• 품질경영학회지
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.701-716
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• 2022

Purpose: This study aims to predict the dry cargo transportation market economy. The subject of this study is the BDI (Baltic Dry Index) time-series, an index representing the dry cargo transport market. Methods: In order to increase the accuracy of the BDI time-series, we have pre-processed the original time-series via time-series decomposition and data augmentation techniques and have used them for ANN learning. The ANN algorithms used are Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) to compare and analyze the case of learning and predicting by applying time-series decomposition and data augmentation techniques. The forecast period aims to make short-term predictions at the time of t+1. The period to be studied is from '22. 01. 07 to '22. 08. 26. Results: Only for the case of the MAPE (Mean Absolute Percentage Error) indicator, all ANN models used in the research has resulted in higher accuracy (1.422% on average) in multivariate prediction. Although it is not a remarkable improvement in prediction accuracy compared to uni-variate prediction results, it can be said that the improvement in ANN prediction performance has been achieved by utilizing time-series decomposition and data augmentation techniques that were significant and targeted throughout this study. Conclusion: Nevertheless, due to the nature of ANN, additional performance improvements can be expected according to the adjustment of the hyper-parameter. Therefore, it is necessary to try various applications of multiple learning algorithms and ANN optimization techniques. Such an approach would help solve problems with a small number of available data, such as the rapidly changing business environment or the current shipping market.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.393-407
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• 2022

Due to the enormous cement content, pozzolanic materials, and the use of different aggregates, sustainable controlled low-strength material (CLSM) has a higher material cost than conventional concrete and sustainable construction issues. However, by selecting appropriate materials and formulations, as well as cement and aggregate content, whitethorn costs can be reduced while having a positive environmental impact. This research explores the desire to optimize plastic properties and 28-day unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of CLSM containing powder content from unprocessed-fly ash (u-FA) and recycled fine aggregate (RFA). The mixtures' input parameters consist of water-to-cementitious material ratio (W/CM), fly ash-to-cementitious materials (FA/CM), and paste volume percentage (PV%), while flowability, bleeding, segregation index, and 28-day UCS were the desired responses. The central composite design (CCD) notion was used to produce twenty CLSM mixes and was experimentally validated using MATLAB by an Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Variance analysis (ANOVA) was used for the determination of statistical models. Results revealed that the plastic properties of CLSM improve with the FA/CM rise when the strength declines for 28 days-with an increase in FA/CM, the diameter of the flowability and bleeding decreased. Meanwhile, the u-FA's rise strengthens the CLSM's segregation resistance and raises its strength over 28 days. Using calcareous powder as a substitute for cement has a detrimental effect on bleeding, and 28-day UCS increases segregation resistance. The response surface method (RSM) can establish high correlations between responses and the constituent materials of sustainable CLSM, and the optimal values of variables can be measured to achieve the desired response properties.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.1825-1834
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• 2022

Performing high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (HF-CFD) to predict the flow and heat transfer state of the coolant in the reactor core is expensive, especially in scenarios that require extensive parameter search, such as uncertainty analysis and design optimization. This work investigated the performance of utilizing a multi-fidelity reduced-order model (MF-ROM) in PWR rod bundles simulation. Firstly, basis vectors and basis vector coefficients of high-fidelity and low-fidelity CFD results are extracted separately by the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) approach. Secondly, a surrogate model is trained to map the relationship between the extracted coefficients from different fidelity results. In the prediction stage, the coefficients of the low-fidelity data under the new operating conditions are extracted by using the obtained POD basis vectors. Then, the trained surrogate model uses the low-fidelity coefficients to regress the high-fidelity coefficients. The predicted high-fidelity data is reconstructed from the product of extracted basis vectors and the regression coefficients. The effectiveness of the MF-ROM is evaluated on a flow and heat transfer problem in PWR fuel rod bundles. Two data-driven algorithms, the Kriging and artificial neural network (ANN), are trained as surrogate models for the MF-ROM to reconstruct the complex flow and heat transfer field downstream of the mixing vanes. The results show good agreements between the data reconstructed with the trained MF-ROM and the high-fidelity CFD simulation result, while the former only requires to taken the computational burden of low-fidelity simulation. The results also show that the performance of the ANN model is slightly better than the Kriging model when using a high number of POD basis vectors for regression. Moreover, the result presented in this paper demonstrates the suitability of the proposed MF-ROM for high-fidelity fixed value initialization to accelerate complex simulation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.4084-4104
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• 2021

