• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.22-40
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• 1995

Thermomechanical characteristics of rocks such as thermal shock, thermal expansion, thermal cracking were experimentally investigaed using Iksan granite, Cheonan tonalite and Chung-ju dolomite to obtain the basic data for proper design and Chung-ju dolomite to obtain the basic data for proper design and stability analysis of underground structures subjected to temperature changes. The effect of thermal shock did not appear when the heating speed was under 3$^{\circ}C$/min. and there existed little difference between multi-staged cyclic heating and single-cycled heating. Thermal expansion of rocks was affected by mineral composition, crack porosity and the degree of thermal craking. In quartz-beraring multimineralic rocks such as Iksan granite and Cheonan tonalite, the thermal expansion coefficient increaseed continuously with temperature rise, but that of Chung-ju dolomite which was a monomineralic rock showed a constant value for the temperature above 250$^{\circ}C$, Chung-ju dolomite yielded the lowest critical threshold temperature(Tc) of 100$^{\circ}C$ and unstable thermal cracking was initiated above the new threshold temperature(Tc')of 300$^{\circ}C$. Above Tc' thermal cracks grew but they were not interconnected. Iksan granite showed closing of microcracks to the temperature of 100$^{\circ}C$, then expanded linearly to Tc of 200$^{\circ}C$. Above Tc, thermal cracking was initiated and progressed rapidly and almost all the grain boundaries were cracked at 600$^{\circ}C$. Cheonan tonalite also showed similar behavior to iksan granite except that Tc was 350$^{\circ}C$ and that thermal cracks propagated more rapidly. Thermal expansions calculated by Turner's equation were found to be valid in predicting the thermal expansion and cracking behavior of rocks.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.79-85
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• 2018

This study focuses on autonomous exploration based on map expansion for an underwater robot equipped with acoustic sonars. Map expansion is applicable to large-area mapping, but it may affect localization accuracy. Thus, as the key contribution of this paper, we propose a method for underwater autonomous exploration wherein the robot determines the trade-off between map expansion ratio and position accuracy, selects which of the two has higher priority, and then moves to a mission step. An occupancy grid map is synthesized by utilizing the measurements of an acoustic range sonar that determines the probability of occupancy. This information is then used to determine a path to the frontier, which becomes the new search point. During area searching and map building, the robot revisits artificial landmarks to improve its position accuracy as based on imaging sonar-based recognition and EKF-SLAM if the position accuracy is above the predetermined threshold. Additionally, real-time experiments were conducted by using an underwater robot, yShark, to validate the proposed method, and the analysis of the results is discussed herein.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.42-48
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• 2002

Multiple description coding Is source coding for multiple channels such that a decoder which receives an arbitrary subset of the channels may produce a useful reconstruction. This paper presents an efficient multiple description coder using a newly designed EZW coding method. We first propose EZW coder which has expanded threshold and two subordinate passes. And then we present multiple description coder which has two coding channels using the proposed EZW coders. To evaluate the performance of the proposed coder, we provide an image coding applications with two descriptions and compare multiple description image coding results reported to date. Simulation results show that the proposed method has a better performance than the polyphase transform method.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.280-293
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• 1972

The differential fast neutron spectra above 0.5 Mev at particular spatial positions in tile reactor(TRIGA MARK-II) core has been determined experimentally using several threshold activation detectors. The series expansion technique utilizing the concept of least squares optimization was used to obtain an approximate solution to the set of integral equations which are defined by the experimentally determined activation data. The influence of use of different weighting functions in the solution was analyzed in each measurement. To carry out the necessary mathematical calculations, a computer code for the UNIVAC 1106 digital computer has been prepared. Good agreement was achieved between the differential fast neutron spectra determined in this work and the computed flux determined independently using space-independent multigroup transport theory.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2005

In this paper, an effective skeleton method is proposed in order to obtain an enhanced digital image of skeleton line. The binary image using the threshold values is applied in the preprocessing stage and then The proposed method is applied to obtain the improved image of skeleton line. We used the existing skeleton methods and SPTA(Shin's Parallel Thinning Algorithm) method for the comparison. The demerits of the existing skeleton methods have a result of noise branch, expansion and contraction. and then we are proposed a SPTA method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.13-18
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• 1984

The probability distribution of hold-in time and that of the time to reject false lock are investigated for the tracking procedure in spread spectrum communication systems. These are helpful in deciding dwell time and threshold level of correlatoi circuits. The probability distributions are derived by series expansion of generating function for discrete probability function and summation of the coefficients for corresponding terms. And the formulas described by general system parameters are obtained.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.407-412
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• 2002

With the increasing availability of information in electronic form, it becomes more important and feasible to have automatic methods to retrieve relevant information in the internet. A deficiency of traditional information retrieval systems is that search terms are often different from those indexed by the systems. Thus, user may either retrieve wrong information or miss what they really want. In this paper, we used an automatic query expansion based on term distribution to enhance the performance of information retrieval. Also this thesis proposed the method for setting the threshold according to area distribution in order to choose additional terns.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.39-46
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• 2019

This paper proposes an adaptive threshold watershed algorithm, which is the method used for image segmentation and boundary detection, which extends the region on the basis of regional minimum point. First, apply adaptive thresholds to determine regional minimum points. Second, it extends the region by applying adaptive thresholds based on determined regional minimum points. Traditional watershed algorithms create over-segmentation, resulting in the disadvantages of breaking boundaries between regions. These segmentation results mainly from the boundary of the object, creating an inaccurate region. To solve these problems, this paper applies an improved watershed algorithm applied with adaptive threshold in regional minimum point search and region expansion in order to reduce over-segmentation and breaking the boundary of region. This resulted in over-segmentation suppression and the result of having the boundary of precisely divided regions. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can apply adaptive thresholds to reduce the number of segmented regions and see that the segmented boundary parts are correct.

• The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.168-171
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• 2000

VO$_2$ceramics exhibiting a negative temperature coefficient (NTC) of resistivity have been widely used as temperature dependence resistors. The NTC effect similar to $VO_2$ceramics was observed when a low-thermal-expansion ceramic matrix was loaded near the percolation threshold with conductive metal particles. The resistivity in a composite made from silica glass and 20 vol% Ag filler suddenly decreased from $10^{-7}$ to $10^3\;\Omega$cm at about $300^{\circ}C$.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.655-670
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• 2010

To be reversible as a data hiding method, the original content and hidden message should be completely recovered. One important objective of this approach is to achieve high embedding capacity and low distortion. Using predicted errors is very effective for increasing the embedding capacity. Sorting the predicted errors has a good influence on decreasing distortion. In this paper, we present an improved reversible data hiding scheme using upgraded histogram shifting based on sorting the predicted errors. This new scheme is characterized by the algorithm which is able to find the optimum threshold values and manage the location map effectively. Experimental results compared with other methods are presented to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method.