• Biomedical Science Letters
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

Mineral-induced alkaline-reduced water (MRW) is generated by the chemical reaction of water with alkaline earth metals and characterized by high pH and low oxidation-reduction potential. As ROS are believed to have a role in the pathogenesis of obesity, we attempted to determine the effect of MRW on obesity in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats fed on a high-fat diet. The body weight of the MRW group was significantly lower than that of the control group in most periods of the examination (P<0.05). Serum level of triglycerides (p<0.05) and fat deposition in the livers of the MRW group were found to have been significantly reduced. This suggests that MRW down-regulates lipid metabolism, thereby suppressing obesity. Possible mechanisms of MRW related to reactive oxygen species were also discussed. Our results suggest that MRW is effective in the alleviation of obesity in SD rats fed on high-fat diet.

• Ceramist
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.34-40
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• 2001

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.2568-2584
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• 2015

Spectral clustering has become one of the most popular clustering approaches in recent years. Similarity graph constructed on the data is one of the key factors that influence the performance of spectral clustering. However, the similarity graphs constructed by existing methods usually contain some unreliable edges. To construct reliable similarity graph for spectral clustering, an efficient method based on Markov random walk (MRW) is proposed in this paper. In the proposed method, theMRW model is defined on the raw k-NN graph and the neighbors of each sample are determined by the probability of the MRW. Since the high order transition probabilities carry complex relationships among data, the neighbors in the graph determined by our proposed method are more reliable than those of the existing methods. Experiments are performed on the synthetic and real-world datasets for performance evaluation and comparison. The results show that the graph obtained by our proposed method reflects the structure of the data better than those of the state-of-the-art methods and can effectively improve the performance of spectral clustering.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.738-741
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 RAW 이미지 포맷 중 PEF, MRW에 대한 분석 결과와 RAWImage Viewer에 대해 소개한다. DSLR 디지털 카메라로 촬영되는 이미지 파일은 범용의 JPEG 포맷이나 제조사별 독자적인 RAW 이미지 포맷으로 저장된다. 이러한 RAW 이미지 파일을 PMP 등의 휴대용 멀티미디어 기기나 디지털액자에서 재생 및 확인하기 위한 요구가 증대되고 있다. 하지만, RAW 이미지 포맷이 디지털 카메라 제조사별로 다르고, 해당 포맷에 대한 구체적인 정보가 공개되지 않아 대부분의 휴대용 멀티미디어 기기에서 RAW 이미지 파일 재생 기능을 완벽하게 지원하지 못하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 RAW 이미지 파일 포맷을 분석하여 다양한 임베디드 멀티미디어 기기에서 모든 RAW 이미지 파일을 지원할 수 있는 라이브러리 구축을 위한 연구 결과 중 일부를 소개한다. Cannon의 CRW, CR2 포맷과 Nikon의 NEF 분석 결과에 이어 PEF, MRW에 대한 분석 결과와 RAW 이미지 출력 및 분석 기능이 포함된 RAWImage Viewer에 대해 설명한다. 연구 결과는 RAW 파일을 재생할 수 있는 임베디드 장비 및 PC용 RAW 이미지 파일 재생 라이브러리를 구축 및 응용 프로그램 개발시 활용될 것이다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.1341-1349
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• 2011

This research is focused on an analysis on the structure of RAW image file and the development of a RAW image file viewer for an embedded device. Recently, several RAW image file formats are being used for saving and displaying the images created by various DSLR cameras, and the necessity of handing RAW images in mobile multimedia devices is increasing. For the development of RAW image decoding/encoding library applicable to WinCE-based embedded devices viewer, an analysis of RAW image file formats, such as CRW, CR2, PEF, NEF, MRW, have been performed because their formats are not released in public. By using the library, the analysis software which can extract RAW image data, 2~3 JPEG image files and other informations such as the specification of a camera and various photographic parameters from RAW image files, were developped and a RAW image file viewer which can run in WinCE-based embedded devices. The experimental result has shown that the viewer could encode and decode RAW image files successfully and it took approximately 10secs to load them to the screen in S3C6410 based embedded platform. The outcomes of this research cloud be a good information and solution to multimedia application developers.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.1712-1731
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a novel saliency detection framework via multiple random walks (MRW) which simulate multiple agents on a graph simultaneously. In the MRW system, two agents, which represent the seeds of background and foreground, traverse the graph according to a transition matrix, and interact with each other to achieve a state of equilibrium. The proposed algorithm is divided into three steps. First, an initial segmentation is performed to partition an input image into homogeneous regions (i.e., superpixels) for saliency computation. Based on the regions of image, we construct a graph that the nodes correspond to the superpixels in the image, and the edges between neighboring nodes represent the similarities of the corresponding superpixels. Second, to generate the seeds of background, we first filter out one of the four boundaries that most unlikely belong to the background. The superpixels on each of the three remaining sides of the image will be labeled as the seeds of background. To generate the seeds of foreground, we utilize the center prior that foreground objects tend to appear near the image center. In last step, the seeds of foreground and background are treated as two different agents in multiple random walkers to complete the process of salient object detection. Experimental results on three benchmark databases demonstrate the proposed method performs well when it against the state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy and robustness.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.89-92
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• 2009

최근 일반인들에게 널리 보급되고 있는 DSLR 디지털 카메라로 촬영되는 정지 이미지는 범용의 JPEG 포맷이나 제조사별 독자적인 RAW 파일 포맷으로 저장매체에 저장된다. 이와 함께 PMP 등의 휴대용 멀티미디어 기기를 활용하여 촬영된 RAW 파일 포맷을 재생 및 확인하기 위한 요구가 증대되고 있지만, RAW 파일 포맷이 디지털 카메라 제조사별로 다르고, 해당 포맷에 대한 구체적인 정보가 공개되지 않는 이유로 대부분의 휴대용 멀티미디어 기기에서 RAW 파일 재생 기능을 지원하지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 RAW 파일 포맷을 분석하여 향후 임베디드 멀티미디어 기기에서 모든 RAW 파일 포맷을 지원할 수 있는 라이브러리 구축을 위한 사전 작업을 수행하였다. Cannon의 CRW, CR2 포맷과 Nikon의 NEF 포맷을 분석한 결과를 설명한다. 분석 결과를 바탕으로 RAW 파일 포맷에서 JPEG 파일음 성공적으로 추출하였다. MRW, PEF, DCR, DNG 등의 RAW 파일 포맷을 추가로 분석하여 모든 RAW 파일을 재생한 수 있는 임베디드 장비 및 PC용 RAW 파일 재생 라이브러리를 구축할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.165-168
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• 2001

This Paper presents the design method and performance characteristics of a dual band balun. The design method for dual balun is based on the lumped element eqiuvalent circuit of quater-wave transformaer. By employing the proposed configuration and the derived formulas, dual band balun are designed and simulated and manufactured. The proposed design method and equivalent circuit can make it easy to adapt to designing of ceramic multi-layer chip type dual band balun. The dual band will find applications in wireless communication circuits.