Visual place recognition (VPR) is a fundamental yet challenging task of mobile robot navigation and localization. The existing VPR methods are usually based on some pairwise similarity of image descriptors, so they are sensitive to visual appearance change and also computationally expensive. This paper proposes a simple yet effective four-step method that achieves adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) landmark matching for VPR. First, based on the features extracted from existing CNN models, the regions with higher significance scores are selected as landmarks. Then, according to the coordinate positions of potential landmarks, landmark matching is improved by removing mismatched landmark pairs. Finally, considering the significance scores obtained in the first step, robust image retrieval is performed based on adaptive landmark matching, and it gives more weight to the landmark matching pairs with higher significance scores. To verify the efficiency and robustness of the proposed method, evaluations are conducted on standard benchmark datasets. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method reduces the feature representation space of place images by more than 75% with negligible loss in recognition precision. Also, it achieves a fast matching speed in similarity calculation, satisfying the real-time requirement.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.480-502
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• 2022

This work assesses the degree of satisfaction tourists receive as final recipients in a tourism destination based on the fact that satisfied tourists can make a significant contribution to the growth and continuous improvement of a tourism business. The work considers Pokhara, the tourism capital of Nepal as a prefecture of study. A stratified sampling methodology with open-ended survey questions is used as a primary source of data for a sample size of 1019 for both international and domestic tourists. The data collected through a survey is processed using a data mining tool to perform multi-dimensional analysis to discover information patterns and visualize clusters. Further, supervised machine learning algorithms, kNN, Decision tree, Support vector machine, Random forest, Neural network, Naive Bayes, and Gradient boost are used to develop models for training and prediction purposes for the survey data. To find the best model for prediction purposes, different performance matrices are used to evaluate a model for performance, accuracy, and robustness. The best model is used in constructing a learning-enabled model for predicting tourists as satisfied, neutral, and unsatisfied visitors. This work is very important for tourism business personnel, government agencies, and tourism stakeholders to find information on tourist satisfaction and factors that influence it. Though this work was carried out for Pokhara city of Nepal, the study is equally relevant to any other tourism destination of similar nature.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.3904-3922
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• 2022

As a research hotspot, pedestrian detection has a wide range of applications in the field of computer vision in recent years. However, current pedestrian detection methods have problems such as insufficient detection accuracy and large models that are not suitable for large-scale deployment. In view of these problems mentioned above, a lightweight pedestrian detection and early warning method using a new model called you only look once (Yolov5) is proposed in this paper, which utilizing advantages of Yolov5s model to achieve accurate and fast pedestrian recognition. In addition, this paper also optimizes the loss function of the batch normalization (BN) layer. After sparsification, pruning and fine-tuning, got a lot of optimization, the size of the model on the edge of the computing power is lower equipment can be deployed. Finally, from the experimental data presented in this paper, under the training of the road pedestrian dataset that we collected and processed independently, the Yolov5s model has certain advantages in terms of precision and other indicators compared with traditional single shot multiBox detector (SSD) model and fast region-convolutional neural network (Fast R-CNN) model. After pruning and lightweight, the size of training model is greatly reduced without a significant reduction in accuracy, and the final precision reaches 87%, while the model size is reduced to 7,723 KB.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.251-258
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• 2023

안정적으로 전력을 공급하고 전력계통을 운영하기 위해서는 최대전력을 정확히 예측해야 한다. 특히, 최대전력이 높게 발생하는 겨울과 여름에는 그 중요성이 매우 커진다. 최대전력을 실제 수요보다 높게 예측하면 발전소 기동 비용이 증가하여 경제적 손실이 발생하고, 최대전력을 실제 수요보다 낮게 예측하면 기동이 가능한 발전소가 부족하여 정전이 발생할 수 있다. 최대전력의 예측 오차를 최소화함으로써 경제적 손실과 정전을 예방할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 최대전력 예측의 오차를 최소화하기 위하여 최신 딥러닝 모델인 TCN을 이용한다. 딥러닝 모델은 하이퍼 파라미터를 어떻게 설정하느냐에 따라 성능 차이가 발생하므로, TCN의 하이퍼 파라미터를 최적화하는 방법을 제안한다. 2006년부터 2021년까지의 데이터를 입력하여 모델을 훈련하고, 2022년의 데이터를 이용하여 예측 오차를 실험하였다. 실험을 수행한 결과 본 논문에서 제안한 최적화 방법을 이용한 TCN 모델의 성능이 다른 딥러닝 모델보다 성능이 우수한 것을 확인하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.371-393
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• 2023

