• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권10호
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• pp.248-255
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 다양한 특징점들을 이용하여 아스팔트 도로의 포트홀을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 포트홀 검출에서의 분할, 후보, 결정 단계 들은 특징점 들의 특성에 따라 추출된 값들에 의해 처리된다. 분할 단계에서는 히스토그램과 형태학 필터의 닫힘 연산을 이용하여 포트홀 검출을 위한 어두운 영역을 추출한다. 후보 단계에서는 포트홀 후보 영역을 정하기 위하여 크기, 밀도 등 다양한 특징점들을 이용하여 포트홀 후보 영역을 추출한다. 또한 마지막 결정 단계에서는 후보 영역과 배경 영역과의 특징점들의 비교를 통해서 후보 영역이 포트홀 여부를 판단한다. 실험 결과, 제안하는 방법이 기존 포트홀 검출 방법 보다 향상된 결과를 보이고 포트홀과 유사한 형태들과 구분하는 향상된 결과를 보인다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.397-402
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• 2007

Restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) continues to be a serious problem in clinical cardiology. To solve this problem, drug eluting stents (DES) with antiproliferative agents have been developed. Variable local drug delivery systems in the context of stenting require the development of stent manufacture, drug pharmacology and coating technology. We have worked on a system that integrates electrophoretic deposition (EPD) technology with the polymeric nanoparticles in DES for local drug delivery and a controlled release system. The surface morphology and drug loading amount of DES by EPD have been investigated under different operational conditions, such as operation time, voltage and the composition of media. We prepared poly-D,L-lactide-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) nanoparticles embedded with curcumin, which was done by a modified spontaneous emulsification method and used polyacrylic acid (PAA) as a surfactant because its carboxylic group contribute negative charge to the surface of CPNPs (?53.5 ± 5.8 mV). In the process of ‘trial and error' endeavors, we found that it is easy to control the drug loading amount deposited onto the stent while keeping uniform surface morphology. Accordingly, stent coating by EPD has a wide application to the modification of DES using various kinds of nanoparticles and drugs.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.243-247
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• 2014

Spherical NiO-YSZ particles were synthesized by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis (USP). The morphology of the synthesized particles can be modified by controlling parameters such as precursor pH, carrier-gas flow-rate, and temperature of the heating zone. The synthesized spherical NiO-YSZ particles have rough surface morphology at high carrier-gas flow-rates due to rapid gas exhaustion and insufficient particle ordering. The Ni-YSZ cermet anode synthesized by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis at a flow rate of l L/min, with precursor solution at pH4, showed a higher maximum power density of 256 $mW/cm^2$ compared to a conventionally mixed Ni-YSZ anode (185 $mW/cm^2$) at $800^{\circ}C$. While the area-specific resistance of conventionally mixed Ni-YSZ anodes increases gradually with operation time (indicating performance degradation), the Ni-YSZ anode synthesized by USP does not exhibit any performance degradation, even after 500 h.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.557-562
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• 2002

Physiological characteristics such as specific productivity, morphology of Streptomyces cells Immobilized on celite beads, and operational stability at different dilution rates were investigated in continuous immobilized-cell cultures for the production of kasugamycin. At a dilution rate (D) of 0.05 $h^{-1}$, a relatively high specific productivity was attained and the loss of cell-loaded beads was negligible. At D=0.1 $h^{-1}$, a higher specific productivity and cell concentration could be obtained, resulting in a significantly improved volumetric kasugamycin productivity. However, no stable operation could be maintained due to a significant loss of cell-loaded beads from the reactor that was caused by their fluffy morphology developed in the later stage. At D=0.2 $h^{-1}$, the production of kasugamycin and cell growth were observed to be severely inhibited by the high concentration of residual maltose.

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2005

Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS), polycarbonate (PC) and their alloys are an important class of engineering thermoplastics that are widely used for automotive industry, computer and equipment housings. For the process of recycling mixtures of ABS and PC, it is desirable to know how sensitive the blend properties are to changes in compositions. It was for this reason that blends of virgin ABS and virgin PC at five different compositions, namely, $15\%,\;30\%,\;50\%,\;70%$ and $85\%$ by weight of ABS were prepared and characterised by rheological and mechanical measurements. Rheological properties of these blends in steady, oscillatory and transient step shear and mechanical properties, namely, tensile strength, elongation-at-break and Izod impact strength are reported. The results show that PC behaves in a relatively Newtonian manner, but ABS exhibits significant shear thinning. The ABS-rich blends show a trend that is similar to that of ABS, while PC-rich blends, namely $0\%$ and $15\%$, exhibit a nearly Newtonian behaviour. However, at a fixed shear rate or frequency, the steady shear or the dynamic viscosity varied respectively in a non-mono-tonic manner with composition. Except for $15\%$ blend, the viscosities of other blends fall into a narrow band indicating a wide-operation window of varying blend ratio. The blends exhibited a lower viscosity than either of the two pure components. The other noticeable feature was that the blends at $70\%$ and $85\%$ ABS content had a higher G' than pure ABS, indicating an enhancement of elastic effect. The tensile yield strength of the blends followed the 'rule of mixtures' showing a decreasing value with the increase of ABS content in PC. However, the elongation-at-break and the impact strength did not appear to obey this 'rule of mixtures,' which suggests that morphology of the blends also plays a significant role in determining the properties. Indeed, scanning electron micrographs of the fracture surfaces of the different blends validate this hypothesis, and the $15\%$ blend is seen to have the most distinct morphology and correspondingly different behaviour and properties.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.2441-2449
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• 2015

