is 99.14% and the average computational time is approximately 42ms.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제26권8호
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• pp.1490-1503
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• 2016

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in the world. Although 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is the representative chemotherapy drug for colorectal cancer, it has therapeutic limits due to its chemoresistant characteristics. Colorectal cancer cells can develop into cancer stem cells (CSCs) with self-renewal potential, thereby causing malignant tumors. The human gastrointestinal tract contains a complex gut microbiota that is essential for the host's homeostasis. Recently, many studies have reported correlations between gut flora and the onset, progression, and treatment of CRC. The present study confirms that the most representative symbiotic bacteria in humans, Lactobacillus plantarum (LP) supernatant (SN), selectively inhibit the characteristics of 5-FU-resistant colorectal cancer cells (HT-29 and HCT-116). LP SN inhibited the expression of the specific markers CD44, 133, 166, and ALDH1 of CSCs. The combination therapy of LP SN and 5-FU inhibited the survival of CRCs and led to cell death by inducing caspase-3 activity. The combination therapy of LP SN and 5-FU induced an anticancer mechanism by inactivating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling of chemoresistant CRC cells, and reducing the formation and size of colonospheres. In conclusion, our results show that LP SN can enhance the therapeutic effect of 5-FU for colon cancer, and reduce colorectal cancer stem-like cells by reversing the development of resistance to anticancer drugs. This implies that probiotic substances may be useful therapeutic alternatives as biotherapeutics for chemoresistant CRC.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.203-207
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• 2018

본 연구는 초점거리가 24mm 인, 대기투과 특성이 좋은 $3{\sim}5{\mu}m$ 파장대역의 적외선의 상을 결상할 수 있는 렌즈계의 설계 개발에 관한 것이다. 설계는 상용 설계 프로그램인 CodeV를 사용하였고, 색수차, 구면수차 및 왜곡 제거에 가중치를 가지는 최적화를 진행하였다. 설계되어진 렌즈계는 Si와 Ge로 구성된 2매의 렌즈로 이루어져 있는데, 각각의 렌즈는 한 면이 비구면으로 이루어져 있다. 그리고 이 광학계는 선폭 20lp/mm에서는 MTF값이 0.40, 선폭 29lp/mm에서는 MTF값이 0.25인 특성의 분해능을 갖게 되었다. 이 광학계는 $25{\mu}m$ pixel의 $206{\times}156$ 어레이 및 $17{\mu}m$ pixel의 $320{\times}240$ 어레이 적외선 검출소자를 사용하는 MWIR용 열화상 카메라에 적용할 수 있는 성능을 가진 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.147-157
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• 2017

This study investigated the characteristics of variations in carbon dioxide concentration and air temperature with the vertical change of surface in a grassplot. Field observations were carried out at a grassplot in Gyeongnam Science High School, over four days in August and November, 2015. Continuous observation equipment (GMP343, VAISALA) was installed at the LP (0.1 m from the surface) and UP (1.1 m from the surface) points, and the carbon dioxide concentration and air temperature were measured simultaneously at 1-min intervals. To summarize the results of the observation, August had higher than average concentrations of carbon dioxide, while November showed average air temperatures. Moreover, the concentration of carbon dioxide was higher at the UP point, while the air temperature was higher at the LP point. The correlation coefficient of carbon dioxide concentration between the UP and LP points was 0.80 in August across all the four days, while it was higher in November at 0.58-0.95. The results of the regression analysis of carbon dioxide concentration with air temperature changes for both August and November showed a distinct change at the LP point (R2=0.36-0.76), as compared to the UP point (R2=0.1-0.57). Between the UP and LP points, the carbon dioxide concentration and air temperature regression analysis results indicated that an active exchange was taking place between the two points.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제20권43호
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• pp.299-319
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• 1997

Since a convergence strategy in interactive procedure is the origin of a lot of the restrictions and inconvenience of many methods, a new flexible convergence strategy is necessary for developing that is applicable for interactive MOLP as well as interactive multiple objective integer programming(MOIP). A method for computing the volume of the interval defined subsets of weighting vector space is developed using Sobol's LP$_{i}$, Generator. Since the interactive procedure requires a number of iterations, with a fixed number of solutions presented per iteration, a convergence strategy is needed to control the rate at which the interactive procedure converges to a final solution. Thus, in this paper, a new convergency strategy is developed.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.175-180
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• 2012

This paper presents a blind watermark detection scheme for an additive watermark embedding model. The proposed estimation-correlation-based watermark detector first estimates the embedded watermark by exploiting non-Gaussian of the real-world audio signal and the mutual independence between the host-signal and the embedded watermark and then a correlation-based detector is used to determine the presence or the absence of the watermark. For watermark estimation, blind source separation (BSS) based on independent component analysis (ICA) is used. Low watermark-to-signal ratio (WSR) is one of the limitations of blind detection with the additive embedding model. The proposed detector uses two-stage processing to improve the WSR at the blind detector; the first stage removes the audio spectrum from the watermarked audio signal using linear predictive (LP) filtering and the second stage uses the resulting residue from the LP filtering stage to estimate the embedded watermark using BSS based on ICA. Simulation results show that the proposed detector performs significantly better than existing estimation-correlationbased detection schemes.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.181-183
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• 2001

This paper presents a robust power system state estimator using linear programming(LP). LP state estimators minimize the weighted sum of the absolute values of the measurement residuals. In this paper, WLS(weighted least square) and WLAV(weighted least absolute value) state estimators are run with same measurement sets including bad data in order to compare the robustness to bad data and convergence characteristics of the two methods. Simulations with three test cases are performed and the results are presented, using IEEE 14 bus system.