• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2021

Recently, image super-resolution techniques used in convolutional neural networks (CNN) have led to remarkable performance in the research area of digital image processing applications and computer vision tasks. Convolutional layers stacked on top of each other can design a more complex network architecture, but they also use more memory in terms of the number of parameters and introduce the vanishing gradient problem during training. Furthermore, earlier approaches of single image super-resolution used interpolation technique as a pre-processing stage to upscale the low-resolution image into HR image. The design of these approaches is simple, but not effective and insert the newer unwanted pixels (noises) in the reconstructed HR image. In this paper, authors are propose a novel single image super-resolution architecture based on synchronized depthwise separable convolution with Dense Skip Connection Block (DSCB). In addition, unlike existing SR methods that only rely on single path, but our proposed method used the synchronizes path for generating the SISR image. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments show that our method (SDCN) achieves promising improvements than other state-of-the-art methods.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.98-106
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• 2022

A condition of the retina known as hypertensive retinopathy (HR) is connected to high blood pressure. The severity and persistence of hypertension are directly correlated with the incidence of HR. To avoid blindness, it is essential to recognize and assess HR as soon as possible. Few computer-aided systems are currently available that can diagnose HR issues. On the other hand, those systems focused on gathering characteristics from a variety of retinopathy-related HR lesions and categorizing them using conventional machine-learning algorithms. Consequently, for limited applications, significant and complicated image processing methods are necessary. As seen in recent similar systems, the preciseness of classification is likewise lacking. To address these issues, a new CAD HR-diagnosis system employing the advanced Deep Dense CNN Learning (DD-CNN) technology is being developed to early identify HR. The HR-diagnosis system utilized a convolutional neural network that was previously trained as a feature extractor. The statistical investigation of more than 1400 retinography images is undertaken to assess the accuracy of the implemented system using several performance metrics such as specificity (SP), sensitivity (SE), area under the receiver operating curve (AUC), and accuracy (ACC). On average, we achieved a SE of 97%, ACC of 98%, SP of 99%, and AUC of 0.98. These results indicate that the proposed DD-CNN classifier is used to diagnose hypertensive retinopathy.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.1034-1046
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• 2022

The learning-based multiview stereo (MVS) methods for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction generally use 3D volumes for depth inference. The quality of the reconstructed depth maps and the corresponding point clouds is directly influenced by the spatial resolution of the 3D volume. Consequently, these methods produce point clouds with sparse local regions because of the lack of the memory required to encode a high volume of information. Here, we apply the atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) module in MVS methods to obtain dense feature maps with multiscale, long-range, contextual information using high receptive fields. For a given 3D volume with the same spatial resolution as that in the MVS methods, the dense feature maps from the ASPP module encoded with superior information can produce dense point clouds without a high memory footprint. Furthermore, we propose a 3D loss for training the MVS networks, which improves the predicted depth values by 24.44%. The ASPP module provides state-of-the-art qualitative results by constructing relatively dense point clouds, which improves the DTU MVS dataset benchmarks by 2.25% compared with those achieved in the previous MVS methods.

• 한국차세대컴퓨팅학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.66-74
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• 2018

최근 가상환경에서 몰입감을 늘리고 자유로운 상호작용을 제공하기 위한 손 제스처 인식에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 그러나 기존의 연구는 특화된 센서나 장비를 요구하거나, 낮은 인식률을 보이고 있다. 본 논문은 정적 손 제스처와 동적 손 제스처 인식을 위해 카메라 이외의 별도의 센서나 장비 없이 딥러닝 기술을 사용한 손 제스처 인식 방법을 제안한다. 일련의 손 제스처 영상을 고주파 영상으로 변환한 후 손 제스처 RGB 영상들과 이에 대한 고주파 영상들 각각에 대해 덴스넷 3차원 합성곱 신경망을 통해 학습한다. 6개의 정적 손 제스처와 9개의 동적 손 제스처 인터페이스에 대해 실험한 결과 기존 덴스넷에 비해 4.6%의 성능이 향상된 평균 92.6%의 인식률을 보였다. 본 연구결과를 검증하기 위하여 3D 디펜스 게임을 구현한 결과 평균 34ms로 제스처 인식이 가능하여 가상현실 응용의 실시간 사용자 인터페이스로 사용가능함을 알 수 있었다.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.229-239
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• 2022

Convolution Neural Network(CNN) is a class of deep learning algorithms and can be used for image analysis. In particular, it has excellent performance in finding the pattern of images. Therefore, CNN is commonly applied for recognizing, learning and classifying images. In this study, the surface defect classification performance of Al 6061 extruded material using CNN-based algorithms were compared and evaluated. First, the data collection criteria were suggested and a total of 2,024 datasets were prepared. And they were randomly classified into 1,417 learning data and 607 evaluation data. After that, the size and quality of the training data set were improved using data augmentation techniques to increase the performance of deep learning. The CNN-based algorithms used in this study were VGGNet-16, VGGNet-19, ResNet-50 and DenseNet-121. The evaluation of the defect classification performance was made by comparing the accuracy, loss, and learning speed using verification data. The DenseNet-121 algorithm showed better performance than other algorithms with an accuracy of 99.13% and a loss value of 0.037. This was due to the structural characteristics of the DenseNet model, and the information loss was reduced by acquiring information from all previous layers for image identification in this algorithm. Based on the above results, the possibility of machine vision application of CNN-based model for the surface defect classification of Al extruded materials was also discussed.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.416-422
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• 2021