디지털 정보화 시대에서 영상은 여러 매체에서 필수적으로 이용되며, 에지는 영상에서 물체의 크기, 위치, 방향 등을 포함하는 중요한 특징 정보이다. 이러한 에지를 검출하기 위한 여러 연구들이 국내외에서 진행되고 있다. 기존의 에지 검출 방법들에는 고정된 가중치 값을 적용하는 Sobel, Prewitt, Roberts, Laplacian, LoG 등이 있다. 이와 같은 기존의 에지 검출 방법들은 고정된 가중치 마스크를 영상에 적용하기 때문에 에지 검출 특성이 다소 미흡하게 나타난다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제점을 보완하기 위해, 모폴로지에서 bottom-hat 변환과 열기 연산을 이용하여 영상을 개선하고 마스크 기반의 기울기를 구한 후 에지를 구하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 그리고 제안한 알고리즘의 성능을 평가하기 위해, 기존의 Sobel, Roberts, Prewitt, Laplacian, LoG 에지 검출 방법들과 비교하여 시각적 영상을 나타내었고, 각각의 영상을 기준으로 하는 MSE 값을 구하여 유사성을 비교하였다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.11-15
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• 2019

Severe wall thinning is found on the tube of a low-pressure evaporator(LPEVA) module that is used for a heat recovery steam generator(HRSG) of a district heating system. Since wall thinning can lead to sudden failure or accidents that lead to shutdown of the operation, it is very important to investigate the main mechanism of the wall thinning. In this study, corrosion analysis associated with a typical flow-accelerated corrosion(FAC) is performed using the corroded tube connected to an upper header of the LPEVA. To investigate factors triggering the FAC, the morphology, composition, and phase of the corroded product of the tube are examined using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy combined with energy dispersive spectroscopy, and x-ray diffraction. The results show that the thinnest part of the tube is in the region where gas directly contacts, revealing the typical orange peel type of morphology frequently found in the FAC. The discovery of oxide scales containing phosphate indicates that phosphate corrosion is the main mechanism that weakens the stability of the protective magnetite film and the FAC accelerates the corrosion by generating the orange peel type of morphology.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.430-441
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• 2002

비디오 객체 분할은 MPEG-4와 같은 객체기반 비디오 코딩을 위한 중요한 구성 요소이다. 본논문은 비디오 시퀸스에서 움직임 객체 분할을 위한 새로운 알고리즘과 VOP(Video Object Plane)추출 방법을 소개한다. 본 논문의 핵심은 시간적으로 변하는 움직임 객체 에지와 공간적 객체 에지 검출 결과를 효율적으로 조합하여 정확한 객체 경계를 추출하는 것이다. 이후 추출된 에지를 통하여 VOP를 생성한다. 본 알고리즘은 첫 번째 프레임을 기준영상으로 설정한 후 두 개의 연속된 프레임 사이의 움직임 픽셀 차이 값으로부터 시작된다. 차이영상을 추출한 후 차이영상에 Canny 에지 연산과 수리형태 녹임 연산(erosion)을 적용하고, 다음 프레임의 영상에 Canny 에지 연산과 수리형태 녹임 연산을 적용하여 두 프레임 사이의 에지 비교를 통하여 정확한 움직임 객체 경계를 추출한다. 이 과정에서 수리형태학 녹임 연산은 잘못된 객체 에지의 검출을 방지하는 작용을 한다. 두 영상 사이의 정확한 움직임 객체 에지(moving object edge)는 에지 크기를 조절하여 생성한다. 본 알고리즘은 픽셀 범위까지 고려한 정화한 객체의 경계를 얻음으로서 매우 쉬운 구현과 빠른 객체 추출을 보였다.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2009년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.48.1-48.1
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• 2009

Performance of organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) with various temperature-cured polyacrylate(PA) copolymer as a gate insulator was studied. The PA thin film, which was cured at an optimized temperature, showed high dielectric strength (>7 MV/cm), low leakage current density ($5{\times}10^{-9}\;A/cm^2$ at 1 MV/cm) and enabled negligible hysteresis in MIS capacitor and OFET. A field-effect mobility of ${\sim}0.6\;cm^2/V\;s$, on/off current ratio (Ion/Ioff) of ${\sim}10^5$ and inverse subthreshold slope (SS) as low as 1.22 V/decwere achieved. The high dielectric strength made it possible to scale down the thickness of dielectric, and low-voltage operation of -5 V was successfully realized. The chemical changes were monitored by FT-IR. The morphology and microstructure of the pentacene layer grown on PA dielectrics were also investigated and correlated with OFET device performance.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2005

Purpose : The purpose of this study was to investigate the preliminary use of morphologic operation (MO) in analyzing trabecular pattern of alveolar bone for the predicting systemic osteoporosis. Materials and Methods : Study subjects consisted of 35 females (average age 48.5 years) and 25 males (average age 25.8 years). Bone mineral density BMD $(grams/cm^2)$ of lumbar spine and proximal femur of these subjects were measured by a dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). Regions of interest (ROIs) were selected from the digitized periapical radiographs of subjects' posterior jaw. A custom computer program processed morphology operations of ROIs. We compared mean values of 11 MO variables according to the osteoporotic group divided by the T-scores of DEXA. We also studied correlation between radiographic density and these MO variables. Results : The mean radiographic densities insignificantly correlated with MO variables. There were statistically significant differences among the values of 9 MO variables according to the osteoporotic group. Conclusion Morphologic operation can be effective in analyzing trabecular pattern of alveolar bone for the predicting osteoporosis.