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Histogram-Based Singular Value Decomposition for Object Identification and Tracking (객체 식별 및 추적을 위한 히스토그램 기반 특이값 분해)

  • Ye-yeon Kang;Jeong-Min Park;HoonJoon Kouh;Kyungyong Chung
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2023
  • CCTV is used for various purposes such as crime prevention, public safety reinforcement, and traffic management. However, as the range and resolution of the camera improve, there is a risk of exposing personal information in the video. Therefore, there is a need for new technologies that can identify individuals while protecting personal information in images. In this paper, we propose histogram-based singular value decomposition for object identification and tracking. The proposed method distinguishes different objects present in the image using color information of the object. For object recognition, YOLO and DeepSORT are used to detect and extract people present in the image. Color values are extracted with a black-and-white histogram using location information of the detected person. Singular value decomposition is used to extract and use only meaningful information among the extracted color values. When using singular value decomposition, the accuracy of object color extraction is increased by using the average of the upper singular value in the result. Color information extracted using singular value decomposition is compared with colors present in other images, and the same person present in different images is detected. Euclidean distance is used for color information comparison, and Top-N is used for accuracy evaluation. As a result of the evaluation, when detecting the same person using a black-and-white histogram and singular value decomposition, it recorded a maximum of 100% to a minimum of 74%.

A Study on the Policy Implications for Using Aging Workforces of Research and Development Field in the Era of Working Age Population Decline (생산가능인구 감소시대에 대비한 장년 연구개발 인력 활용 모델 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Min
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.3-10
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of the study was to investigate the policy implication and a usage model for aging workforces of research and development field in the era of working age population decline and the introduction of the retirement age legislation. In spite the importance of the use for aging workforces of R&D, previous studies have not been taken in terms of R&D workforces. In addition, the activated policies and services was implemented for the aged and retired people. Therefore, we suggested the usage model in four folds: 1) internal employment model, which is to hire and employ pre-retired active workforces by their retirement age, 2) internal and external linkage model, which is to make them to depart from their previous workplaces and move them to new workplaces where they can apply their knowledge and skills, 3) extending retirement age model, which is to expand their age limit and provide their job opportunities after they left their work, and 4) ouplacement model, which is to provide them with employment information and service as well as operate the educational programs before they leave the workpalce. Finally, we suggested the update of legislation and law for old workers, government supports for retiring workforces, and the conversation and compromise between R&D workforces and managers of workplaces.

Collaboration between Artists and Engineers: 'Experiments in Art and Technology' Group (예술가와 공학자의 협업 모델: '예술과 기술의 실험' 그룹)

  • Lim, Shan
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.79-85
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    • 2019
  • 'Experiments in Art and Technology' Group was established in the mid-20th century, and then developed the larger interdisciplinary experiments into the range of art world and its outside field. The motive power of group's activities was the collaboration between artists and engineers traversing the boundary between old different disciplinary conventions. E.A.T was officially launched in 1967 by the engineers Billy $Kl{\ddot{u}}ver$ and Fred Waldhauer and the artists Robert Raushenberg and Robert Whitman. They performed various possibility of material, technology, and engineering available to contemporary art. By reflecting the function of art and technology in society, eventually they developed the methodology of new aesthetics which had organic relationship with contemporary world. In this sense, this research have its academic significance. This paper firstly examined the socio-cultural context of emerging the E.A.T. group as a representative model for convergent practice, and verified the fact that the collaboration between artists and engineers had produced the expansion of artistic expression as well as new relationship among art, engineering, and society by considering E.A.T's various projects. Therefore, I will refer the E.A.T. group as an exemplary model for concrete method of collaboration that contemporary discourses about convergence need.

A Study on Development of Wrinkle Evaluation Software and Verification of Skin Wrinkle Improvement of Cog Suture (주름 평가 소프트웨어 개발과 Cog형 봉합사의 피부 주름 개선 검증에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Jin-Hyoung;Lee, Sang-Sik
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.336-342
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    • 2019
  • With the entry of an aging society, the average life span of accreditation has been extended. Therefore, interest in the appearance of men and women in modern society has increased. It is the wrinkles of the face that can judge the most outwardly. People tend to have various kinds of treatments to have a clean, wrinkle-free and resilient healthy skin regardless of sex. There is a lot of practice of lifting procedures in one of the procedures. A suture using a melting thread is a method of lifting by squeezing it into the skin as a non-incision type centering on a region where the thread can be fixed in the skin by injecting it into the subcutaneous fat layer. To evaluate the lifting efficacy of Cog - type suture for the improvement of skin wrinkles, preclinical experiments were conducted. We developed a wrinkle evaluation program using Labview. Data from preclinical experiments were used at 8 weeks after suturing. The average wrinkle depth was 415.6 mm in the control group. At 8 weeks, the depth of wrinkles was deepened to 888.3mm due to the aging process of the control group. On the other hand, the depth of the wrinkles before surgery was 640.3 mm in the suture group. It was confirmed that the depth of wrinkles decreased to 566.5mm at 8th week after the suture operation.

