• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2019

This paper describes the improved environment recognition algorithms using some type of sensors like LiDAR and cameras. Additionally, integrated control algorithm for an autonomous vehicle is included. The integrated algorithm was based on C++ environment and supported the stability of the whole driving control algorithms. As to the improved vision algorithms, lane tracing and traffic sign recognition were mainly operated with three cameras. There are two algorithms developed for lane tracing, Improved Lane Tracing (ILT) and Histogram Extension (HIX). Two independent algorithms were combined into one algorithm - Enhanced Lane Tracing with Histogram Extension (ELIX). As for the enhanced traffic sign recognition algorithm, integrated Mutual Validation Procedure (MVP) by using three algorithms - Cascade, Reinforced DSIFT SVM and YOLO was developed. Comparing to the results for those, it is convincing that the precision of traffic sign recognition is substantially increased. With the LiDAR sensor, static and dynamic obstacle detection and obstacle avoidance algorithms were focused. Therefore, improved environment recognition algorithms, which are higher accuracy and faster processing speed than ones of the previous algorithms, were proposed. Moreover, by optimizing with integrated control algorithm, the memory issue of irregular system shutdown was prevented. Therefore, the maneuvering stability of the autonomous vehicle in severe environment were enhanced.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2007

모니터 화면상에서 광각으로 멀리보이는 이미지에 대한 기억왜곡현상을 고찰하기 위해 피실험자 170명을 대상으로 두 개의 실험이 실시되었다. 기억 파지기간을 세 가지(즉시, 1시간, 24시간)로 나누고, 시각기억에 대한 재생실험과 재인실험을 실시하였다. 재생실험 결과, 파지기간에 상관없이 피실험자들은 원본이미지보다 전경과 배경을 더 크게 확대 하여 표현하였다. 재인실험결과 파지기간이 1시간과 48시간인 경우에 피실험자들은 원본과 동일한 이미지에 대해 더 광각으로 멀리 촬영된 것으로 인식하였다. 이 결과들은 광각이미지의 시각적 기억, 회상에 경계축소현상이 나타난다는 것을 확인시켜주며, 기존 연구들의 주장과는 달리 경계확장이 일관성 있으며 단방향적으로만 일어나는 현상이 아니라는 것을 보여준다. 또한 연구결과는 경계축소현상을 기억스키마 가설로 설명하는 것이 타당함을 보여준다.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.85-94
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• 2020

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is caused by various factors, such as cholinergic dysfunction, regulation of neurotrophic factor expression, and accumulation of amyloid-beta. We investigated whether or not a combination of Carthamus tinctorius L. seed and Taraxacum coreanum (CT) has a protective effect on scopolamine-induced memory impairment in a mouse model. Methods and Results: Mice were orally pretreated with CT (50, 100 and 200 mg/kg/day) for 14 days, and scopolamine (1 mg/kg/day) was injected intraperitoneally before subjecting them to behavior tests. CT-administered mice showed better novel object recognition and working memory ability than scopolamine-treated control mice. In T-maze and Morris water maze tests, CT (100 and 200 mg/kg/day) significantly increased space perceptive ability and occupancy to the target quadrant, respectively. In addition, 100 and 200 mg/kg/day of CT attenuated cholinergic dysfunction through inhibition of butyryl cholinesterase in brain tissue. Furthermore, CT-administered mice showed higher cyclic adenosine monophosphate-response element-binding protein (CREB) levels and lower amyloid precursor protein (APP) levels compared to scopolamine-treated control mice. Conclusions: CT improved scopolamine-induced memory impairment through inhibition of cholinergic dysfunction, up-regulation of CREB, and down-regulation of APP. Therefore, CT could be a useful therapeutic agent for AD with protective effects on cognitive impairment.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제27권1A호
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• pp.80-88
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• 2002

영상과 그래픽 및 비디오와 같은 시각 매체들을 실시간으로 처리하기 위한 구현 기술과 그에 따른 확정성 측면에서 많은 연구들이 진행되고 있는데, 이러한 연구들은 영상처리 전용 프로세서 구현부터 다양한 매체들을 함께 처리할 수 있는 프로세서 구현을 포함하는 범주까지 진행되고 있다. 또한, 다양한 병렬처리 기법들이 실시간 처리를 위한 프로세서의 구현에 적용되고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 시각매체들을 실시간으로 처리하기 위하여 메모리 시스템과 다수개의 처리기로 구성된 pipelined SIMD 구조를 갖는 병렬처리시스템을 제안한다. 메모리시스템은 m개의 메모리 모듈과 메모리 제어기로 구성되어 있는 다중접근 기억장치로써, m개의 메모리 모듈에서 병렬로 n(=p${\times}$q)개의 데이터에 접근하기 위한 다양한 형태, 즉, 행(1${\times}$pq)과 열(pq${\times}$1) 및 블록 (p${\times}$q) 접근을 제공한다. 제안한 병렬처리시스템에 얼굴인식과 퐁 음영 및 동영상에서의 자동영상분할을 적용하여 시스템 성능을 분석하였다.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.583-592
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• 2023