Due to the large differences in human activity within classes, the large similarity between classes, and the problems of visual angle and occlusion, it is difficult to extract features manually, and the detection rate of human behavior is low. In order to better solve these problems, an improved Faster R-CNN-based detection algorithm is proposed in this paper. It achieves multi-object recognition and localization through a second-order detection network, and replaces the original feature extraction module with Dense-Net, which can fuse multi-level feature information, increase network depth and avoid disappearance of network gradients. Meanwhile, the proposal merging strategy is improved with Soft-NMS, where an attenuation function is designed to replace the conventional NMS algorithm, thereby avoiding missed detection of adjacent or overlapping objects, and enhancing the network detection accuracy under multiple objects. During the experiment, the improved Faster R-CNN method in this article has 84.7% target detection result, which is improved compared to other methods, which proves that the target recognition method has significant advantages and potential.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.21-32
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• 2022

Early-stage diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) from Cognitively Normal (CN) patients is crucial because treatment at an early stage of AD can prevent further progress in the AD's severity in the future. Recently, computer-aided diagnosis using magnetic resonance image (MRI) has shown better performance in the classification of AD. However, these methods use a traditional machine learning algorithm that requires supervision and uses a combination of many complicated processes. In recent research, the performance of deep neural networks has outperformed the traditional machine learning algorithms. The ability to learn from the data and extract features on its own makes the neural networks less prone to errors. In this paper, a dense neural network is designed for binary classification of Alzheimer's disease. To create a classifier with better results, we studied result of different activation functions in the prediction. We obtained results from 5-folds validations with combinations of different activation functions and compared with each other, and the one with the best validation score is used to classify the test data. In this experiment, features used to train the model are obtained from the ADNI database after processing them using FreeSurfer software. For 5-folds validation, two groups: AD and CN are classified. The proposed DNN obtained better accuracy than the traditional machine learning algorithms and the compared previous studies for AD vs. CN, AD vs. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and MCI vs. CN classifications, respectively. This neural network is robust and better.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.2882-2903
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• 2022

Image super-resolution (SR) processing is of great value in the fields of digital image processing, intelligent security, film and television production and so on. This paper proposed a densely connected deep learning network based on cascade architecture, which can be used to solve the problem of super-resolution in the field of image quality enhancement. We proposed a more efficient residual scaling dense block (RSDB) and the multi-channel cascade architecture to realize more efficient feature reuse. Also we proposed a hybrid loss function based on L₁ error and L_∞ error to achieve better L_∞ error performance. The experimental results show that the overall performance of the network is effectively improved on cascade architecture and residual scaling. Compared with the residual dense net (RDN), the PSNR / SSIM of the new method is improved by 2.24% / 1.44% respectively, and the L_∞ performance is improved by 3.64%. It shows that the cascade connection and residual scaling method can effectively realize feature reuse, improving the residual convergence speed and learning efficiency of our network. The L_∞ performance is improved by 11.09% with only a minimal loses of 1.14% / 0.60% on PSNR / SSIM performance after adopting the new loss function. That is to say, the L_∞ performance can be improved greatly on the new loss function with a minor loss of PSNR / SSIM performance, which is of great value in L_∞ error sensitive tasks.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.561-568
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• 2021

최근 자율주행에 관한 기술은 고부가가치 신기술로서 주목받고 있으며 활발히 연구가 진행되고 있는 분야이다. 상용화 가능한 자율주행을 위해서는 실시간으로 정확하게 진입하는 객체를 탐지하고 이동속도를 추정해야 한다. CNN(Convolutional Neural Network) 기반 딥러닝 알고리즘과 밀집광학흐름(Dense Optical Flow)을 사용하는 기존 방식은 실행 속도가 느려 실시간으로 객체를 탐지하고 이동속도를 추정하기에는 한계가 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 트램에 설치된 카메라를 통해 획득된 주행영상에서 딥러닝 알고리즘인 YOLOv5 알고리즘을 활용하여 실시간으로 객체를 탐지를 수행하고, 탐지된 객체영역에서 기존의 밀집광학흐름(Dense Optical Flow) 대신 연산량을 개선한 부분 밀집광학흐름(Local Dense Optical Flow)을 사용하여 객체의 진행 방향과 속력을 빠르게 추정하는 방식을 제안한다. 이를 바탕으로 충돌 시간과 충돌 지점을 예측할 수 있는 모델을 설계하였으며, 이를 통해 트램(Tram)의 주행 중 전방 충돌사고를 방지할 수 있는 시스템에 적용하고자 한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.162-168
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• 2007

A new scheme for bi-directional HDTV/Gigabit Ethernet/CATV transmission over a hybrid dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing passive optical network (DWDM-PON) is proposed and demonstrated. It is based on injection-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and distributed-feedback laser diodes as transmitters. Services with 129 HDTV channels, a 1.25 Gbps Gigabit Ethernet connection, and 77 CATV channels are successfully demonstrated over 40 km single-mode fiber links. Good performance of bit error rate, carrier-to-noise ratio, composite second order, and composite triple beat is achieved in our proposed bidirectional DWDM-PON.