• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.31B no.6
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• pp.17-24
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• 1994

This paper is a study on Korean word recognition and suggest the method that stabilizes the state-transition in the HMM by applying the `inertia' to the feature vector sequences. In order to reduce the quantized distortion considering probability distribution of input vectors, we used SOFM, an unsupervised learning method, as a vector quantizer, By applying inertia to the feature vector sequences, the overlapping of probability distributions for the response path of each word on the self organizing feature map can be reduced and the state-transition in the Hmm can be Stabilized. In order to evaluate the performance of the method, we carried out experiments for 50 DDD area names. The results showed that applying inertia to the feature vector sequence improved the recognition rate by 7.4% and can make more HMMs available without reducing the recognition rate for the SOFM having the fixed number of neuron.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.286-294
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• 2001

In this study, 3-D underwater object recognition using the self-made 3-3 type composite ultrasonic transducer and modified SOFM(Self Organizing Feature Map) neural network are investigated. Properties of the self-made 3-3 type composite specimens are satisfied considerably with requirements as an underwater ultrasonic transducer's materials. 3-D underwater all object's recognition rates obtained from both the training data and testing data in different objects, such as a rectangular block, regular triangular block, square block and cylinderical block, were 100% and 94.0%, respectively. All object's recognition rates are obtained by utilizing the self-made 3-3 type composite transducer and SOFM neural network. From the object recognition rates, it could be seen that an ultrasonic transducer fabricated with the self-made 3-3 type composite resonator will be able to have application for the underwater object recognition.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.137-142
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• 1995

코호넨의 SOFM(Self-Organizing Feature Map)온 빠른 검증 학습이 가능하여 다층 퍼셉트론의 단점을 보완할 수 있는 패턴분류기로 부각되고 있다. 그러나 기본적으로 고정된 크기와 구조의 네트워크를 사용하기 때문에 실재 문제에 적용하기가 쉽지 않다는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 패턴에 대한 사전 정보없이 복잡한 패턴공간을 적응적으로 분할하기 위해 구조적응되는 자기조직화 신경망을 소개하고 이를 인쇄체 한글 문자의 인식에 적용한 결과를 보여준다. 여기에서 제안하는 신경망은 SOFM의 각 셀이 좀더 자세한 SOFM으로 확장될 수 있도록하며, 확률분포가 0인 셀을 제거함으로써 패턴 공간에 보다 근사한 분류를 가능하게 한다. 실제로 이러한 방식이 한글과 같은 복잡한 분류 문제에서 어떻게 작동하는지 설명하고, 한글 완성형 2350자에 대해 실험한 결과를 보여준다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.30B no.8
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• pp.64-70
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• 1993

This paper presents an efficient SOFM(self-organizing feature map) algorithm for the solution of the large scale TSPs(traveling salesman problems). Because no additional winner neuron for each city is created in the next competition, the proposed algorithm requires just only the N output neurons and 2N connections, which are fixed during the whole process, for N-city TSP, and it does not requires any extra algorithm of creation of deletion of the neurons. And due to direct exploitation of the output potential in adaptively controlling the neighborhood, the proposed algorithm can obtain higher convergence rate to the suboptimal solutions. Simulation results show about 30% faster convergence and better solution than the conventional algorithm for solving the 30-city TSP and even for the large scale of 1000-city TSPs.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.34-45
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• 1997

In this paper, we present hardware implemcntation of self-organizing feature map (SOFM) neural networkwith constant adaptation gain and binary reinforcement function on FPGA. Whereas a tnme-varyingadaptation gain is used in the conventional SOFM, the proposed SOFM has a time-invariant adaptationgain and adds a binary reinforcement function in order to compensate for the lowered abilityof SOFM due to the constant adaptation gain. Since the proposed algorithm has no multiplication operation.it is much easier to implement than the original SOFM. Since a unit neuron is composed of 1adde $r_tracter and 2 adders, its structure is simple, and thus the number of neurons fabricated onFPGA is expected to he large. In addition, a few control signal: ;:rp sufficient for controlling !he neurons.Experimental results show that each componeni ot thi inipiemented neural network operates correctlyand the whole system also works well.stem also works well.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06a
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• pp.1046-1051
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• 1994

