• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.3-15
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• 2014

An articulatory study (using an Electromagnetic Articulography, EMA) was conducted to explore effects of prosodic boundary strength (Intonational Phrase/IP versus Word/Wd), and focus (Focused/accented, Neutral, Unfocused/unaccented) on the kinematic realization of /m/ in the coda (${\ldots}$am#i${\ldots}$) and the onset (${\ldots}$a#mi${\ldots}$) conditions in Korean. (Here # refers to a prosodic boundary such as an IP or a Wd boundary). Several important points have emerged. First, the boundary effect on /m/s was most robustly observed in the temporal dimension in both the coda (IP-final) and the onset (IP-initial) conditions, generally in line with cross-linguistically observable boundary-related lengthening patterns. Crucially, however, in contrast with boundary-related slowing-down effects that have been observed in English, both the IP-final and IP-initial temporal expansions of Korean /m/s were not accompanied by an articulatory slowing down. They were, if anything, associated with a faster movement in the lip opening (release) phase (into the vowel). This suggests that the mechanisms underlying boundary-related temporal expansions may differ between languages. Second, observed boundary-induced strengthening effects (both spatial and temporal expansions, especially on the IP-initial /m/s) were remarkably similar to prominence (focus)-induced strengthening effects, which is again counter to phrase-initial strengthening patterns observed in English in which boundary effects are dissociated from prominent effects. This suggests that initial syllables in Korean may be a common focus for both boundary and prominence marking. These results, taken together, imply that the boundary-induced strengthening in Korean is different in nature from that in English, each being modulated by the individual language's prosodic system. Third, the coda and the onset /m/s were found to be produced in a subtly but significantly different way even in a Wd boundary condition, a potentially neutralizing (resyllabification) context. This suggests that although the coda may be phonologically 'resyllabified' into the following syllable in a phrase-medial position, its underlying syllable affiliation is kinematically distinguished from the onset.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.19-25
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• 2017

The current study focused on the production of geminate nasal consonants across different word boundary types in Korean as a function of speech style to investigate whether temporal properties are preserved across varying speaking rates. Assimilated geminates in Korean, known as true geminates, are produced with distinctively longer consonant duration compared to singletons. Despite a large body of literature for geminates across different languages, geminates in Korean have been relatively less investigated with respect to the durational patterns in relative terms and temporal variabilities. In this study, singletons, word-internal geminates and word-boundary (fake) geminates produced by ten native Seoul Korean speakers were compared in terms of absolute consonant closure duration, preceding vowel duration, the relative ratios (consonant-to-preceding vowel duration) as well as the temporal variabilities in speech production. The results showed that word-internal geminates were produced with longer consonant duration and greater temporal variabilities than singletons and word-boundary geminates in absolute duration, indicating relatively greater flexibility in timing. However, only word-internal geminates were produced with distinctively longer consonant duration with significantly lower variability in relative duration regardless of speech styles. The results provide some insight into the representation of temporal information in the production of Korean geminate consonants.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.547-567
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• 2007

We obtain spatial-temporal decay rates of weak solutions of incompressible flows in exterior domains. When a domain has a boundary, the pressure term yields difficulties since we do not have enough information on the pressure term near the boundary. For our calculations we provide an idea which does not require any pressure information. We also estimated the spatial and temporal asymptotic behavior for strong solutions.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 학술대회지
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• pp.819-822
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• 2004