Background: Alcohol is one of the most commonly used psychoactive drugs. Due to its addictive characteristics, many people struggle with the side effects of alcohol. Korean Red Ginseng (KRG) is a traditional herbal medicine that is widely used to treat various health problems. However, the effects and mechanisms of KRG in alcohol-induced responses remain unclear. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of KRG in alcohol-induced responses. Methods: We investigated two aspects: alcohol-induced addictive responses and spatial working memory impairments. To determine the effects of KRG in alcohol-induced addictive responses, we performed conditioned place preference tests and withdrawal symptom observations. To assess the effects of KRG in alcohol-induced spatial working memory impairment, Y-maze, Barnes maze, and novel object recognition tests were performed using mice after repeated alcohol and KRG exposure. To investigate the potential mechanism of KRG activity, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and western blot analysis were performed. Results: KRG-treated mice showed dose-dependent restoration of impaired spatial working memory following repeated alcohol exposure. Furthermore, withdrawal symptoms to alcohol were reduced in mice treated with KRG and alcohol. The PKA-CREB signaling pathway was activated after alcohol administration, which was reduced by KRG. However, the levels of inflammatory cytokines were increased by alcohol and decreased by KRG. Conclusion: Taken together, KRG may alleviate alcohol-induced spatial working memory impairments and addictive responses through anti-neuroinflammatory activity rather than through the PKA-CREB signaling pathway.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2024

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) has memory impairment associated with aggregation of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. Although anti-amyloid β (Aβ) protein antibody and chemical drugs can be prescribed in the clinic, they show adverse effects or low effectiveness. Therefore, the development of a new drug is necessarily needed. We focused on the cognitive function of Panax ginseng and tried to find active ingredient(s). We isolated panaxcerol D, a kind of glycosyl glyceride, from the non-saponin fraction of P. ginseng extract. Methods: We explored effects of acute or sub-chronic administration of panaxcerol D on cognitive function in scopolamine- or Aβ_25-35 peptide-treated mice measured by several behavioral tests. After behavioral tests, we tried to unveil the underlying mechanism of panaxcerol D on its cognitive function by Western blotting. Results: We found that pananxcerol D reversed short-term, long-term and object recognition memory impairments. The decreased extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK) or Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) in scopolamine-treated mice was normalized by acute administration of panaxcerol D. Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), caspase 3, NF-kB p65, synaptophysin and brainderived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) expression levels in Aβ_25-35 peptide-treated mice were modulated by sub-chronic administration of panaxcerol D. Conclusion: Pananxcerol D could improve memory impairments caused by cholinergic blockade or Aβ accumulation through increased phosphorylation level of ERK or its anti-inflammatory effect. Thus, panaxcerol D as one of non-saponin compounds could be used as an active ingredient of P. ginseng for improving cognitive function.

• 한국실내디자인학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국실내디자인학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.270-274
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• 2007

Clearing trace of symbol which was gone with a series of pre-modern architecture history since the modern architecture (pursuing true nature from tradition which is repeated and imitated unconsciously). That is, What is the course of deconstruction? In the early part of the 20th century, We still accept the necessity of decoration in spite of its existence at one time being threaten. This means, even though symbolism in architecture has relative importance by situation of Times, it plays an important role to add the past to current style through 'Symbol'. The history of Times, a carrier which reflects Present on New Futures, makes memory by gathering data but we can not amplify our historical imagination with only data. Data is a past memory and evidence but we can not substitute that for historical experience. And it is difficult for future generations who don't live through that history to change their historical recognition with recollecting memories. They have to draw history with data but it is very limited in itself. However, They can collect historical memory through symbol in architecture. In this study, We pay attention to the symbolism of a memorial hall architecture. So We'll analyze dichotomy concept of Barthes's signifiant and signifie, visual sign and course of symbolic meaning on basis of Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제31B권9호
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• pp.159-165
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• 1994

In this paper, we propose a multi-layer associative neural network structure suitable for hardware implementaion with the function of performance refinement and improved robutst capability. Unlike other methods which reduce network complexity by putting restrictions on synaptic weithts, we are imposing a requirement of hidden layer neurons for the function. The proposed network has synaptic weights obtainted by Hebbian rule between adjacent layer's memory patterns such as Kosko's BAM. This network can be extended to arbitary multi-layer network trainable with Genetic algorithm for getting hidden layer memory patterns starting with initial random binary patterns. Learning is done to minimize newly defined network error. The newly defined error is composed of the errors at input, hidden, and output layers. After learning, we have bidirectional recall process for performance improvement of the network with one-shot recall. Experimental results carried out on pattern recognition problems demonstrate its performace according to the parameter which represets relative significance of the hidden layer error over the sum of input and output layer errors, show that the proposed model has much better performance than that of Kosko's bidirectional associative memory (BAM), and show the performance increment due to the bidirectionality in recall process.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제52호
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• pp.111-120
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• 2004

This paper focuses on the DSP implementation of an HMM-based speech recognizer that can handle several hundred words of vocabulary size as well as speaker independency. First, we develop an HMM-based speech recognition system on the PC that operates on the frame basis with parallel processing of feature extraction and Viterbi decoding to make the processing delay as small as possible. Many techniques such as linear discriminant analysis, state-based Gaussian selection, and phonetic tied mixture model are employed for reduction of computational burden and memory size. The system is then properly optimized and compiled on the TMS320C6711 DSP for real-time operation. The implemented system uses 486kbytes of memory for data and acoustic models, and 24.5 kbytes for program code. Maximum required time of 29.2 ms for processing a frame of 32 ms of speech validates real-time operation of the implemented system.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제34C권10호
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• pp.59-66
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• 1997

Neural networks has widely been be used for several practical applications such as speech, image processing, and pattern recognition. Thus, a approach to the voltage-controlled current source in areas of neural networks, the key features of CNN in locally connected only to its netighbors. Because the architecture of the interconnection elements between cells in very simple and space invariant, CNNs are suitable for VLSI implementation. In this paper, processing element of digital programmable CNN with variable template memory was implemented using CMOS circuit. CNN PE circuit was designe dto control gain for obtaining the optimal solutions in the CNN output. Performance of operation for 4*4 CNN circuit applied for fixed template and variable template analyzed with the result of simulation using HSPICE tool. As a result of simulations, the proposed variable template method verified to improve performance of operation in comparison with the fixed template method.