• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제11A권4호
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• pp.277-284
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• 2004

본 논문은 사용자로 하여금 계층적 가시화 기법에 의한 표정들의 공간으로부터 일련의 표정을 선택하게 함으로써 3차원 아바타의 표정 제어기법을 기술한다. 본 시스템에서는 2,40P0여개의 표정 프레임을 이용하여 2차원 표정공간을 구성하였으며, 3차원 아바타의 표정 제어는 사용자가 표정공간을 항해하면서 수행한다. 그러나 표정의 수가 너무 많아 사용자가 항해를 하는데 어려움이 많기 때문에 계층적 가시화 기법이 필요하다. 표정공간을 계층적으로 분할하기 위해, 퍼지 클러스터링을 이용한다. 초기 단계에서는 2,400여개의 표정들을 이용하여 약 11개의 클러스터센터를 가지도록 클러스터링한다. 클러스터 센터들은 2차원 평면에 표시되며 후보 키 프레임으로 사용된다 사용자는 후보 키 프레임들 중에서 특정 키 프레임들을 선택하여 초기 항해경로를 생성한다. 사용자가 줌 인(이산적인 단계를 가지고 있음)을 하면 상세한 단계를 보기를 원한다는 의미이므로 줌 인된 단계에 적합한 표정 클러스터들을 생성한다. 단계가 증가될 때 마다 클러스터의 수를 두 배로 하고, 클러스터의 수만큼 표정들을 클러스터링한다. 사용자는 현재 단계에서 그전 단계의 항해경로를 따라 새로운 키 프레임(클러스터 센터)들을 선택하여 항해경로를 갱신한다. 줌 인을 최대로 한 마지막 단계에서 항해경로를 갱신하면 표정 제어 설정이 끝난다. 사용자는 언제든지 줌 아웃을 통해 그 전단계로 돌아가서 항해경로를 수정할 수 있다. 본 논문은 본 시스템이 어떤 효과가 있는지를 알기 위해 사용자들로 하여금 본 시스템을 사용하여 3차원 아바타의 표정 제어를 수행하게 하였으며, 그 결과를 평가한다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.487-498
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• 2018

Buckling-restrained braces are passive control devices with high level of energy dissipation ability. However, they suffer from low post-yield stiffness which makes them vulnerable to severe ground motions, especially near-field earthquakes. Among the several methods proposed to improve resistance of BRB frames, mega-brace configuration can be a solution to increase frame lateral strength and stiffness and improve distribution of forces to prevent large displacement in braces. Due to the limited number of research regarding the performance of such systems, the current paper aims to assess seismic performance of BRB frames with mega-bracing arrangement under near-field earthquakes via a detailed probabilistic framework. For this purpose, a group of multi-story mega-BRB frames were modelled by OpenSEES software platform. In the first part of the paper, simplified procedures including nonlinear pushover and Incremental Dynamic Analysis were conducted for performance evaluation. Two groups of near-fault seismic ground motions (Non-pulse and Pulse-like records) were considered for analyses to take into account the effects of record-to-record uncertainties, as well as forward directivity on the results. In the second part, seismic reliability analyses are conducted in the context of performance based earthquake engineering. Two widely-known EDP-based and IM-based probabilistic frameworks are employed to estimate collapse potential of the structures. Results show that all the structures can successfully tolerate near-field earthquakes with a high level of confidence level. Therefore, mega-bracing configuration can be an effective alternative to conventional BRB bracing to withstand near-field earthquakes.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.60-66
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 지상파 DMB 기반의 멀티미디어 서비스를 위한 ETI 어댑터 구현 방법을 제안한다. ETI 어댑터는 멀티미디어 서비스 제공자로부터 전송받은 데이터를 ETI 프레임으로 구성한 후 G.703 형태로 지상파 DMB 다중화기에 전송한다. 이를 위해서 제안된 ETI 어댑터는 서비스 제공자와의 데이터 전송을 제어하는 모듈, 전송된 데이터를 ETI 프레임으로 구성하는 모듈, 그리고 ETI 프레임을 실시간 전송하기 위한 ETI 출력보드로 구성된다. 제안된 어댑터는 인터넷을 통해 멀티미디어 데이터를 수신하여 ETI 프레임으로 구성한 후 ETSI EN 300 401 규격에서 요구되는 $64{\sim}1,153$ kbps 범위 내의 가변 전송률에 따라 데이터 손실없이 지상파 DMB 다중화기에 전송하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.315-322
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• 2018

