• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.45-52
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• 2021

In this paper, we proposed an Atrous Residual U-Net (AR-UNet) to improve the segmentation accuracy of semantic segmentation method based on U-Net. The U-Net is mainly used in fields such as medical image analysis, autonomous vehicles, and remote sensing images. The conventional U-Net lacks extracted features due to the small number of convolution layers in the encoder part. The extracted features are essential for classifying object categories, and if they are insufficient, it causes a problem of lowering the segmentation accuracy. Therefore, to improve this problem, we proposed the AR-UNet using residual learning and ASPP in the encoder. Residual learning improves feature extraction ability and is effective in preventing feature loss and vanishing gradient problems caused by continuous convolutions. In addition, ASPP enables additional feature extraction without reducing the resolution of the feature map. Experiments verified the effectiveness of the AR-UNet with Cityscapes dataset. The experimental results showed that the AR-UNet showed improved segmentation results compared to the conventional U-Net. In this way, AR-UNet can contribute to the advancement of many applications where accuracy is important.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.36 no.5_3
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• pp.1095-1107
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• 2020

Flood monitoring using satellite data has been constrained by obtaining satellite images for flood peak and accurately extracting flooded areas from satellite data. Deep learning is a promising method for satellite image classification, yet the potential of deep learning-based flooded area extraction using SAR data remained uncertain, which has advantages in obtaining data, comparing to optical satellite data. This research explores the performance of SegNet and U-Net on image segmentation by extracting flooded areas in the Khorat basin, Mekong river basin, and Cagayan river basin in Thailand, Laos, and the Philippines from Sentinel-1 A/B satellite data. Results show that Global Accuracy, Mean IoU, and Mean BF Score of SegNet are 0.9847, 0.6016, and 0.6467 respectively, whereas those of U-Net are 0.9937, 0.7022, 0.7125. Visual interpretation shows that the classification accuracy of U-Net is higher than SegNet, but overall processing time of SegNet is around three times faster than that of U-Net. It is anticipated that the results of this research could be used when developing deep learning-based flood monitoring models and presenting fully automated flooded area extraction models.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.840-847
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• 2022

In a deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement, using global and local input speech information is closely related to model performance. Recently, a nested U-Net structure that utilizes global and local input data information using multi-scale has bee n proposed. This nested U-Net was also applied to speech enhancement and showed outstanding performance. However, a single skip connection used in nested U-Nets must be modified for the nested structure. In this paper, we propose a multi-level skip connection (MLS) to optimize the performance of the nested U-Net-based speech enhancement algorithm. As a result, the proposed MLS showed excellent performance improvement in various objective evaluation metrics compared to the standard skip connection, which means th at the MLS can optimize the performance of the nested U-Net-based speech enhancement algorithm. In addition, the final proposed m odel showed superior performance compared to other DNN-based speech enhancement models.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.29-37
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• 2024

This study aims to evaluate the performance of the U-Net based learning model that may vary depending on the histogram equalization algorithm. The subject of the experiment were 17 radiology students of this college, and 1,727 data sets in which the region of interest was set in the thyroid after acquiring ultrasound image data were used. The training set consisted of 1,383 images, the validation set consisted of 172 and the test data set consisted of 172. The equalization algorithm was divided into Histogram Equalization(HE) and Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization(CLAHE), and according to the clip limit, it was divided into CLAHE8-1, CLAHE8-2. CLAHE8-3. Deep Learning was learned through size control, histogram equalization, Z-score normalization, and data augmentation. As a result of the experiment, the Attention U-Net showed the highest performance from CLAHE8-2 to 0.8355, and the U-Net and BSU-Net showed the highest performance from CLAHE8-3 to 0.8303 and 0.8277. In the case of mIoU, the Attention U-Net was 0.7175 in CLAHE8-2, the U-Net was 0.7098 and the BSU-Net was 0.7060 in CLAHE8-3. This study attempted to confirm the effects of U-Net, Attention U-Net, and BSU-Net models when histogram equalization is performed on ultrasound images. The increase in Clip Limit can be expected to increase the ROI match with the prediction mask by clarifying the boundaries, which affects the improvement of the contrast of the thyroid area in deep learning model learning, and consequently affects the performance improvement.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.251-258
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• 2021