To transmit MPEG-2 video on an erroneous channel, a number of error control techniques He needed. Especially, error concealment techniques which can be implemented on receivers independent of transmitters are essential to obtain good video quality. In this paper, a motion adaptive boundary matching algorithm (MA-BMA) is presented for temporal error concealment. Before carrying out BMA, we perform error concealmmt by a motion vector prediction using neighboring motion vectors. If the candidate of error concealment is rot satisfied, search range and reliable boundary pixels are selected by the motion activity or motion vectors ane a damaged macroblock is concealed by applying the MA-BMA. This error concealment technique reduces the complexity and maintains PSNR gain of 0.3 0.7dB compared to the conventional BMA.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.12-14
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed an temporal error concealment (EC) using the proposed boundary matching method and the adaptive block matching method. The proposed boundary matching method improves the spatial correlation of the macroblocks (MBs) by reusing the pixels of the concealed MB to estimate a motion vector of a error MB. The adaptive block matching method inspects the horizontal edge and the vertical edge feature of a error MB surroundings, and it conceals the error MBs in reference to more stronger edge feature. This improves video quality by raising edge connection feature of the error MBs and the neighborhood MBs. In particular, we restore a lost MB as the unit of 8${\times}$16 block or 16${\times}$8 block by using edge feature from the surrounding macroblocks. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm gives better results than the conventional algorithms from a subjective and an objective viewpoint.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권10B호
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• pp.1070-1075
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 3차원 영상 생성을 위한 깊이맵 추정 및 중간시점 영상합성 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 깊이맵의 시간적 상관도를 향상시키기 위해 깊이값을 추정하는 과정에서 기존의 정합 함수에 이전 프레임에서 추정한 깊이값을 고려하는 가중치 함수를 추가한다. 또한, 중간시점 영상을 합성하는 과정에서 발생하는 경계 잡음을 제거하는 방법을 제안한다. 중간시점 영상을 합성할 때, 비폐색 영역을 합성한 후 경계 잡음이 발생할 수 있는 영역을 비폐색 (disocclusion) 영역을 따라 구별한 다음, 잡음이 없는 참조 영상을 이용하여 경계 잡음을 처리한다. 컴퓨터 모의실험 결과를 통해 깊이맵의 시간적 상관도를 향상시켜서 사용자의 시각적 피로감을 줄일 수 있었고, 배경 잡음이 사라진 자연스러운 중간시점 영상을 생성할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.931-956
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• 2019

Documents contain information that can be used for various applications, such as question answering (QA) system, information retrieval (IR) system, and recommendation system. To use the information, it is necessary to develop a method of extracting such information from the documents written in a form of natural language. There are several kinds of the information (e.g., temporal information, spatial information, semantic role information), where different kinds of information will be extracted with different methods. In this paper, the existing studies about the methods of extracting the temporal information are reported and several related issues are discussed. The issues are about the task boundary of the temporal information extraction, the history of the annotation languages and shared tasks, the research issues, the applications using the temporal information, and evaluation metrics. Although the history of the tasks of temporal information extraction is not long, there have been many studies that tried various methods. This paper gives which approach is known to be the better way of extracting a particular part of the temporal information, and also provides a future research direction.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.871-874
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• 1998

This paper presents a new morphological spatio-temporal segmentation algorithm. The algorithm incorporates intensity and motion information simultaneously, and uses morphological tools such as morphological filters and watershed algorithm. The procedure toward complete segmetnation consists of three steps: joint marker extraction, boundary decision, and motion-based region fusion. By incorporating spatial and temporal information simultaneously, we can obtain visually meaningful segmentation results. Simulation results demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed method.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권5C호
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• pp.683-691
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• 2004

에러가 존재하는 전송환경을 통해 MPEG-2 비디오를 전송하기 위해서는 다양한 에러 제어 기법이 필요하다. 특히, 수신 단에서 독립적으로 구현할 수 있는 에러 은닉 기법은 양질의 영상을 얻기 위해 중요한 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 매크로블록이 움직임 벡터와 함께 손상이 되었을 때 움직임 벡터 추정 및 적응적인 BMA 방법을 이용하는 시간적 에러 은닉 방법에 대해 제안한다. 복잡도가 높은 BMA를 사용하기에 앞서 주변 움직임 벡터를 이용한 움직임 벡터 추정을 통해 에러 은닉을 수행한다. 그 결과가 만족스럽지 못할 때에는 주변 매크로블록의 움직임 활동도와 움직임 리터에 따라 탐색 범위를 줄이고 신뢰도가 높은 경계화소들을 추출하는 적응적 BMA을 적용함으로써 에러 블록을 좀더 효과적으로 복원할 수 있다. 이러한 에러 은닉 방법은 기존의 BMA와 비교하여 복잡도는 줄이면서 PSNR 측면에서 0.3∼0.7㏈ 정도의 성능향상을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.55-69
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• 1999

In this paper we analyze the error estimates for a single-phase nonlinear Stefan problem with Neumann boundary conditions. We apply the modified Crank-Nicolson method to get the optimal order of error estimates in the temporal direction.