• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.293-304
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 H.264/AVC 인코더에서 가장 많은 연산 시간이 소요되는 움직임 추정(motion estimation, ME) 동작을 위한 하드웨어의 구조를 제안하고 IP(intellectual property) 형태로 구현하였다. 고속 움직임 추정기의 구조는 버퍼(buffer), PU 어레이(processing unit array), SAD 선택기(SAD selector), MV 생성기(motion vector generator) 등으로 구성되어 있다. PU 어레이는 16개의 PU로 구성되어 있고, 각각의 PU는 16개의 PE(processing element)로 이루어져 있다. 제안한 하드웨어의 동작적인 특징은 외부메모리 접근량을 줄이기 위해 현재와 참조프레임의 데이터를 재사용한다는 것과 SAD연산을 수행할 때 클록의 손실 없이 계산을 할 수 있다는 것이다. 구현한 고속 움직임 추정기는 Altera 사의 FPGA인 StatixIII EP3SE80F1152C2에서 3%의 자원을 사용하였고, 최대 동작주파수는 446.43MHz이었다. 따라서 구현한 하드웨어는 1080p 영상을 최대 50fps로 처리할 수 있다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.599-609
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• 2020

The tension-only braced frames (TOBFs) are widely used as a lateral force resisting system (LFRS) in low-rise steel buildings due to their simplicity and economic advantage. However, the system has poor seismic energy dissipation capacity and pinched hysteresis behavior caused by early buckling of slender bracing members. The main concern in utilizing the TOBF system is the determination of appropriate performance factors for seismic design. A formalized approach to quantify the seismic performance factor (SPF) based on determining an acceptable margin of safety against collapse is introduced by FEMA P695. The methodology is applied in this paper to assess the SPFs of the TOBF systems. For this purpose, a trial value of the R factor was first employed to design and model a set of TOBF archetype structures. Afterwards, the level of safety against collapse provided by the assumed R factor was investigated by using the non-linear analysis procedure of FEMA P695 comprising incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) under a set of prescribed ground motions. It was found that the R factor of 3.0 is appropriate for safe design of TOBFs. Also, the system overstrength factor (Ω₀) was estimated as 2.0 by performing non-linear static analyses.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.207-222
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• 2010

Fire incident in buildings is common, so the fire safety design of the framed structure is imperative, especially for the unprotected or partly protected bare steel frames. However, software for structural fire analysis is not widely available. As a result, the performance-based structural fire design is urged on the basis of using user-friendly and conventional nonlinear computer analysis programs so that engineers do not need to acquire new structural analysis software for structural fire analysis and design. The tool is desired to have the capacity of simulating the different fire scenarios and associated detrimental effects efficiently, which includes second-order P-D and P-d effects and material yielding. Also the nonlinear behaviour of large-scale structure becomes complicated when under fire, and thus its simulation relies on an efficient and effective numerical analysis to cope with intricate nonlinear effects due to fire. To this end, the present fire study utilizes a second-order elastic/plastic analysis software NIDA to predict structural behaviour of bare steel framed structures at elevated temperatures. This fire study considers thermal expansion and material degradation due to heating. Degradation of material strength with increasing temperature is included by a set of temperature-stress-strain curves according to BS5950 Part 8 mainly, which implicitly allows for creep deformation. This finite element stiffness formulation of beam-column elements is derived from the fifth-order PEP element which facilitates the computer modeling by one member per element. The Newton-Raphson method is used in the nonlinear solution procedure in order to trace the nonlinear equilibrium path at specified elevated temperatures. Several numerical and experimental verifications of framed structures are presented and compared against solutions in literature. The proposed method permits engineers to adopt the performance-based structural fire analysis and design using typical second-order nonlinear structural analysis software.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제83권3호
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• pp.327-340
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• 2022

