• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.77-81
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• 1996

Considering the human visual masking property, a modified relationship between the activity function and the visibility threshold is developed. This leads to a novel objective appraisal method for blocking effects in a lossy subimage coding by virtue of the human visual sensitivity. The appraisal criterion is examined using a series of reconstructed images that are DCT-coded at various bit rates. Experimental results show that the presented blocking effect measure well agrees with the subjective ranking.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.43-52
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 단일 주파수 망(Single Frequency Network: SFN)으로 ATSC(Advanced Television Systems Committee) 지상파 디지털 TV 방송을 서비스하기 위한 간섭 제거 디지털 동일 재생중계기(Interference Cancellation Digital On Channel Regenerative Repeater: IC-DOCR)에 대한 실험실 테스트 결과를 기술하고, 그 결과를 분석한다. IC-DOCR 실험실 테스트는 수신부 테스트, 송신부 테스트, 그리고 궤환 제거 테스트로 구분된다. 수신부 테스트는 랜덤 잡음, 단일 에코, 다중경로 앙상블, 인접 채널 테스트 등을 포함하고, 송신부 테스트는 대역외 방사, 송신신호의 품질, 위상 잡음 테스트 등을 포함한다. 실험실 테스트 결과에 의하면, IC-DOCR은 수신신호 보다 28dB가 높은 궤환 신호를 제거할 수 있으며, 랜덤 잡음에 대한 TOV(Threshold Of Visibility)는 17.8dB이다. 또한 송신부 출력 신호는 미국의 FCC(Federal Communications Commission)규격을 만족하고, SNR 30dB 이상의 송신신호 품질을 유지한다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.803-814
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 지상파 3D HDTV 방송 서비스를 제공하기 위해 수정된 ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) 전송 시스템 [2]을 위한 시변다중경로채널에 강인한 프레임 구조를 제안하고 성능을 측정하였다. 수정된 ATSC 전송 시스템 [2]은 기존 ATSC 전송 시스템[1]의 채널 부호화부를 수정하고, 변조 성상도를 증가 시키면서 적정한 수준의 TOV (Threshold of Visibility)에서의 전송 용량 증대 가능성을 확인하였다. 이를 토대로, 증가된 전송 데이터 전송률에 대한 순수 데이터 전송률을 최대한 보장하면서 시변다중경로채널에서 효율적으로 채널을 추정하고 복구하기 위해, ISI (Inter Symbol Interference)를 방지하기 위한 프레임 헤더의 보호구간에 알려진 PN (Pseudorandom Noise) 심벌을 삽입하였다. PN 심벌을 보호 구간에 이용할 경우 시간 영역에서 채널 임펄스 응답 (CIR: Channel Impulse Response)을 추정하여, 주파수 영역에서의 채널 보상을 가능케 하여 정확한 채널 추정 및 보상을 수행할 수 있다. 또한 수신기의 속도에 따른 다양한 최대 도플러 주파수가 존재하는 채널에 강인한 프레임 구조들을 제안하였다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 수정된 ATSC 전송 시스템에 제안된 프레임 구조를 적용하여 TU (Typical Urban)-6 채널에서의 SER (Symbol Error Rate) 성능을 측정하였다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.14-21
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• 2005

본 논문은 보행/이동수신 환경에서 기존의 ATSC(Advanced Television System Committee) 8-VSB DTV 전송규격의 수신성능을 개선한 Enhanced-xVSB를 제안한다. E-xVSB시스템은 normal(8-VSB) 스트림과 enhanced(robust) 스트림을 섞어 전송하며. robust 스트림은 기존의 8-VSB 스트림인 normal stream에 비해 모드에 따라 TOY(Threshold Of Visibility)를 만족하는 SNR을 획기적으로 개선시킬 수 있으며. 이와 같은 robust 스트림은 E-xVSB 전용수신기가 아닌 기존 수신기에서는 MPEG 스트림 역다중화 과정에서 누락되어지므로 기존의 8-VSB 수신기와 하위호환성을 유지한다. E-xVSB는 이동 및 보행수신 성능개선을 위해 reduced constellation 및 enhanced trellis coded modulation기법을 도입하였으며. 사용목적에 따라 Pseudo-2VSB. Enahnced-4VSB. Enhanced-xVSB 및 Hybrid 모드등 다양한 변조기법을 지원한다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.414-425
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• 2010

ATSC 방식의 지상파 디지털 TV 방송에서는 단일 주파수 망 구성 시 송신기들과 중계기들이 동일한 주파수를 사용함에 따라 수신기에서 간섭 문제가 발생한다. 이를 해결하기 위하여 ATSC 에서는 각 송신기 및 중계기에 송신기 식별 (TxID: Transmitter Identification) 신호를 할당하여 송신 및 중계 신호에 부가하여 전송하도록 권고하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 DTV 신호에 부가되어 전송되는 TxID 신호가 기존의 상용 수신기에 미치는 영향을 전산실험, 실험실 테스트, 그리고 필드 테스트를 통해 살펴본다. 이러한 테스트 결과에 의하면 TxID 신호가 기존 DTV 신호보다 30 dB 이하의 삽입레벨로 부가하여 전송될 때 상용 DTV 수신기의 TOV(Threshold of Visibility) 의 증가량은 0.17 dB 보다 작았다. 이것은 TxID 신호를 30 dB이하로 부가하여 전송하면 기존의 상용 수신기에 미치는 영향이 거의 없음을 의미한다.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.69-75
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• 2016

