• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.19-40
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• 2017

A scientific and objective sound exposure criterion for underwater sound damage on fish has been required since there has been many disputes between an underwater sound maker and a fish damage receiver. The existing criteria are still incomplete scientifically owing to a degree of variability of underwater sounds, diversity of fish hearing sensitivity and damage types, etc. This study reviews existing studies on a hearing mechanism of fish species, manmade underwater sound characteristics and sound exposure assessment parameters, and recent sound exposure criteria. A governing equation for damage coverage estimation and damage coverage dependency on sound source level, ambient noise and transmission loss are also reviewed and interpreted based on sound exposure environments. The foreign and Korean (National Environmental Dispute Medication Commission) criteria are reviewed and compared based on scientific aspects. In addition, the deficit and limit of Korean criteria are presented. The objective of this study is to give a direction for related researches and legislation of sound exposure criteria on fish.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.2259-2262
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• 2003

This paper describes visual tracking procedure of the underwater mobile robot for nuclear reactor vessel inspection, which is required to find the foreign objects such as loose parts. The yellowish underwater robot body tend to present a big contrast to boron solute cold water of nuclear reactor vessel, tinged with indigo by Cerenkov effect. In this paper, we have found and tracked the positions of underwater mobile robot using the two color informations, yellow and indigo. The center coordinates extraction procedures is as follows. The first step is to segment the underwater robot body to cold water with indigo background. From the RGB color components of the entire monitoring image taken with the color CCD camera, we have selected the red color component. In the selected red image, we extracted the positions of the underwater mobile robot using the following process sequences: binarization labelling, and centroid extraction techniques. In the experiment carried out at the Youngkwang unit 5 nuclear reactor vessel, we have tracked the center positions of the underwater robot submerged near the cold leg and the hot leg way, which is fathomed to 10m deep in depth.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.837-856
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• 2016

Underwater image enhancement has received considerable attention in last decades, due to the nature of poor visibility and low contrast of underwater images. In this paper, we propose a new automatic underwater image enhancement algorithm, which combines nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain enhancement techniques with the mechanism of the human visual system (HVS). We apply the multiscale retinex algorithm based on the HVS into NSCT domain in order to eliminate the non-uniform illumination, and adopt the threshold denoising technique to suppress underwater noise. Our proposed algorithm incorporates the luminance masking and contrast masking characteristics of the HVS into NSCT domain to yield the new HVS-based NSCT. Moreover, we define two nonlinear mapping functions. The first one is used to manipulate the HVS-based NSCT contrast coefficients to enhance the edges. The second one is a gain function which modifies the lowpass subband coefficients to adjust the global dynamic range. As a result, our algorithm can achieve contrast enhancement, image denoising and edge sharpening automatically and simultaneously. Experimental results illustrate that our proposed algorithm has better enhancement performance than state-of-the-art algorithms both in subjective evaluation and quantitative assessment. In addition, our algorithm can automatically achieve underwater image enhancement without any parameter tuning.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.331-351
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• 2021

Underwater images are very much different from images taken on land, due to the presence of a higher disturbance ratio caused by the presence of water medium between the camera and the target object. These distortions and noises result in unclear details and reduced quality of the output image. An underwater image restoration method is proposed in this paper, which uses blurriness information, background light neutralization information, and red-light intensity to estimate depth. The transmission map is then estimated using the derived depth map, by considering separate attenuation coefficients for direct and backscattered signals. The estimated transmission map and estimated background light are then used to recover the scene radiance. Qualitative and quantitative analysis have been used to compare the performance of the proposed method against other state-of-the-art restoration methods. It has been shown that the proposed method can yield good quality restored underwater images. The proposed method has also been evaluated using different qualitative metrics, and results have shown that method is highly capable of restoring underwater images with different conditions. The results are significant and show the applicability of the proposed method for underwater image restoration work.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.3-9
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• 2017

수중환경에서는 전력 공급이 어렵기 때문에 통신 프로토콜 설계에 있어서 전력 효율은 중요한 고려사항들 중 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 UUV(Unmanned Underwater Vehicle)와 AUV(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) 같은 이동 노드를 갖는 수중통신망에 대해 에너지 효율적인 매체접속제어(MAC : Medium Access Control) 프로토콜을 연구하였다. 이동 노드간의 통신에서는 데이터 교환 중에 노드 이동으로 인해 서로의 전파 반경을 벗어나 전송 중인 데이터를 완료하지 못하고 에너지만 낭비하는 경우가 발생할 수 있다. 특히, 수중 통신 채널 환경에서는 지상보다 약 $10^5$ 배의 느린 전파 지연을 가지므로 데이터의 전송 완료 전에 서로의 전파 반경을 벗어날 확률이 지상보다 커서 이로 인한 에너지 낭비가 더 많게 된다. 제안한 mobility-MAC 프로토콜은 수신노드의 위치와 노드의 이동 속도를 고려하여 Dropping Zone을 정의하고 데이터 전송 시도를 제어한다. 데이터 전송시도는 Dropping Zone에서 무조건 데이터 전송을 드롭(drop)을 하는 것이 아니라, 데이터 전송 중 노드가 전파 반경을 이탈할 확률을 예측하여 드롭하는 방법이다. 결과적으로, 조건적 드롭을 통해 잘못된 드롭을 감소시켜 전송지연과 통신수율의 향상을 가져왔고 유효한 데이터 드롭으로 에너지 낭비를 방지하여 에너지 효율도 증가되었다.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.150-160
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• 2008