The Collapse Margin Ratio (CMR) is a notable index used for seismic assessment of the structures. As proposed by FEMA P695, a set of analyses including the Nonlinear Static Analysis (NSA), Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA), together with Fragility Analysis, which are typically time-taking and computationally unaffordable, need to be conducted, so that the CMR could be obtained. To address this issue and to achieve a quick and efficient method to estimate the CMR, the Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Response Surface Method (RSM), and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) will be introduced in the current research. Accordingly, using the NSA results, an attempt was made to find a fast and efficient approach to derive the CMR. To this end, 5016 IDA analyses based on FEMA P695 methodology on 114 various Reinforced Concrete (RC) frames with 1 to 12 stories have been carried out. In this respect, five parameters have been used as the independent and desired inputs of the systems. On the other hand, the CMR is regarded as the output of the systems. Accordingly, a double hidden layer neural network with Levenberg-Marquardt training and learning algorithm was taken into account. Moreover, in the RSM approach, the quadratic system incorporating 20 parameters was implemented. Correspondingly, the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) has been employed to discuss the results taken from the developed model. Additionally, the essential parameters and interactions are extracted, and input parameters are sorted according to their importance. Moreover, the ANFIS using Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy system was employed. Finally, all methods were compared, and the effective parameters and associated relationships were extracted. In contrast to the other approaches, the ANFIS provided the best efficiency and high accuracy with the minimum desired errors. Comparatively, it was obtained that the ANN method is more effective than the RSM and has a higher regression coefficient and lower statistical errors.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제28권7호
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• pp.668-673
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 최소값 제어 음성 존재 부정확성의 추정기법을 이용한 음성 향상 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 음성 존재 부정확성 추정기법에서는 간단한 a posteriori SNR에 근거하여 프레임, 채널마다 다른 a priori음성 부재 확률값을 결정하여 음성 부재 확률 계산에 적용하였다. 본 논문에서 제안된 알고리즘은 기존 음성 존재 부정확성 추적방법과는 달리 최소값 제어방법을 이용하여 주파수성분별 최소값에 근거한 강인한 a priori음성 부재 확률값 추정방법을 통해 음성 부재 확률에 적용하여 음성을 향상시킨다. 제안된 음성 향상 기법은 ITU-T P.862 perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ)를 이용하여 평가하였고 기존의 음성 존재 부정확성 추적방법보다 향상된 결과를 나타내었다.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제11A권4호
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• pp.277-284
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• 2004

본 논문은 사용자로 하여금 계층적 가시화 기법에 의한 표정들의 공간으로부터 일련의 표정을 선택하게 함으로써 3차원 아바타의 표정 제어기법을 기술한다. 본 시스템에서는 2,40P0여개의 표정 프레임을 이용하여 2차원 표정공간을 구성하였으며, 3차원 아바타의 표정 제어는 사용자가 표정공간을 항해하면서 수행한다. 그러나 표정의 수가 너무 많아 사용자가 항해를 하는데 어려움이 많기 때문에 계층적 가시화 기법이 필요하다. 표정공간을 계층적으로 분할하기 위해, 퍼지 클러스터링을 이용한다. 초기 단계에서는 2,400여개의 표정들을 이용하여 약 11개의 클러스터센터를 가지도록 클러스터링한다. 클러스터 센터들은 2차원 평면에 표시되며 후보 키 프레임으로 사용된다 사용자는 후보 키 프레임들 중에서 특정 키 프레임들을 선택하여 초기 항해경로를 생성한다. 사용자가 줌 인(이산적인 단계를 가지고 있음)을 하면 상세한 단계를 보기를 원한다는 의미이므로 줌 인된 단계에 적합한 표정 클러스터들을 생성한다. 단계가 증가될 때 마다 클러스터의 수를 두 배로 하고, 클러스터의 수만큼 표정들을 클러스터링한다. 사용자는 현재 단계에서 그전 단계의 항해경로를 따라 새로운 키 프레임(클러스터 센터)들을 선택하여 항해경로를 갱신한다. 줌 인을 최대로 한 마지막 단계에서 항해경로를 갱신하면 표정 제어 설정이 끝난다. 사용자는 언제든지 줌 아웃을 통해 그 전단계로 돌아가서 항해경로를 수정할 수 있다. 본 논문은 본 시스템이 어떤 효과가 있는지를 알기 위해 사용자들로 하여금 본 시스템을 사용하여 3차원 아바타의 표정 제어를 수행하게 하였으며, 그 결과를 평가한다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.229-233
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• 1999