Verification of Estrogen Like Activities of Herbal Medicines Using an In Vitro Detection System (In vitro 검출 시스템을 이용한 한약재 추출물들의 에스트로겐 유사활성 검증)

  • Park, Seong Hwan;Jeon, Myong Je;Jang, Min Kyung;Lee, Sol Jee;Kim, Bo Kyung;Jeon, Myeong Jeong;Kim, Seo Yeon;Kim, Mihyang;Lee, Dong Geun;Lee, Tae Ho;Nam, Jae Sub;Hur, Ji Won;Lee, Sang Hyeon
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.752-758
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    • 2013
  • Estrogen like activities were evaluated using ethanol and hot water extracts of herbal medicines by using an in vitro detection system. Bokryung (Poria cocos), Sanyak (root of Dioscorea batatas) and Mokdanpi (root skin of Paeonia suffruticosa) represented statistically significant estrogen-like activities (p<0.001), while Omija (fruit of Schizandra chinensis), Taeksa (root of Alisma canaliculatum A. BR.), Jihwang (root of Rhemannia glutinosa), and Sansuyu (fruit of Cornus officinalis) did not. Estrogen-like activities of Bokryung hot water extract (500 ${\mu}g/ml$) and ethanol extract (50 ${\mu}g/ml$) were almost same as that of a C M $17{\beta}$-estradiol. Furthermore, estrogen-like activities of ethanol extracts (500 ${\mu}g/ml$) of Bokryung and Mokdanpi were stronger than that of $10^{-7}$ M $17{\beta}$-estradiol. These results suggest that Bokryung, Sanyak and Mokdanpi show estrogen-like activities. Especially, Sanyak and Mokdanpi represented promotive effect on the proliferation of MC3T3-E1 osteoblastic cells. Bokryung, Sanyak and Mokdanpi also exhibited superior inhibitory effect on the viability of RAW 264.7 cells. In conclusion, these three herbal medicines might be interpreted as candidates for the further study or development of functional foods or medicine to prevent or avoid postmenopausal symptoms of women.

An Analysis of First Flush Phenomenon of Non-point Source Pollution during Rainfall-Runoff Events from Impervious Area (불투수성 지역의 강우유출수에 대한 비점오염물질의 초기유출현상 분석)

  • Ahn, Tae-Ung;Bum, Bong-Su;Kim, Tae-Hoon;Choi, I-Song;Oh, Jong-Min
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.35 no.9
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    • pp.643-653
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    • 2013
  • In this study, trend analysis was performed by various runoff analysis method of Non-point Pollution Source(NPS) at the impervious area. The characteristics of rainfall at impervious area appeared to be influenced by rainfall strength and it appeared that first flush phenomenon occurs often if rainfall strength acts largely. It is judged that the measure is required to be prepared against that now that concentration difference of non-point pollution source appeared to be big by precedent number of days of no rainfall. As the result of calculating Decrease Rate (DR) by first flush of non-point pollution source, it is judged that it is important to prepare the measure against the pollutants about initial rain and it is necessary to calculate the capacity of non-point pollution source processing facilities regarding that now that the non-point pollution source integrated at impervious area showed the characteristics that are flowed out in high concentration by initial rain in case of non-rainfall considering the characteristics of non-point pollution source at impervious area. When taking 50% of non-point pollution source as the standard for decrease rate that was evaluated previously, it appeared as 15~60 min in case of TSS and it appeared as 30~90 min in case of organic compound, but the characteristic whose decrease rate is below 50% also appeared even till rainfall-runoff ends. Based on that, it is judged that it could be used as the reference when designing the structural BMPs facilities later.

Analysis of Shelter Service Areas According to Walking Speed Using Network Analysis (네트워크 분석을 이용한 보행속도에 따른 대피소 서비스 영역 분석)

  • Park, Jae Kook;Kim, Dong Moon
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2012
  • There are approximately 25,724 shelters to which people can be quickly evacuated for safety in case of emergency across the nation, and Seoul has about 3,870 shelters. Those nationwide shelters are located at a point within a five-minute radius for quick evacuation. Seoul's shelter capacity can hold 285% of its population. The problem is, however, that there is no knowing how many shelters are reachable within five minutes when considering walking speed according to individual differences in age, height, health state, and physical condition. In addition, available service areas become different according to the spatial allocation and distribution of shelters with possible vulnerable points. This study thus defined the pedestrian walking speed at 1m/s, 1.3m/s, and 2m/s by reviewing previous studies and conducted network analysis of the Location Allocation Model with the designated shelters and road networks in Seoul. The results identified the shelter service and vulnerable areas in each administrative district of Seoul according to walking speeds. It was analyzed that the vulnerable areas in which the elderly could not reach a shelter were more than twice as big as those of adult men and women with a fast walking speed.