현재 국내의 수중 및 해양 시설물 관리는 아날로그 필름에 의한 육안분석에 의존하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 방법을 개선하기 위하여 보다 정량적인 수중시설물의 공간적인 상태를 분석하고자 하였다. 본 연구는 수중영상 왜곡보정과 모자익 제작의 두 단계로 나누어 진행하였다. 수중영상 왜곡보정 단계에서는 수중 타겟을 제작하고 타겟 격자점으로부터 왜곡계수를 산출한 후, 수중영상으로 포착한 영상점을 왜곡이 보정된 영상점으로 위치 보정하는 기술을 개발하였다. 그리고 모자익 제작 단계에서는 먼저, 수중에 송유관 형태의 파이프를 설치한 후 영상을 획득하였으며, 왜곡보정을 실시한 후 보정된 파이프 영상을 좌표 변환 후, 산출된 특이점을 바탕으로 모자익 영상을 제작하고 필터링을 통해 외곽선 추출하고 파이프와 수중바닥과의 거리를 계산하였다. 그 결과, 실제 파이프와 수중지반과의 거리가 6cm일 때 평균 RMSE 0.3cm로 나타났다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권7호
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• pp.144-149
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 수중 음향 채널 모델에서 QPSK(Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) 모뎀의 성능을 분석한다. 수중음향채널의 배경잡음과 다양한 환경 파라메터는 수중모뎀의 비트오류율(BER:Bit Error Rate) 성능을 저하시키는 원인이다. 본 논문에서는 이론적인 수중채널모델에서 비부호화된 QPSK와 부호율 2/3의 길쌈부호기를 사용한 부호화된 QPSK의 BER 성능을 분석한다. 수중 음향 통신 시스템의 성능을 개선하기 위해서 파일럿 심볼 기반의 채널 등화 방식을 적용하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.810-816
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• 2011

기존의 수중음향통신모뎀은 상용 제품들을 기반으로 개발되어 수중음향통신모뎀의 기능 및 성능 구현은 가능하지만 개발 시스템을 제품화하기에는 시스템의 크기나 개발 비용 등에서 단일 플랫폼으로의 시스템 구현이 필수적으로 요구되었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 수중음향통신모뎀의 단일 하드웨어 플랫폼을 구현함에 있어 중요한 역할을 하는 신호처리 모듈을 TigerSHARC DSP 프로세서를 이용하여 설계 및 구현하고자 한다.

• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2011

This paper addresses an underwater landmark for updating UUV positioning information. A method is proposed in which the landmark's cubic shape and edge are recognized. The reliability, installation load, and management of landmark design were taken into consideration in order to assess practical applications of the landmark. Landmark recognition was based on topological features. The straight line recognition confirmed the landmark's location and enabled an UUV to accurately estimated its underwater position with respect to the landmark. An efficient recognition method is proposed, which provides real-time processing with limited UUV computing power. An underwater experiment was conducted in order to evaluate the proposed method's reliability and accuracy.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 1998년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.351-358
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• 1998

This paper deals with the underwater image transmission system which includes in AUV(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) Project(that is VORAM(Vehicle for Ocean Research And Monitoring)), developed by KIMM for survey and investigation of a sea-bed through transmitting the underwater image to the mother ship. The system presented in this paper consists of a transducer which has a 136KHz center frequency and it's 10KHz bandwidth, pre-amplifier, $\pi$/4 QPSK(Quadreature Phase Shift Keying) modulation/demodulation method, image compressing method using JPEG technique and modified Stop & protocol. The experimental results of the system is verified to a high performance with 9600 bps for transmitting the underwater image through the basin test. The results of test are also verified which allows to desirable transmission performance compared with the existing developed system and the possibility to put the practical use of survey and investigation. And, the viterbi coding and adaptive equalizer for cancelling the multipath effect are developing for more effective image transmission system. Also, these technique will very effectively adapt to realtime image transmission system.