• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.563-574
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• 2007

There seems to be a consensus among most people that visibility impairment is the most obvious indicator of air pollution. While considerable evidence on the association between air pollution and health outcomes including death and disease have been established, based on industrial complex areas or huge urban cities, time-series, case-crossover and cohort studies, scarce literature exists on the direct evidence for the association between visibility and adverse health outcomes. Our study is assessed the effect of air pollution measured by visibility impairment on respiratory mortality over a period of six years. Relative risks in respiratory deaths were estimated by a Poisson regression model of daily deaths between $1999{\sim}2004$. Daily counts of respiratory deaths as dependent variable was modelled with daily 24-hr mean visibility measurements (kilometers) as independent variable by means of Poisson regression. This model is controlled for confounding factors such as day of weeks, weather variables, seasonal variables and $PM_{10}$. The results in this study is observed the statistically significant association between an inverse health effect and visibility during the study period for respiratory mortality (percentage change in the relative risk for all aged -0.57%, 95% Cl, $-1.01%{\sim}-0.12%$; for $0{\sim}15$ aged -7.12%, 95% Cl, $-13.29%{\sim}-0.51%$; for 65+ aged -0.43%, 95% Cl, $-0.93%{\sim}-0.06%$ per 1 km increased in visibility). The effect size was much reduced during warm season. Visibility impairment resulting from air pollution is strongly associated with respiratory mortality, especially for children may be spent at outdoor. Our result provides a quick and useful indicator for eliciting the contribution of air pollution to the excess risk of respiratory mortality in Seoul, Korea.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.163-170
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• 2013

일반적으로 외부에서 획득되는 영상은 대기 중에 존재하는 먼지, 물방울, 연무, 안개, 연기 등에 의해 화질이 감쇠되고 결과적으로 대비도 감소와 색상의 왜곡 현상이 발생한다. 그리나 안개와 배경 사이에 내재된 모호성 때문에 배경으로부터 안개를 제거하는 작업은 결코 간단한 문제가 아니다. 본 논문에서는 단일 영상에서 비용함수로서 에지의 기울기를 이용한 그래프 기반 영역 분할 방법을 이용하여 안개 제거를 위한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 우리는 장면을 깊이 관련 정보에 따라 여러 영역으로 분리하고 전역적인 안개값을 추정한다. 매체의 전달량은 그래프 기반 영역 분할 알고리즘의 임계 함수에 의해서 직접적으로 계산된다. 매체 전달량과 안개값이 계산되면 안개 모델식에 의해서 쉽게 안개가 제거된 영상을 복원할 수 있다. 그리고 안개 영상과 복원된 영상간의 에지의 기울기 비율을 계산함으로써 기존의 연구 방법과 제안된 연구 방법의 가시성 복원 정도를 비교 평가하였다. 다양한 안개 영상에 대한 실험 결과 제안된 방법의 우수한 안개 제거 및 화질 복원 능력이 입증되었다.

• 대한건축학회논문집:계획계
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• 제35권9호
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• pp.65-75
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• 2019

This study aims at analyzing the therapeutic design characteristics implemented in the indoor atriums of the outpatient areas in four children's hospitals in London and San Francisco. A mixed-method approach was used to examine the spatial configurations and design elements in the atriums, while a literature review was conducted to understand the therapeutic design characteristics relevant to atrium spaces and children's healthcare facilities. The spatial design and the pattern of use of the atrium in each hospital were studied during field visits and interviews with the hospital management staff. Based on the literature review and the observations from the field study, a Visibility Graphic Analysis was chosen to examine the visibility, accessibility, and intelligibility of the spatial configurations in the atriums of each hospital. In addition, the openness, restfulness, and vibrant ambience of the design elements in the atriums of each hospital were investigated by surveying fifty-two design professionals on the quality of the design elements in the atriums. A spatial configuration analysis, confirmed that all the atrium spaces had high visibility, accessibility, and intelligibility due to their high connectivity, integration, intelligibility, and because the atriums were laid out in the open lobby space, along the major circulation axis, or in the circulation intersection. In the survey of the design element evaluation, all atriums proved to be appropriate in terms of openness, while the adequacy of restfulness and vibrant ambience differed depending on the hospitals. Notably, location and orientation, access, natural light, outdoor view, and play facilities were found significant environmental design elements determining the successful implementation of the therapeutic design in the atriums. The observations from the aforementioned are further discussed to enhance the therapeutic design quality of atrium spaces in children's hospitals.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.1
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• pp.251-256
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• 2006

