• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.76-83
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• 2004

This study aimed to empirically investigate perceived discomfort depending upon external load, upper limb postures and their holding time. Discomfort was obtained through an experiment, in which external load, wrist flexion/extension, elbow flexion, shoulder flexion and adduction/abduction were used as experimental variables. The subjects were instructed to hold given postures for 60s and to rate their subjective discomfort scores at 5s, 20s, 40s and 60s by using the free modulus method of magnitude estimation. The results showed that while only external load and elbow flexion were statistically significant at the holding time of 5s at ${\alpha}=0.05$ or 0.10, external load and upper limb postures excluding shoulder adduction/abduction significantly affected discomfort ratings at 20s, 40s and 60s at ${\alpha}=0.01$ or 0.05. Discomfort scores were also significantly different between four posture holding times at ${\alpha}=0.01$. The effects of external load and holding time were much larger than those of upper limb postures. Based on the results of this study, it is recommended that external load and holding time as well as working postures betaken into consideration to precisely quantify postural load in industry.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제10권4_5호
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• pp.471-483
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• 2012

In this paper, the structural health monitoring (SHM) benchmark problem of the Canton tower is studied. Based on the field monitoring data from the 20 accelerometers deployed on the tower, some modal frequencies and mode shapes at measured degrees of freedom of the tower are identified. Then, these identified incomplete modal data are used to update the reduced finite element (FE) model of the tower by a novel algorithm. The proposed algorithm avoids the problem of subjective selection of updated parameters and directly updates model stiffness matrix without model reduction or modal expansion approach. Only the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the normal finite element models corresponding to the measured modes are needed in the computation procedures. The updated model not only possesses the measured modal frequencies and mode shapes but also preserves the modal frequencies and modes shapes in their normal values for the unobserved modes. Updating results including the natural frequencies and mode shapes are compared with the experimental ones to evaluate the proposed algorithm. Also, dynamic responses estimated from the updated FE model using remote senor locations are compared with the measurement ones to validate the convergence of the updated model.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.76-86
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• 2020

Technology growth curve methodology is commonly used in technology forecasting. A technology growth curve represents the paths of product performance in relation to time or investment in R&D. It is a useful tool to compare the technological performances between Korea and advanced nations and to describe the inflection points, the limit of improvement of a technology and their technology innovation strategies, etc. However, the curve fitting to a set of survey data often leads to model mis-specification, biased parameter estimation and incorrect result since data through survey with experts frequently contain outlier in process of curve fitting due to the subjective response characteristics. This paper propose a method to eliminate of outlier from a technology growth curve using M-estimator. The experimental results prove the overall improvement in technology growth curves by several pilot tests using real-data in Defense Science and Technology Survey reports.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2003

기존의 학습자 평가 시스템은 교수자의 주관적인 관점과 견해에 의해 각 문항의 난이도가 결정되는 단점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 학습자의 개별 능력 평가가 가능하고 개인별 학습 수준에 적합한 문항을 난이도, 변별도 및 추측도를 이용하여 학습자에게 제공함으로써 개인별 문항 평가가 가능한 학습자 평가 시스템을 개발하고자 한다. 본 연구의 학습자 평가 시스템은 CAT 기법의 문항 반응 이론 중 3-모수 로지스틱 모델을 이용하여 개발한다.

• 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.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.21-30
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• 2009

In low bit-rate video transmission, the payload of a single packet can often contain a whole coded frame due to the high compression ratio in both spatial and temporal domains of most modern video coders. Thus, the loss of a single packet not only causes the loss of a whole frame, but also produces error propagation into subsequent frames. In this paper, we propose a novel whole frame error concealment algorithm which reconstructs the first of the subsequent frames instead of the current lost frame to suppress the effects of error propagation. In the proposed algorithm, we impose a constraint which uses side match distortion (SMD) and overlapped region difference (ORD) to estimate motion vectors between the target reconstructed frame and its reference frame. SMD measures the spatial smoothness connection between a block and its neighboring blocks. ORD is defined as the difference between the correlated pixels which are predicted from one reference pixel. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm effectively suppresses error propagation and significantly outperforms other conventional techniques in terms of both peak signal-to-noise ratio performance and subjective visual quality.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2006

Standard safety management costs can not be applied to each site with same rate, it is very difficult, because it depends on the experience, work method, work kind, work progress schedule, and hazard level of each construction company. Therefore, this study is to find out hazard level of each work kinds through questionnaire and interview and investigate analyze the status which standard safety management costs have been used. Also, this study is to show reasonable rates of standard safety management costs in construction industry and to set up countermeasures against those problem after reviewing its status in korea with in Japan and Europe. The domestic system of standard safety management costs is not considered in the foreign country, while only related subjective items have been investigated and evaluated for this study. This study is to investigate eleven project kinds of domestic system, first, and to investigate eleven items of apartment bldg, office, civil work such as bridge, tunnel, dam, plant etc, secondly. Additionally, three items of gymnasium, railway, particular steel tower are investigated in this study. Also this study is to investigate and analyze performed costs of presently processing worker finished work so that it shows a new reasonable rate against standard safety management costs in construction industry, in order to make basial data and material to be systemized.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.655-658
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• 2009

Fractal dimension has been used for texture analysis as it is highly correlated with human perception of surface roughness and applied to quantifying the structures of wide range of objects in biology and medicine. On the other hand, the evaluation of the human skin state is based solely on the subjective assessment of clinicians; this assessment may vary from moment to moment and from rater to rater. Therefore we attempt to analysis of skin texture image using fractal dimension and discuss its application to evaluating human skin state. It can be helpful for extracting human features and also can be useful for detection of many human skin diseases. This paper presents a method to calculate fractal dimension of skin with use of camera lens magnification. We take multiple pictures frequently from skin with different camera lens magnification as a magnification factor of fractal set, and counting the number of objects (cells) in each picture as a number of self similar pieces of fractal set.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제24권12A호
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• pp.2025-2033
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 IMT-2000 서비스의 상용화 실시 시기를 전문가 의견을 바탕으로 하여 예측한 결과 2001년 2월경에 첫 서비스를 실시할 것으로 나타나 전문가들은 대체로 빠른 진척을 예상하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 본 연구의 가장 중요한 부분인 IMT-2000 서비스 가입 수요예측에서는 가격 경쟁력에 대한 두 가지 경우에 따라 다른 모형을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서는 신제품에 대한 수요예측에 정성적 방법인 전문가 의견법과 정량적 방법인 성장곡선 모형을 결합하여 과거자료가 없는 신제품의 수요예측의 오차를 줄이고자 하였다. 각 성장곡선 모형에 필요한 계수를 전문가들의 주관적인 의견을 근거로 하여 추정하였다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.744-751
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 대역 확장 기법을 이용한 MP3 오디오 신호의 음질 향상 방법에 대해 살펴본다. Liu가 제안한 고주파 복원 기법을 근간으로 하여, 제안한 음질 향상 기법에서는 복원 시작 지점을 결정하는 방법과 개선된 선형 예측 방법을 제시하였다. 또한 고주파 대역 성분 생성에 저주파 성분을 복사해 이용하는 방법과 함께 AWGN을 이용하는 방법을 제시한다. 제안한 방법은 주관적 음질 평가를 통하여 MP3 오디오의 품질을 개선시킬 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.