In this paper, we proposed an encoder-decoder model utilizing residual learning to improve the accuracy of the U-Net-based semantic segmentation method. U-Net is a deep learning-based semantic segmentation method and is mainly used in applications such as autonomous vehicles and medical image analysis. The conventional U-Net occurs loss in feature compression process due to the shallow structure of the encoder. The loss of features causes a lack of context information necessary for classifying objects and has a problem of reducing segmentation accuracy. To improve this, The proposed method efficiently extracted context information through an encoder using residual learning, which is effective in preventing feature loss and gradient vanishing problems in the conventional U-Net. Furthermore, we reduced down-sampling operations in the encoder to reduce the loss of spatial information included in the feature maps. The proposed method showed an improved segmentation result of about 12% compared to the conventional U-Net in the Cityscapes dataset experiment.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.81-87
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• 2021

Artificial intelligence technology is developing as it enters the fourth industrial revolution. Active researches are going on; visual-based models using CNNs. U-net is one of the visual-based models. It has shown strong performance for semantic segmentation. Although various U-net studies have been conducted, studies on tracking objects with unclear outlines such as gases and smokes are still insufficient. We conducted a U-net study to tackle this limitation. In this paper, we describe how 3D cameras are used to collect data. The data are organized into learning and test sets. This paper also describes how U-net is applied and how the results is validated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.97-99
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• 2022

For the early identification and treatment of colorectal cancer, accurate polyp segmentation is crucial. However, polyp segmentation is a challenging task, and the majority of current approaches struggle with two issues. First, the position, size, and shape of each individual polyp varies greatly (intra-class inconsistency). Second, there is a significant degree of similarity between polyps and their surroundings under certain circumstances, such as motion blur and light reflection (inter-class indistinction). U-net, which is composed of convolutional neural networks as encoder and decoder, is considered as a standard for tackling this task. We propose an updated U-net architecture replacing the encoder part with vision transformer network for polyp segmentation. The proposed architecture performed better than the standard U-net architecture for the task of polyp segmentation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.81-83
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a method to segment a plant from a plant image using U-Net. The network is an end-to-end fully convolutional network that is mainly used for image segmentation. When training the network, we used a binary image that is acquired by the manual segmentation of a plant from the background. Experimental results show that the U-Net based segmentation network can extract a plant from a digital image accurately.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.65-66
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 Wave-U-Net 기반의 오디오 부호화 성능 향상 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 인공지능 기반 오디오 부호화 기술은 오디오의 주파수 정보를 복원하는 방식이기 때문에 완전한 복원을 위해서 주파수의 위상 정보를 별도로 부호화하여 전송해야 한다는 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 오디오 부호화의 성능 향상을 위해 음원의 주파수 분석을 필요로 하지 않은 end-to-end 모델인 Wave-U-Net을 사용할 것을 제안한다. Wave-U-Net을 사용한 음원이 사용 전의 음원보다 객관적, 주관적 평가 지표에서 우수한 성능을 보이는 것을 확인하였다.

• Koreanishche Zeitschrift fur Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft
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• v.9
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• pp.217-236
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• 2004

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, als eine methodische Grundlage zur Erstellung des koreanisch-deutschen WordNets das Grundwissen $\"{u}ber$ das WordNet und einige bisherige Untersuchungen des WordNets darzulegen. Ais erster Schritt wurde einige grundlegende Punkte $f\"{u}r$ das WordNet im Rahmen des WordNets fur Englisch in Betracht gebracht. Dabei ging es um lexikalische Hierarchie, und um semantische Relationen zwischen den Synsets(Zusammensetzen der synonymen $W\"{o}rter$) wie Synonymy, Antonymy, Hyponymy, Mronymy, Troponomy und Entailment. $Anschlie{\ss}end$ wurden EuroNet und GermaNet in kurzer Form vorgestellt, die auf dem Princeton WordNet basierten. EuroNet ist eine multilinguale Datenbasis mit WordNets $f\"{u}r$ einige europaische Sprachen (hollandisch, italienisch, spanisch, deutsch, franzasisch, tschechisch und estnisch). Dieses auf das Deutsch bezogenen WordNet kann wichtige Hinweise $f\"{u}r$ die Erstellung des koreanisch-deutschen WordNets geben. In Korea wurden auch verschiedene Untersuchungen uber das WordNet $f\"{u}r$ Koreanisch unternommen. Darunter kann insbesondere KORTERM WordNet $f\"f{u}r$ Koreanisch als ein umfassendes System $erw\"{a}hnt$ werden, in dem Nomen, Verben, Adjektive und Adverbien miteinander interagieren. KORTERM WordNet fur Koreanisch ist eine multilinguale Datenbasis mit WordNets $f\"{u}r$ einige asiatische Sprachen (koreanisch, japanisch und chinesisch) und versucht noch die weiteren Sprachen in diese multilinguale Datenbasis hineinzubringen. Nach diesem WordNet wird das koreanisch-deutsche WordNet erstellt.