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Enhancement Techniques of Color Segmentation for Detecting Missing Persons in Smart Lighting System using Radar and Camera Sensors (레이다 및 카메라 내장형 스마트 조명에서 실종자 탐지용 색상 검출 향상 기법)

  • Song, Seungeon;Kim, Sangdong;Jin, Young-Seok;Lee, Jonghun
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.53-59
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    • 2020
  • This paper proposes color segmentation for detecting missing persons in a smart lighting system using radar and camera sensors. Recently, smart lighting systems built-in radar and cameras have been efficient in saving energy and searching for missing persons, simultaneously. In smart lighting systems, radar detects moving objects and then the lights turn on and camera records. The video recorded is useful to find out missing persons. The color of their clothes worn in missing persons is one of critical hints to look for missing persons. Therefore, color segmentation is an effective means for detecting the color of their clothes. In this paper, during the color segmentation step, the ROI(Region of interest) setting based on the size of an object is applied and the background is reduced. According to experimental results, the color segmentation has good accuracy of more than 97%.

A Study on the Fog Detecting System Using Photo Sensor (광센서를 이용한 안개 탐지 시스템 연구)

  • No, Byeang-Su;Kim, Kab-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.643-648
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we developed a system which can detect and can alarm about the sailing provocative climate by using a photo. The research on domestic shipbuilding industry and in IT fusion technology is under construction, but a reliable safety device which can alarm a sailor about the circumstances of the fog and rain during ship operation as soon as possible due to the constant state in domestic. In this paper, a compact, for system low-power transceiver and data processing equipment for sensing were developed, also a performance evaluation got accomplished with simulation analysis. In results, it is operating normally at least 32.36[dB] and maximum values f 89.20[dB] in the domestic, and 32.55 to 60.66[dB] in the outdoors.

Quality Assessment Model for Practical Wearable Computers (실용적 웨어러블 컴퓨터 품질평가모델)

  • Oh, Cheon-Seok;Choi, Jae-Hyun;Kim, Jong-Bae;Park, Jea-Won
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.39B no.12
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    • pp.842-855
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    • 2014
  • Recently, the progress of smart phone market has retarded by oversupply therefore wearable computer has been the focus of new growth engine. Wearable computing system is a complex fusion of a variety of technologies such as wireless network, embedded, sensor and new material. Because these technologies involves utilization and mobility in addition to quality characteristic in existing software, application of ISO/IEC 9126 is not perfect when assessing quality of wearable computer. In this study, author suggested new quality assessment model for wearable computer by sorting quality attribute in ISO/IEC 9126 and adding new quality attribute. For this, author investigated features and functional requirements related to wearable computer. and then author suggested quality standard and metrics by identifying quality characteristic. Author confirmed practicality of quality assessment model by using suggested model in scenario and comparing quality assessment of three goods such as company S, L, G. This quality assessment model is expected to use guidelines for assessing quality of wearable computer.

Implementation of RF Frequency Synthesizer for IEEE 802.15.4g SUN System (IEEE 802.15.4g SUN 시스템용 RF 주파수 합성기의 구현)

  • Kim, Dong-Shik;Yoon, Won-Sang;Chai, Sang-Hoon;Kang, Ho-Yong
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.53 no.12
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2016
  • This paper describes implementation of the RF frequency synthesizer with $0.18{\mu}m$ silicon CMOS technology being used as an application of the IEEE802.15.4g SUN sensor node transceiver modules. Design of the each module like VCO, prescaler, 1/N divider, ${\Delta}-{\Sigma}$ modulator, and common circuits of the PLL has been optimized to obtain high speed and low noise performance. Especially, the VCO has been designed with NP core structure and 13 steps cap-bank to get high speed, low noise, and wide band tuning range. The output frequencies of the implemented synthesizer is 1483MHz~2017MHz, the phase noise of the synthesizer is -98.63dBc/Hz at 100KHz offset and -122.05dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset.

Implementation of Intelligent and Human-Friendly Home Service Robot (인간 친화적인 가정용 지능형 서비스 로봇 구현)

  • Choi, Woo-Kyung;Kim, Seong-Joo;Kim, Jong-Soo;Jeo, Jae-Yong;Jeon, Hong-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.720-725
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    • 2004
  • Robot systems have applied to manufacturing or industrial field for reducing the need for human presence in dangerous and/or repetitive tasks. However, robot applications are transformed from industrial field to human life in recent tendency Nowadays, final goal of robot is to make a intelligent robot that can understand what human say and learn by itself and have internal emotion. For example Home service robots are able to provice functions such as security, housework, entertainment, education and secretary To provide various functions, home robots need to recognize human`s requirement and environment, and it is indispensable to use artificial intelligence technology for implementation of home robots. In this paper, implemented robot system takes data from several sensors and fuses the data to recognize environment information. Also, it can select a proper behavior for environment using soft computing method. Each behavior is composed with intuitive motion and sound in order to let human realize robot behavior well.

Thermal Image Real-time estimation and Fire Alarm by using a CCD Camera (CCD 카메라를 이용한 열화상 실시간 추정과 화재경보)

  • Baek, Dong-Hyun
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.92-98
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    • 2016
  • This study evaluated thermal image real-time estimation and fire alarm using by a CCD camera, which has been a seamless feature-point analysis method, according to the angle and position and image fusion by a vector coordinate point set-up of equal shape. The system has higher accuracy, fixing data value of temperature sensing and fire image of 0~255, and sensor output-value of 0~5,000. The operation time of a flame specimen within 500 m, 1000 m, and 1500 m from the test report specimen took 7 s, 26 s, and 62 s, respectively, and image creation was proven. A diagnosis of fire accident was designated to 3 steps: Caution/Alarm/Fire. Therefore, a series of process and the transmission of SNS were identified. A light bulb and fluorescent bulb were also tested for a false alarm test, but no false alarm occurred. The possibility that an unwanted alarm will be reduced was verified through a forecast of the fire progress or real-time estimation of a thermal image by the change in the image of a time-based flame and an analysis of the diffusion velocity.