It is known that SOFM has the property of effectively creating topographically the organized map of various features on input signals, SOFM can effectively be applied to the recognition of Korean phonemes. However, is isn't guaranteed that the network is sufficiently learned in SOFM algorithm. In order to solve this problem, we propose the learning algorithm combined with the conventional K-means clustering algorithm in fine-tuning stage. To evaluate the proposed algorithm, we performed speaker dependent recognition experiment using six phoneme classes. Comparing the performances of the Kohonen's algorithm with a proposed algorithm, we prove that the proposed algorithm is better than the conventional SOFM algorithm.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 1998.09a
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• pp.201-206
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• 1998

In this paper, we have considered the method for clustering land cover types over the East Asia from AVHRR data. The feature vectors such that maximum NDVI, amplitude of NDVI, mean NDVI, and NDVI threshold are extracted from the 10-day composite by maximum value composite(MVC) for reducing the effect of cloud contaninations. To find the land cover clusters given by the feature vectors, we are adapted the self-organizing feature map(SOFM) clustering which is the mapping of an input vector space of n-dimensions into a one - or two-dimensional grid of output layer. The approach is to find first the clusters by the first layer SOFM and then merge several clusters of the first layer to a large cluster by the second layer SOFM. In experiments, we were used the 8-km AVHRR data for two years(1992-1993) over the East Asia.

• Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.71-76
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• 2014

Improving lecture quality is very necessary for the service quality of education in universities, enterprises and education institutes. The student lecture evaluation survey data is a good tool for measuring lecture quality and have been often analyzed by simple statistical methods. This study presents an intelligent lecture quality improvement method that can improve student's overall satisfaction and performance by analyzing student lecture evaluation survey data. The method uses SOFM (Self-Organizing Feature Map) neural network and C4.5 to find the patterns in student's satisfaction and performance more correctly and then decide what to change in the lecture for the improvement of student's satisfaction and performance. We apply the proposed method to an enterprise lecture in Korea. We can find that it can improve the quality of an enterprise lecture by changing total lecture time, lecture material and organization of lecture schedule to be necessary improvements.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.1144-1148
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• 2010

오염원이 집중되는 도시지역에서의 비점오염원에 대한 관리대책은 점오염원에 비하여 미비한 실정이다. 따라서 도시 지역의 비점오염원 부하량의 합리적인 조사, 비점오염물질 저감을 위한 관리기술 개발과 아울러 정책의 개발 등이 필요하며, 도시지역에서의 장기적인 비점오염물질 유출에 관한 모니터링을 통한 비점오염물질 원단위 조사가 절실히 요구되고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 상업 및 위락시설지역의 비점오염원 유출특성을 분석하기 위해 2008년 4월부터 2009년 10월까지 실측에 의해 측정된 강우량과 유출량 자료를 이용하여 비점오염원 유출특성을 분석하였다. 또한 본 연구에서는 자기 조직화 특성지도(Self-Organizing Feature Map: SOFM) 이론을 적용하여 측정된 유출 및 수질자료에 대해 패턴분류를 수행하여 분할구역별 자료의 특성분석을 통해 초기강우 특성이 구분되어짐을 확인 할 수 있었다. 그러나 현재 축적된 자료에 대한 양적인 한계로 인해 명확한 구분이 이루어지지 않는 항목도 있었으나, 향후 지속적인 모니터링을 통해 충분한 자료가 축적될 경우 초기강우 기준을 위한 새로운 접근방법으로 제시될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.34C no.1
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• pp.59-64
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• 1997

By using a selective learnable self-organizing feature map(SOFM) a more practical and generalized mehtod is proposed in which the effective nonlinear shape restoration is possible regardless of the existence of the distortion modelss. Nonlinear mapping relation is extracted from the distorted imate by using the proposed selective learning SOFGM which has the special property of effectively creating spatially organized internal representations and nonlinear relations of various input signals. For the exact extraction of the mapping relations between the distorted image and the original one, we define a disparity index as a proximal nmeasure of the present state to the final idealy trained state of the SOFM, and we used this index to adjust the training of the mapping relations form the weights of the SOFM. Simulations are conducted on various kinds of distorted images with or without distortion models, and the results show that the proposed method is very efficeint very efficient and practical in nonlinear shape restorations.