In the work package 'Integrated Positioning' of the research project NAVIO (Pedestrian Navigation Systems in Combined Indoor/Outdoor Environements) we are dealing with the navigation and guidance of visitors of our University. Thereby start points are public transport stops in the surroundings of the Vienna University of Technology and the user of the system should be guided to certain office rooms or persons. For the position determination of the user different location sensors are employed, i.e., for outdoor positioning GPS and dead reckoning sensors such as a digital compass and gyro for heading determination and accelerometers for the determination of the travelled distance as well as a barometric pressure sensor for altitude determination and for indoor areas location determination using WiFi fingerprinting. All sensors and positioning methods are combined and integrated using a Kalman filter approach. Then an optimal estimate of the current location of the user is obtained using the filter. To perform an adequate weighting of the sensors in the stochastic filter model, the sensor characteristics and their performance was investigated in several tests. The tests were performed in different environments either with free satellite visibility or in urban canyons as well as inside of buildings. The tests have shown that it is possible to determine the user's location continuously with the required precision and that the selected sensors provide a good performance and high reliability. Selected tests results and our approach will be presented in the paper.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제50권7호
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• pp.81-96
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to understand consumer values derived from products by the contemporary consumers, as the meaning of a product is extended from the functional utilities to the mediums of fulfilling consumer values. Consumer values have been researched from the marketers' perspectives and, thus, the scales to measure consumer values tend to be too abstract and not always reflective of the consumers' perspectives. Holbrook's typology of consumer values is utilized and the products are classified into four groups according to the product characteristic of the utilitarian versus hedonic, and the consumption spaces of the indoor and outdoor. The findings are as follows. First, the values of efficiency, excellence, ethics, and spirituality are more likely derived from utilitarian products, while the value of play is more likely derived from the hedonic products. Second, the values of efficiency, excellence, and ethics are more likely derived from the indoor products, and values of playfulness, esthetics, status, and respect are more likely derived from the outdoor products. Third, the most frequently mentioned values are the efficiency, playfulness, and status. Fourth, the list of products answered as being representative for four types of products are short to include obvious products such as TV, mobile phone, computer, car, refrigerator, and MP3 player. Both the utilitarian and hedonic values are derived from TV, computer, and mobile phone, while the utilitarian value from refrigerator and car, and the hedonic value from MP3 player, digital camera, and game consoles. The results imply that consumer values should be carefully understood and reflected in developing new products in order to successfully fulfill consumers' underlying needs and requirements.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.118-126
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• 2020

In this paper, we present an effective single image fog removal by using the Joint Bright and Dark Channel (JBDC) and pixel-based transmission estimation to enhance the visibility of outdoor images susceptible to degradation due to weather and environmental conditions. The conventional methods include refinement process of coarse transmission with heavy computational complexity. The proposed transmission estimation reveals excellent edge-preserving performance and does not require the refinement process. We estimate the atmospheric light in pixel-based fashion, which can improve the transmission estimation performance and visual quality of the restored image. Moreover, we propose an adaptive transmission estimation to enhance the visual quality specifically in sky regions. Comprehensive experiments on various fog images show that the proposed method exhibits reduced computational complexity and excellent fog removal performance, compared with the existing methods; thus, it can be applied to various fields including real-time devices.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.975-981
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• 2006

This paper shows a feasibility analysis results on RFID for car positioning system. Usually, a car navigation is mainly based on GPS combined with map-matching. However, in the case of poor visibility of satellites, GPS can not supply accurate position information continuously. In recent years, RFID has been considered to be one of key technologies in positioning and localization area. But its application and research results in the area of vehicular positioning are not popular. RFID system consists of tag, reader, antenna and software such as drivers and middleware. The main function of RFID system in a vehicular positioning is to retrieve ID recorded position information from tags which set on the center of road. We propose a positioning method for vehicles using RFID and we present some indoor and outdoor experiment results to show that the proposed method is available in vehicle operational environments.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.587-589
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• 2009

The mode (reflective and transmissive) switchable LCD has been developed by using a treated SR (Selective Reflector) polarizer. We believe that our approach will be a solution to overcome weak points for a reflective and transflective mode in a dark environment and a transmissive mode in a bright environment. Therefore, this can minimize power consumption, and also be easily fabricated in a current manufacturing process, ready for large sizes.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.515-524
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• 2016

근적외선은 눈에 보이는 가시광선 파장 대역을 벗어난 빛으로 일반적인 디지털 카메라에서는 핫미러 필터에 의하여 차단된다. 하지만 근적외선으로부터 얻어지는 정보들은 영상의 전체적인 가시성을 향상시킬 수 있다고 알려져 있기 때문에 영상의 질 개선에 유용한 정보가 될 수 있다. 예를 들어 영상에 안개가 낀 경우, 근적외선은 가시광선보다 안개 입자에 대한 침투성이 더 강하다는 성질을 가지고 있기 때문에 근적외선 카메라로 영상을 촬영하면 일반적인 카메라 영상보다 더 선명한 영상을 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문은 실외 영상의 질을 높이기 위해 컬러 영상과 근적외선 영상을 융합하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 첫 번째로, 본 논문은 컬러 영상과 근적외선 영상의 대비를 비교하여 가중치 맵을 구한다. 그 후, 이 가중치 맵을 이용하여 두 영상을 융합하는 과정을 거치게 된다. 본 논문은 실험 결과들을 통해서 제안하는 알고리즘이 효과적으로 영상의 질을 높이고, 또한 안개를 제거하는 것을 보여준다.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.503-518
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to illustrate the design of safety suits based on energy-harvesting technology, particularly targeting street cleaners who must work at night with high mobility. The design focuses on applying lightweight energy-harvesting tools and illuminant into the wear. The design development reflects feedback from testers collected via survey constituting a key methodology. The development process has two main stages. Each stage uses a process of design prototyping, internal examination, test sampling, test wearing, and wearers' feedback via survey that consists of questions on visibility, wearing convenience, and washability. The first stage results show the design of safety suits with energy-harvested LED illuminant inserted and the survey results collected from street cleaners dressed in 4 sample and 80 actual suits in total. Improved based on the first-stage survey results, the second stage designs the suits with detachable energy-harvested EL tape. From these 5 sample and 30 actual second-stage suits, the additional survey indicates that this second-stage design facilitates more visibility and convenience in washing and wearing than the first-stage design. Accordingly, one can expect that this new design can apply not only to safety suits for night workers but also to handicapped or outdoor sportswear applications in the future.