PURPOSES : In this study, we evaluated changes in the retroreflectivity and luminance of phosphorescent road line markings with changes in glass beads and line marking thickness. METHODS : The color of line markings affects their retroreflectivity. Using a chromaticity test, we conducted the analysis of whether phosphorescent road line markings adhered to the "KS M 6080" standard. Then, we measured the dry retroreflectivity and wet retroreflectivity for various glass bead refractive indices. We conducted wet retroreflectivity test using the EN 1436 standard as the basis. We also conducted luminance tests for different glass bead refractive indices and line marking thicknesses. RESULTS : 1. Phosphorescent road line markings specimens satisfied the "KS M 6080" standard. 2. In dry retroreflectivity test, phosphorescent road line markings sprayed with glass beads satisfied the national police agency standard ($240mcd/(m^2{\cdot}Lux)$). Wet retroreflectivity test results showed that except for one type of No.1 glass beads, phosphorescent road line markings specimens sprayed with glass beads of one type of No.3 and two types of No.1 satisfied the national police agency standard ($100mcd/(m^2{\cdot}Lux)$). 3. Phosphorescent road line markings had higher retroreflectivity than non-phosphorescent road line markings in the dry condition. 4. Phosphorescent road line markings sprayed with glass beads demonstrated improved luminance. Luminance increased with higher glass bead refractive index and with increased line marking thickness. However, when the thickness crossed a certain threshold, phosphorescence ceased to increase; this is a characteristic of the phosphorescence phenomenon. CONCLUSIONS : Visibility across short distances can be ensured when phosphorescent road line markings are sprayed with glass beads, because of the retroreflection phenomenon. It is also possible to ensure far visibility using phosphorescent road line markings.

• 대기
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2007

In order to investigate the impacts of heat wave on human health, cluster analysis of meteorological elements (e.g., temperature, dewpoint, sea level pressure, visibility, cloud amount, and wind components) for identifying offensive synoptic air masses is employed. Meteorological data at Seoul during the past 30 years are used. The daily death data at Seoul are also employed. Occurrence frequency of heat waves which is defined by daily maximum temperature greater than the threshold temperature (i.e., $31.2^{\circ}C$) was analyzed. The result shows that the frequency and duration of heat waves at Seoul are increasing during the past 30 years. In addition, the increasing trend of the frequency and duration clearly appears in late spring and early autumn as well as summer. Factor analysis shows that 65.1% of the total variance can be explained by 4 components which are linearly independent. Eight clusters (or synoptic air masses) were classified and found to be optimal for representing the summertime air masses at Seoul, Korea. The results exhibit that cluster-mean values of meteorological variables of an offensive air mass (or cluster) are closely correlated with the observed and standardized deaths.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.161-176
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• 2002

Collision avoidance is the most important part of a small vessel. Small and mediurn sized ships are surprisingly poor targets for radar reflection and are frequently in danger of being overrun by large vessels, even under good condition of visibility. One of the best way to prevent collisions at sea is to use as large and well designed a radar reflector. Thus, RCS(Radar Cross Section) increase is key element in the design of radar reflector. Radar Reflectors are normally classified into active-type and passive-type. In this paper, the RCS increase methods for passive-type reflector through shaping are explained, and analyzed with RCS performance test by computer simulation. As results from analysis, It is shown that the effective diameter of radar reflector is over 10 λ to provide a return above the threshold RCS of 25m$^2$, lower limit of detectability using X-band radar in a moderate sea.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.142-149
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• 2012

The camera has limitations of poor visibility in underwater environment due to the limited light source and medium noise of the environment. However, its usefulness in close range has been proved in many studies, especially for navigation. Thus, in this paper, vision-based object detection and tracking techniques using artificial objects for underwater robots have been studied. We employed template matching and mean shift algorithms for the object detection and tracking methods. Also, we propose the weighted correlation coefficient of adaptive threshold -based and color-region-aided approaches to enhance the object detection performance in various illumination conditions. The color information is incorporated into the template matched area and the features of the template are used to robustly calculate correlation coefficients. And the objects are recognized using multi-template matching approach. Finally, the water basin experiments have been conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed techniques using an underwater robot platform yShark made by KORDI.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.92-100
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose an efficient method to broadcast digital television signals using single frequency networks (SFNs) within the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) transmission systems. In implementing the SFNs of an 8-vestigial side band (8-VSB) Digital Television (DTV) system, the ambiguity problem of the trellis coder is unavoidable in a conventional ATSC transmission system. We propose a memory initialization of the trellis coder to resolve this ambiguity problem. Since the proposed scheme to synchronize multiple transmitters minimizes the changes from the conventional ATSC system, the hardware complexity for these changes is very low. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme makes a less than 0.1 dB degradation at the threshold of visibility with a bit error rate of $3{\times}10^{-6}$ in the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. It is possible to reduce the performance degradation by increasing the initialization period of the proposed scheme.