• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.65-77
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• 2013

This study was aimed at (1) investigating expectant mothers' prenatal attachment according to variables (age, gestational weeks, perceived health condition, anticipating the gender of the fetus, marriage duration, and parity), (2) analyzing correlations among their prenatal attachment, spousal support, and parenting efficacy, and (3) examining the role of prenatal attachment as a mediator between spousal support and parenting efficacy. For this purpose, 221 expectant mothers living in Seoul completed a 55-item survey. The collected data were analyzed by t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and regression analyses. The findings of this study were as follows. First, among the variables, gestational weeks, perceived health condition, marriage duration, and parity showed significant differences in the scores for the overall prenatal attachment and subordinate factors. Second, there were positive correlations between the expectant mothers' prenatal attachment and spousal support and between their prenatal attachment and parenting efficacy. Third, the expectant mothers' prenatal attachment proved to mediate between spousal support and parenting efficacy. These findings shed light on the significance of prenatal attachment and spousal support during the pregnancy period; therefore, it is essential to develop education programs for expecting parents to enhance prenatal attachment and spousal support and to conduct follow-up studies to verify the effectiveness of the programs.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.129-142
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• 2016

In Wyner-Ziv coding, video signals are reconstructed by correcting side information generated by block-based motion estimation/compensation at the decoder. The correction is not always accurate due to the limited number of parity bits and early stopping of low-density parity check accumulate (LDPCA) decoding in distributed video coding, or due to the limited number of measurements in distributed compressive video sensing. The blocking artifacts caused by block-based processing are usually conspicuous in smooth areas and degrade the perceptual quality of the reconstructed video. Conventional deblocking filters try to remove the artifacts by treating both sides of the block boundary equally; however, coding errors generated by block-based processing are not necessarily the same on both sides of the block boundaries. Such a block-wise difference is exploited in this paper to improve deblocking for Wyner-Ziv frameworks by designing a filter where the deblocking strength at each block can be non-identical, depending on the reliability of the reconstructed pixels. Test results show that the proposed filter not only improves subjective quality by reducing the coding artifacts considerably, but also gains rate distortion performance.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권10호
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• pp.72-79
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• 2014

본 논문은 PIPELINE-AWARE QC-IRA-LDPC (PA-QC-IRA-LDPC) 코드 생성 방법과 Rate-1/2 (2016,1008) PA-QC-IRA-LDPC 코드에 대한 효율적인 고속 복호기 구조를 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 비트 오류율 (BER) 성능 저하 없이 파이프라인 기법을 사용하여 임계경로를 나눌 수 있다. 또한 제안한 복호기 구조는 데이터 처리량, 하드웨어 효율 및 에너지 효율을 크게 향상시킬 수 있다. 제안한 복호기 구조는 90-nm CMOS 기술을 사용하여 합성 및 레이아웃이 수행되었으며, 이전에 보고된 복호기 구조들에 비해서 하드웨어 효율성이 53%이상 향상되었고, 훨씬 좋은 에너지 효율성을 보여준다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.325-334
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• 2016

Recently, Open Computing Language (OpenCL) has been proposed to provide a framework that supports heterogeneous computing platforms. By using an OpenCL framework, digital communication systems can support various protocols in a unified computing environment to achieve both high portability and high performance. This article introduces a parallel software decoder of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes for China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) on a heterogeneous platform. Each step of LDPC decoding has different parallelization characteristics. In this paper, steps suitable for task-level parallelization are executed on the CPU, and steps suitable for data-level parallelization are processed by the GPU. To improve the performance of the proposed OpenCL kernels for LDPC decoding operations, explicit thread scheduling, loop-unrolling, and effective data transfer techniques are applied. The proposed LDPC decoder achieves high performance by using heterogeneous multi-core processors on a unified computing framework.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.375-382
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• 1992

The effect of certain factors such as sex of calf, status of buffalo, season of calving, parity and sire on lactation length and total lactation yield was studied in 391 Nili-Ravi buffaloes. The average lactation length was $301.73{\pm}1.87$ (mean $\pm$ SE) days with a range of 181 to 505 days whereas the average lactation yield was $2031.08{\pm}19.16kg$ and ranged from 1023 to 6535 kg for 984 lactations. The differences in the means of lactation length and lactation yield due to the sex of calf were significant (p<0.05). The status of buffaloes had a significant (p<0.05) effect on lactation length but its effect on lactation yield was non-significant. The season of calving had no effect on lactation length but it influenced the lactation yield significantly. The milk yield was highest ($2150.81{\pm}43.52kg$) in buffaloes which calved in spring and lowest ($1959.92{\pm}30.83kg$) in autumn. The effect of parity on both traits under study was significant (p<0.01). The maximum and minimum lactation lengths of $309.82{\pm}3.96$ and $284.16{\pm}7.17$ days were observed in the first and sixth lactations, respectively. The milk yield was maximum ($2150.38{\pm}58.79kg$) in the seventh lactation and minimum (1818.31 60.04 kg) in the sixth lactation. The influence of sire was significant on lactation length (p<0.05) and milk yield (p<0.01).