A Study on the Evacuation Behavior of Students Due to Tsunami Occurrence in Coastal Areas: Focusing on the Great East Japan Earthquake (연안지역 지진해일 발생에 따른 학생들의 피난행동에 관한 연구 -동일본 대지진을 중심으로-)

  • Won-Jo Jung;Akihito Souda;Takashi Yokota;Tadasu Iida;Koji Itami;Myung-Kwon Lee
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.18-24
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    • 2023
  • After the Great East Japan Earthquake, many reports and books that compiled testimonies of adult victims were published. Thus, refugee situations are well known, but information on the refugee situations of Japanese students is not. This is because what actions the students took and how they sought refuge from an earthquake or tsunami have not been fully recognized. The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze students' refuge behavior in the Great East Japan Earthquake and to predict the refuge behavior of students affected by future disasters. The results of the study showed that students passively acquired information about earthquakes and tsunamis and that their refuge behavior was highly dependent on adults. Immediately after an earthquake, people tended to protect themselves and stay in place until the shaking stopped. However, they tended to move to another place after the shaking occurred frequently. Students living on ria coastlines were likely to move to high places to escape the threat of earthquakes and tsunamis, whereas students living in plain regions were likely to move vertically to tall buildings, such as schools. As for the mode of movement to refugee shelters, the students arrived at the final refugee shelters in one move, and it is assumed that the refugee shelters should be decided in advance and the students should move there.

The mediating effect of customer trust in the relationship between non-face-to-face counseling service quality and purchasing behavior in the beauty influencer (뷰티 인플루언서의 비대면 상담 서비스 품질과 구매행동의 관계에서 고객신뢰도의 매개효과)

  • Hyun-Jung Jo;Jae-Nam Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.634-647
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    • 2024
  • This study collected 411 copies of data from women in their 20s and 30s in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province who had received non-face-to-face counseling services from beauty influencer and analyzed them with the SPSS WIN 20.0 statistical program. The purpose of the study was to identify the effect of non-face-to-face consultation service quality on customer reliability and purchasing behavior, analyze the mediating effect of customer reliability, and provide basic data necessary for establishing beauty and cosmetics marketing strategies. As a result of the study, first, it can be seen that the main purpose of use of the beauty influencer non-face-to-face counseling service differs according to age, occupation, and average monthly income. Second, correlations between each variable appeared. Third, it was found that the higher the quality of non-face-to-face counseling services of beauty influencer, the higher the purchasing behavior. Fourth, the higher the customer reliability, the higher the purchasing behavior. Fifth, in the relationship between non-face-to-face counseling service quality and purchasing behavior of beauty influencer, customer trust was confirmed to have a partial mediating effect. In the future, it is hoped that the results of this study will be useful as basic data for establishing beauty and cosmetics marketing strategies.

A study on the synthesis of lanthanum oxide (La2O3) from NaLa(SO4)2·H2O by metathesis reaction (NaLa(SO4)2·H2O 결정상으로부터 이온치환반응에 의한 산화란탄 (La2O3) 분말 합성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dae-Weon;Ahn, Nak-Kyoon;Shim, Hyun-Woo;Lee, Chan-Gi;Choi, Hee-Lack;Hong, Hyun Seon
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.211-216
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    • 2018
  • The recovery of rare earth elements (REE) including La, Nd and Ce from spent batteries is important issues to reuse scarce resources. Herein, we present a simple recovery process to obtain lanthanum oxide ($La_2O_3$) from spent Ni-MH batteries, and demonstrate the conversion mechanism from $NaLa(SO_4)_2{\cdot}H_2O$ to $La_2O_3$. This strategy requires the initial preparation of $NaLa(SO_4)_2{\cdot}H_2O$ and subsequent metathesis reaction with $Na_2CO_3$ at $70^{\circ}C$. This metathesis reaction resulted in the crystalline lanthanum carbonate hydrate ($La_2(CO_3)_3{\cdot}xH_2O$) powder with plate-like morphology. On the basis of TGA result, the $La_2(CO_3)_3{\cdot}xH_2O$ powder was calcined in air at three different temperatures, that is, $300^{\circ}C$, $500^{\circ}C$, and $1000^{\circ}C$. As the calcination temperature increased, the morphology of powder was changed; prism-like ($NaLa(SO_4)_2{\cdot}H_2O$) ${\rightarrow}$ platelike ($La_2(CO_3)_3{\cdot}xH_2O$) ${\rightarrow}$ aggregated irregular shape ($La_2O_3$). Futhermore, XRD results indicated that the crystalline $La_2O_3$ could be synthesized after the metathesis reaction with $Na_2CO_3$, followed by heat-treatment at $1000^{\circ}C$, along with a change of crystallographic structures; $NaLa(SO_4)_2{\cdot}H_2O$ ${\rightarrow}$ $La_2(CO_3)_3{\cdot}xH_2O$ ${\rightarrow}$ $La_2O_3$.