Due to the increasing demand for more rapid, precise and accurate geolocation of the targets on video frames from UAVs, an efficient and timely method for correcting sensor models of motion imagery is required. In this paper, we propose a method to adjust or correct sensor models of motion imagery frames using space resection via image matching with reference data. The proposed method adopts image matching between the motion imagery frames and the reference frames which are synthesized from reference data. Ground or reference control points are generated or selected through the matching process in near real time, and are used for space resection to get adjusted sensor models. Finally, more precise and accurate geolocation of the targets can possibly be done on the fly, and we have got the promising result on performance analysis in terms of the geolocation quality.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.139-147
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• 2018

Moment frames have considerable ductility against cyclic lateral loads and displacements; however, sometimes this feature causes the relative displacement to exceed the permissible limits. This issue can bring unfavorable hysteretic behavior on the frame due to the reduction in the stiffness and resistance against lateral loads. Most of common bracing systems usually control lateral displacements through increasing stiffness while result in decreasing the capacity for energy absorption. This has direct effect on hysteresis curves of moment frames. Therefore, a system that is capable of both having the capacity of energy absorption as well as controlling the displacements without a considerable increase in the stiffness is quite important. This paper investigates retrofitting of a single-storey steel moment frame using a delayed wire-rope bracing system equipped with the ductile middle steel plate. The steel plate is considered at the middle intersection of wire ropes, where it causes cables to be continuously in tension. This integrated system has the advantage of reducing considerable stiffness of the frame compared to cross bracing systems as a result of which it could also preserve the frame's energy absorption capacity. In this paper, FEM models of a delayed wire-rope bracing system equipped by steel plates with different geometries have been studied, validated, and compared with other researchers' laboratory test results.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.65-88
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• 2011

A new method for the seismic design of plane steel moment resisting frames is developed. This method determines the design base shear of a plane steel frame through modal synthesis and spectrum analysis utilizing different values of the strength reduction (behavior) factor for the modes considered instead of a single common value of that factor for all these modes as it is the case with current seismic codes. The values of these modal strength reduction factors are derived with the aid of a) design equations that provide equivalent linear modal damping ratios for steel moment resisting frames as functions of period, allowable interstorey drift and damage levels and b) the damping reduction factor that modifies elastic acceleration spectra for high levels of damping. Thus, a new performance-based design method is established. The direct dependence of the modal strength reduction factor on desired interstorey drift and damage levels permits the control of deformations without their determination and secures that deformations will not exceed these levels. By means of certain seismic design examples presented herein, it is demonstrated that the use of different values for the strength reduction factor per mode instead of a single common value for all modes, leads to more accurate results in a more rational way than the code-based ones.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.315-320
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• 2012

In H.264/AVC, the first frame of a group of pictures (GOP) is encoded in intra mode which generates a large number of bits. The number of bits for the I-frame affects the qualities of the following frames of a GOP since they are encoded using the bits remaining among the bits allocated to the GOP. In addition, the first frame is used for the inter mode encoding of the following frames. Thus, the initial quantization parameter (QP) affects the following frames as well as the first frame. In this paper, an adaptive peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR)-based initial QP determination algorithm is presented. In the proposed algorithm, a novel linear model is established based on the observation of the relation between the initial QPs and PSNRs of frames. Using the linear model and PSNR results of the encoded GOPs, the proposed algorithm accurately estimates the optimal initial QP which maximizes the PSNR of the current GOP. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed algorithm predicts the optimal initial QP accurately and thus achieves better PSNR performance than that of the existing algorithm.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.343-358
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• 2023