The mitochondrial plasmid pMLP1 from a white-rot fungus, Pleurotus ostreatus, is a double-stranded DNA containing 381 bp terminal inverted repeat (TIR) whose 5'-ends are covalently bound by terminal proteins. The plasmid contains two major open reading frames (ORFs), encoding putative DNA and RNA polymerases, and a minor ORF encoding a small, highly basic protein. To identify the DNA binding activity that recognizes the TIR region of pMLP1, gel retardation assays were performed with mitochondrial extracts. A specific protein binding to a region between 123 and 248 nt within TIR was observed. We examined whether the gene product of mORF1 bindes to this region specifically. E. coli cell extract which contains an overproduced mORF1 protein formed a complex specific to the region between 123 and 248 nt. Inclusion of mORF1 protein in the specific complex formed between P. ostreatus mitochondrial extract and TIR was confirmed by a supershift assay using polyclonal antibodies against the mORF1 protein. Our result suggest that the product of mORF1 may function as a terminal region recognition factor (TRF), recognizing an internal region in TIR.

• BMB Reports
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.161-166
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• 2005

Functional protein of MB78 bacteriophage having apparent molecular weight of 22 kDa is expressed from 1.7 kb HindIII G fragment. The nucleotide sequence of this fragment showed two open reading frames of 222 and 196 codons in tail-to-tail orientation separated by a 62-nucleotide intercistronic region. The ORF of 22 kDa protein is present in opposite orientation, i.e. in the complementary strand, preceded by a strong ribosomal binding site and a promoter sequence. Another ORF started from the beginning of the fragment whose promoter region and translational start site lies in the 0.45 kb HincII U fragment which is located next to the HindIII G fragment, that has the sequence for DNA bending. 3' end of the fragment has high sequence homology to the EaA and EaI proteins of bacteriophage P22, a close relative of MB78 phage.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2002

A cluster of genes encoding the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) of Streptomyces seoulensis, a Gram-positive bacterium, was cloned and sequenced. The genes of S. seoulensis consist of four open reading frames. The first gene, lpd, which encodes a lipoamide dehydrogenase, is followed by pdhB encoding a dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase (E2p), pdhR, a regulatory gene, and pdhA encoding a pyruvate dehydrogenase component (Elp). Elp had an unusual homodimeric subunit, which has been known only in Gram-negative bacteria S. seoulensis E2p contains two lipoyl domains like those of humans and Streptomyces faecalis. The pdhR gene appears to be clustered with the structural genes of S. seoulensis PDC. The PdhR-overexpressed S. seoulensis howed growth retardation and the decrease of Elp, indicating that PdhR regulates the function of PDC by repressing the expression of Elp. A strain of Streptomyces licidans overexpressing S. seoulensis PdhR showed a significant decreasein the level of actinorhodin, implying a regulatory role for Streptomyces PDC in antibiotic biosynthesis.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.257-279
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• 2015

The primary objective of this study is to summarize results from previous experimental tests on laboratory specimens of RC/steel frames with masonry infills, in order to develop fragility functions that permit the estimation of damage in typical non-structural components of RC frame buildings, as a function of attained peak interstory drift. The secondary objective is to derive loss functions for such non-structural components, which provide information on the probability of experiencing a certain level of monetary loss when a given damage state is attained. Fragility curves and loss function developed in this study can be directly used within the FEMA P-58 framework for the seismic performance assessment of RC frame buildings with masonry infills.