A Study on the Design and Performance of Integrated-Optic Biosensor utilizing the Multimode Interferometer based on Si3N4 Rib-Optical Waveguide and Evanescent-Wave (Si3N4 립-광도파로 기반 다중모드 간섭기와 소산파를 이용하는 집적광학 바이오센서 설계 및 성능에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Hong sik
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.409-418
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, an integrated optical, evanescent-wave biosensor utilizing a multimode interferometer based on a Si3N4 rib-optical waveguide consisting of the Si/SiO2/Si3N4/SiO2 stacked structure was described. The theoretical background of the multimode interferometer was reviewed, and the structure and design process were presented through numerical computational analysis. We analyzed how the dimension (length, width) of the multimode interferometer affected the sensor performance. It has been confirmed through computational analysis that the changes in the refractive index of an analyte greatly affect the mode pattern formation position and output optical power of a multimode interferometer, and proved that this principle could be applied to integrated-optic biosensor.

Isolation and Characterization of a Gene Encoding Hexokinase from Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.)

  • Qin, Qiaoping;Zhang, Lanlan;Xu, Kai;Jiang, Li;Cheng, Longjun;Xu, Chuanmei;Cui, Yongyi
    • Horticultural Science & Technology
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.243-249
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    • 2012
  • Hexokinase is the first enzyme in the hexose assimilation pathway; it acts as a sensor for plant sugar responses, and it is also important in determining the fruit sugar levels. The full-length cDNA of a hexokinase gene was isolated from loquat through reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and rapid amplification of cDNA ends, which was designated as EjHXK1. EjHXK1 is 1,839 bp long and contains an entire open reading frame encoding 497 amino acids. The predicted protein of EjHXK1 shares 72%-81% similarity with other plant hexokinases. Phylogeny analysis indicated that EjHXK1 is closely related to maize and rice hexokinases. Transient expression of the 35S: EjHXK1-GFP fusion protein was observed on the cell membrane and cytoplasm. Real-time RT-PCR indicated that EjHXK1 is expressed in loquat leaves, stems, flowers, and fruits. EjHXK1 transcripts were higher during early fruit development, but decreases before maturation, which is consistent with hexokinase enzyme activity during fruit development and conducive for hexose accumulation in mature fruits. These results imply that EjHXK1 may play important roles in the regulation of sugar flux during fruit ripening.

Applicability of Optical Flow Information for UAV Navigation under GNSS-denied Environment (위성항법 불용 환경에서의 무인비행체 항법을 위한 광류 정보 활용)

  • Kim, Dongmin;Kim, Taegyun;Jeaong, Hoijo;Suk, Jinyoung;Kim, Seungkeun;Kim, Younsil;Han, Sanghyuck
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.16-27
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    • 2020
  • This paper investigates the applicability of optical flow information for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation under environments where global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is unavailable. Since the optical flow information is one of important measurements to estimate horizontal velocity and position, accuracy of the optical flow information must be guaranteed. So a navigation algorithm, which can estimate and cancel biases that the optical flow information may have, is suggested to improve the estimation performance. In order to apply and verify the proposed algorithm, an integrated simulation environment is built by designing a guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system. Numerical simulations are implemented to analyze the navigation performance using this environment.

Low Temperature Hermetic Packaging using Localized Beating (부분 가열을 이용한 저온 Hermetic 패키징)

  • 심영대;김영일;신규호;좌성훈;문창렬;김용준
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.1033-1036
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    • 2002
  • Wafer bonding methods such as fusion and anodic bonding suffer from high temperature treatment, long processing time, and possible damage to the micro-scale sensor or actuators. In the localized bonding process, beating was conducted locally while the whole wafer is maintained at a relatively low temperature. But previous research of localized heating has some problems, such as non-uniform soldering due to non-uniform heating and micro crack formation on the glass capsule by thermal stress effect. To address this non-uniformity problem, a new heater configuration is being proposed. By keeping several points on the heater strip at calculated and constant potential, more uniform heating, hence more reliable wafer bonding could be achieved. The proposed scheme has been successfully demonstrated, and the result shows that it will be very useful in hermetic packaging. Less than 0.2 ㎫ contact Pressure were used for bonding with 150 ㎃ current input for 50${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ width, 2${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ height and 8mm $\times$ 8mm, 5mm$\times$5mm, 3mm $\times$ 3mm sized phosphorus-doped poly-silicon micro heater. The temperature can be raised at the bonding region to 80$0^{\circ}C$, and it was enough to achieve a strong and reliable bonding in 3minutes. The IR camera test results show improved uniformity in heat distribution compared with conventional micro heaters. For gross leak check, IPA (Isopropanol Alcohol) was used. Since IPA has better wetability than water, it can easily penetrate small openings, and is more suitable for gross leak check. The pass ratio of bonded dies was 70%, for conventional localized heating, and 85% for newly developed FP scheme. The bonding strength was more than 30㎫ for FP scheme packaging, which shows that FP scheme can be a good candidate for micro scale hermetic packaging.

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