The superelastic viscous damper (SVD) is a hybrid passive control device comprising a viscoelastic damper and shape memory alloy (SMA) cables connected in series. The SVD is an innovative damper through which a large amount of seismic energy can dissipate. The current study assessed the seismic collapse induced by steel moment-resisting frames (SMRFs) equipped with SVDs and compared them with the performance of special MRFs and buckling restrained brace frames (BRBFs). For this purpose, nonlinear dynamic and incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) were conducted in OpenSees software. Both 5- and 9-story special MRFs, BRBFs, and MRFs equipped with the SVDs were examined. The results indicated that the annual exceedance rate for maximum residual drifts of 0.2% and 0.5% for the BRBFs and MRFs with SVDs, respectively, were considerably less than for SMRFs with reduced-beam section (RBS) connections and that the seismic performances of these structures were enhanced with the use of the BRB and SVD. The probability of collapse due to residual drift in the SVD, BRB, and RBS frames in the 9-story structure was 1.45, 1.75, and 1.05 times greater than for the 5-story frame.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.79-89
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• 2017

As a new type of energy dissipation component with excellent mechanical performance, the Buckling-Retrained Braces (BRBs) were gradually applied in retrofitting and improving seismic performance of reinforced concrete structures in China. In order to investigate the seismic performance of reinforced concrete structures retrofitted with BRBs, quasi-static test of two single-bay and 3-story reinforced concrete frames specimens was conducted and introduced in this paper. Two 1/2 scaled specimens were designed to reflect real prototype structure. For comparison, one control specimen was designed without BRBs, and the other specimen was retrofitted with BRBs. And particularly, for the specimen retrofitted with BRBs, the BRBs were eccentric layout instead of usually concentric or x-shaped layout, aiming to be more suitable for large-span frames. In the test, the failure mode, carrying capacity, deformability, ductility and energy dissipation ability of both two specimens were investigated. Based on the test results of the measured hysterical curves, skeleton curves, the seismic performances such as bearing capacity, plastic deformability, energy dissipation ability and ductility of two specimens were fully studied. And from the test results, it was indicated that the specimen retrofitted with BRBs showed much better seismic performance than the control specimen without BRBs, and the BRBs could effectively improve the seismic performance of the reinforced concrete frame. For the specimen retrofitted with BRBs, the BRBs firstly yielded before the beam-ends and the column-ends, and an expected yielding process or yielding mechanism as well as good seismic performance was obtained. For the specimens without BRBs, though the beam-ends yielded prior to the column-ends, the seismic performance was much poor than that of the specimen with BRBs.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.23-31
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• 2010

모바일 영상 서비스와 센서 네트워크와 같은 저전력, 저복잡도의 비디오 부호기를 필요로 하는 분야의 수요가 증대됨에 따라 프레임간의 상관성을 이용하지 않고 압축함으로써 낮은 복잡도로도 높은 압축률을 얻을 수 있는 분산 비디오 코딩에 대한 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 분산 비디오 코딩에서 부호기는 오류정정 부호기를 이용하여 원래 영상보다 압축된 형태의 신드롬을 생성한다. 반면, 복호기에서는 원본 영상을 추정하고 부호기에서 만들어진 신드롬을 이용하여 추정한 원본 영상의 오류를 정정한다. 이 때, 추정된 원본 영상을 보조 정보라 하며, 보조 정보는 원본 영상이 가상의 상관 채널을 통해 얻어진 영상이라 해석할 수 있다. 분산 비디오 코딩의 성능 향상을 위해서는 오류 정정 복호기와 최적 복원과정의 성능향상이 필요하며, 두 과정 모두 가상의 상관 채널의 정확도에 영향을 받는다. 본 논문에서는 오류 정정 복호기와 복원과정에서 최적의 입력값을 예측하기 위하여, 상관 채널의 구성 파라미터의 정확한 추정을 위한 효과적인 알고리즘들을 제안한다. 일반적으로 상관 채널은 라플라시안 분포로 모델링 되는데, 이 분포와 실제 채널 측정값과의 자승오류를 최소화 하는 알고리즘인 최소자승법 및 복잡도를 낮춘 변형된 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 또한, 신뢰구간 설정으로 기존의 채널 파라미터 추정 알고리즘을 사용할 때 오류를 줄이는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘으로 Mother 영상과 Foreman 영상에서 각각 최대 PSNR이득 1.8 dB와 1.1 dB를 얻었으며, 특히 상관도가 낮은 영역에서 더 효과적인 성능 개선을 보인다.