Crack detection in structures plays a vital role in ensuring their safety, durability, and reliability. Traditional crack detection methods sometimes need significant manual inspections, which are laborious, expensive, and prone to error by humans. Deep learning algorithms, which can learn intricate features from large-scale datasets, have emerged as a viable option for automated crack detection recently. This study presents an in-depth review of crack detection methods used till now, like image processing, traditional machine learning, and deep learning methods. Specifically, it will provide a comparative analysis of crack detection methods using deep learning, aiming to provide insights into the advancements, challenges, and future directions in this field. To facilitate comparative analysis, this study surveys publicly available crack detection datasets and benchmarks commonly used in deep learning research. Evaluation metrics employed to check the performance of different models are discussed, with emphasis on accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. Moreover, this study provides an in-depth analysis of recent studies and highlights key findings, including state-of-the-art techniques, novel architectures, and innovative approaches to address the shortcomings of the existing methods. Finally, this study provides a summary of the key insights gained from the comparative analysis, highlighting the potential of deep learning in revolutionizing methodologies for crack detection. The findings of this research will serve as a valuable resource for researchers in the field, aiding them in selecting appropriate methods for crack detection and inspiring further advancements in this domain.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.3-12
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• 2023

포스트-코로나 시대에는 방역 조치의 중요성이 크게 강조되고 있으며, 이에 맞춰 딥러닝을 이용한 마스크 착용 상태 검출 및 다른 전염병 예방에 관련된 연구가 진행되고 있다. 그러나 질병 확산 방지를 위한 문화시설 관람객 탐지 및 추적 연구도 마찬가지로 중요하므로 이에 대한 연구가 진행되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 사전 수집된 데이터 셋을 이용하여 컨볼루션 신경망 기반 객체 탐지 모델을 전이 학습시키고, 학습된 탐지 모델의 가중치를 다중 객체 추적 모델에 적용하여 방문객을 모니터링 한다. 방문객 탐지 모델은 Precision 96.3%, Recall 85.2% F1-Score 90.4%의 결과를 보여주었다. 추적 모델의 정량적 결과로 MOTA 65.6%, IDF1 68.3%. HOTA 57.2%의 결과를 보여주었으며, 본 논문의 모델과 다른 다중 객체 추적 모델 간의 정성적 비교에서 우수한 결과를 보여주었다. 본 논문의 연구는 포스트-코로나 시대의 문화시설 내 방역 시스템에 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.94-101
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• 2023

음성 향상에서 많이 사용되는 U-Net과 같이 인코더와 디코더로 구성된 심층 신경망 모델은 skip-connection을 통해 인코더의 특징을 디코더에 연결하는 구조로 구성되어 있다. Skip-connection은 디코더에서 향상된 스펙트럼을 재구성하는데 도움을 주며 인코더를 통해 손실된 정보를 보완해줄 수 있다. 이때 skip-connection을 통해 연결되는 인코더의 특징과 디코더의 특징의 의미는 서로 다르다. 본 논문에서는 복소 스펙트럼 기반 음성 향상의 성능 향상을 위해 디코더에 연결되는 인코더의 특징을 디코더 특징의 의미에 가깝게 변환해주도록 skip-connection에 Self-Attention(SA)을 적용하는 방안을 연구하였다. SA는 시퀀스-시퀀스 문제에서 출력 시퀀스를 생성할 때, 입력 시퀀스의 가중 산술 평균을 이용하여 결정적인 부분을 집중해서 볼 수 있도록 하는 기법으로, 음성 향상 분야에서도 이를 적용함으로써 성능 향상에 효과적임을 입증하는 연구가 진행되었다. SA를 skip-connection에 적용하기 위해 인코더 특징과 디코더 특징을 이용하는 총 3가지의 방법에 대해 연구하였다. TIMIT 데이터베이스를 이용한 음성 향상 실험 결과, 제안하는 방법이 기존 skip-connection으로만 연결된 Deep Complex U-Net(DCUNET)과 비교하여 모든 성능 평가 지표에서 향상된 결과를 보였다.