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.1839-1844
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• 2015

Low-density parity-check(LDPC) 코드는 우수한 에러 정정 능력으로 인해 점점 많은 통신 표준에서 채택되고 있으며 그 중 구현이 용이한 quasi-cyclic LDPC(QC-LDPC)가 많이 사용되고 있다. QC-LDPC 복호기에서는 데이터들을 rotation할 수 있는 cyclic-shifter가 필요하며, 이 cyclic-shifter는 다양한 크기의 rotation을 수행할 수 있어야 한다. 이러한 cyclic-shifter를 multi-size circular shifter(MSCS)라고 부르며, 이 논문에서는 MSCS를 적은 면적으로 구현한 구조를 제안한다. 기존의 직렬로 배치된 barrel-rotator 구조에서 rotation의 성질을 이용하여 필요 없는 멀티플렉서를 가려내고 이들을 제거함으로써 저면적을 구현하였다. 실험 결과 면적을 약 12% 줄일 수 있었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.891-898
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• 2014

분산 비디오 부호화기법은 초경량의 비디오 부호화기법에 대한 이론적인 근거를 제공하고 있다. 기존에 많이 연구되어온 분산 비디오 부호화기법은 주로 스탠포드 대학교의 연구에 기초하고 있으며, 피드백 채널을 통하여 비트율을 정교하게 제어하는 방법을 사용하고 있다. 그러나 이 방법은 복호화기에서 수신된 패리티 비트에 의해 복원된 각 프레임의 품질에 대한 평가하는 방법은 제시되지 않고 있다. 본 논문에서는 보조정보에 있는 가상채널잡음을 보정함으로써 왜곡크기를 예측하고 또한 복원된 영상의 화질측정을 손쉽게 측정할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 다수의 실험을 통하여 제안한 방법은 복원된 프레임의 왜곡을 효과적으로 예측할 수 있음을 보인다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.665-671
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 DVB-T2 (digital video broadcasting for terrestrial - 2nd generation) 시스템을 위한 터보 등화기를 제안 하고 그 성능을 분석하였다. 터보 등화기는 MAP (maximum a posteriori) 검파기와 LDPC (low density parity check) 복호기로 구성 되었다. LS(least square) 채널 추정 기반 SISO (soft-input-soft-output) MAP 등화기는 LDPC 복호기에 외래 확률 값을 준다. 터보 등화기의 성능을 반복 횟수에 따라 컴퓨터 실험을 통하여 분석하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.339-345
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• 2015

In this paper, we present an iterative reliability-based modified majority-logic decoding algorithm for two classes of structured low-density parity-check codes. Different from the conventional modified one-step majority-logic decoding algorithms, we design a turbo-like iterative strategy to recover the performance degradation caused by the simply flipping operation. The main computational loads of the presented algorithm include only binary logic and integer operations, resulting in low decoding complexity. Furthermore, by introducing the iterative set, a very small proportion (less than 6%) of variable nodes are involved in the reliability updating process, which can further reduce the computational complexity. Simulation results show that, combined with the factor correction technique and a well-designed non-uniform quantization scheme, the presented algorithm can achieve a significant performance improvement and a fast decoding speed, even with very small quantization levels (3-4 bits resolution). The presented algorithm provides a candidate for trade-offs between performance and complexity.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.639-644
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• 2014

In low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, probabilistic information are exchanged between an LDPC decoder and a MIMO detector. TheMIMO detector has to calculate probabilistic values for each bit which can be very complex. In [1], the authors presented a class of linear block codes named low-density MIMO codes (LDMC) which can reduce the complexity of MIMO detector. However, this code only supports the outer-iterations between the MIMO detector and decoder, but does not support the inner-iterations inside the LDPC decoder. In this paper, a new approach to construct LDMC codes is introduced. The new LDMC codes can be encoded efficiently at the transmitter side and support both of the inner-iterations and outer-iterations at the receiver side. Furthermore they can achieve the design rates and perform very well over MIMO channels.