• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제27권8호
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• pp.1353-1362
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• 2003

This paper considers a simultaneous optimization problem of structure and control systems. The problem is generally formulated as a non-convex optimization problem for the design parameters of mechanical structure and controller. Therefore, it is not easy to obtain the global solutions for practical problems. In this paper, we parameterize all design parameters of the mechanical structure such that the parameters work in the control system as decentralized static output feedback gains. Using this parameterization, we have formulated a simultaneous optimization problem in which the design specification is defined by the Η$_2$and Η$\_$$\infty$/ norms of the closed loop transfer function. So as to lead to a convex problem we approximate the nonlinear terms of design parameters to the linear terms. Then, we propose a convex optimization method that is based on linear matrix inequality (LMI). Using this method, we can surely obtain suboptimal solution for the design specification. A numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.5605-5623
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• 2016

We propose a face recognition method that utilizes the LCP face descriptor. The proposed method applies a LoG mask to extract a face contour response, and employs the LCP algorithm to produce a binary pattern representation that ensures high recognition performance even under the changes in illumination, noise, and aging. The proposed LCP algorithm produces excellent noise reduction and efficiency in removing unnecessary information from the face by extracting a face contour response using the LoG mask, whose behavior is similar to the human eye. Majority of reported algorithms search for face contour response information. On the other hand, our proposed LCP algorithm produces results expressing major facial information by applying the threshold to the search area with only 8 bits. However, the LCP algorithm produces results that express major facial information with only 8-bits by applying a threshold value to the search area. Therefore, compared to previous approaches, the LCP algorithm maintains a consistent accuracy under varying circumstances, and produces a high face recognition rate with a relatively small feature vector. The test results indicate that the LCP algorithm produces a higher facial recognition rate than the rate of human visual's recognition capability, and outperforms the existing methods.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.695-702
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• 2010

This paper presents an image alignment algorithm for application of AOI (Automatic Optical Inspection) based on SIFT. Since the correspondences result using SIFT descriptor have many wrong points for aligning, this paper modified and classified those points by five measures called the CCFMR (Cascade Classifier for False Matching Reduction) After reduced the false matching, rotation and translation are estimated by point selection method. Experimental results show that the proposed method has fewer fail matching in comparison to commercial software MIL 8.0, and specially, less than twice with the well-controlled environment’s data sets (such as AOI system). The rotation and translation accuracy is robust than MIL in the noise data sets, but the errors are higher than in a rotation variation data sets although that also meaningful result in the practical system. In addition to, the computational time consumed by the proposed method is four times shorter than that by MIL which increases linearly according to noise.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.892-911
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• 2019

Biometric recognition systems have been widely used for information security. Among the most popular biometric traits, there are fingerprint and face due to their high recognition accuracies. However, the security system that uses face recognition as the login method are vulnerable to face-spoofing attacks, from using printed photo or video of the valid user. In this study, we propose a fast and robust method to detect face-spoofing attacks based on the analysis of spatial frequency differences between the real and fake videos. We found that the effect of a spoofing attack stands out more prominently in certain regions of the 2D Fourier spectra and, therefore, it is adequate to use the information about those regions to classify the input video or image as real or fake. We adopt a divide-conquer-aggregate approach, where we first divide the frequency domain image into local blocks, classify each local block independently, and then aggregate all the classification results by the weighted-sum approach. The effectiveness of the methodology is demonstrated using two different publicly available databases, namely: 1) Replay Attack Database and 2) CASIA-Face Anti-Spoofing Database. Experimental results show that the proposed method provides state-of-the-art performance by processing fewer frames of each video.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.9-20
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• 2005

최근 멀티미디어 정보를 기술하기 위한 표준인 MPEG-7이 제안되어 이미지/동영상 검색 시스템과 간은 응용분야에서 사용되기 시작하였다. 그러나 MPEG-7 시각 정보 기술자들은 대부분 고차원으로 표현이 되고, 고차원에서 발생되는 문제인 "Curse of dimensionality" 때문에 기존의 인덱싱 방법(예를 들면 트리 구조를 이용하는 다차원 인덱싱 방법, 차원을 줄이는 방법, 양자화 등의 압축 기법을 이용하는 방법 등)으로는 효율적인 검색을 할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG-7 시각 정보 기술자들의 특징을 반영한 효율적인 인덱싱 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 기술자를 속성 히스토그램으로 변형하고 히스토그램의 자 빈 값을 이진 형태로 표현하여 비트열을 생성하며, 이러한 비트열들을 이용하여 비트맵 인덱스를 구성한다. 질의 오브젝트가 입력되면 비트맵 인덱스를 이용하여 결과에 포함될 가능성이 있는 후보 오브젝트 리스트를 생성하게 되는데 즉, 각 오브젝트의 인덱스와 질의 오브젝트의 비트열에 대한 XOR(Exclusive OR) 연산을 수행하여서 후보 오브젝트 리스트를 생성한다. 그리고 이 리스트에 있는 오브젝트들에 대해서만 L1-norm과 같은, 기술자를 위해 사용되는 비교 연산식을 수행하여 최종 결과 오브젝트들을 사용자에게 보여주게 된다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 알고리즘은 단순한 비트 연산을 통해 검색 결과에 포함될 가능성이 있는 오브젝트들을 추출해낼 수 있기 때문에 빠른 시간 내에 검색을 마칠 수 있도록 해준다. 실험에 의하면 제안한 방법을 이용하는 경우, 90% 이상의 정확도를 유지하면서 검색 시간에서는 순차 검색에 비해 15배 이상의 속도 향상을 보임을 알 수 있었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.723-732
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• 2019

Globally road transport networks are subjected to continuous levels of stress from increasing loading and environmental effects. As the most popular mean of transport in the UK the condition of this civil infrastructure is a key indicator of economic growth and productivity. Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems can provide a valuable insight to the true condition of our aging infrastructure. In particular, monitoring of the displacement of a bridge structure under live loading can provide an accurate descriptor of bridge condition. In the past B-WIM systems have been used to collect traffic data and hence provide an indicator of bridge condition, however the use of such systems can be restricted by bridge type, assess issues and cost limitations. This research provides a non-contact low cost AI based solution for vehicle classification and associated bridge displacement using computer vision methods. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been adapted to develop the QUBYOLO vehicle classification method from recorded traffic images. This vehicle classification was then accurately related to the corresponding bridge response obtained under live loading using non-contact methods. The successful identification of multiple vehicle types during field testing has shown that QUBYOLO is suitable for the fine-grained vehicle classification required to identify applied load to a bridge structure. The process of displacement analysis and vehicle classification for the purposes of load identification which was used in this research adds to the body of knowledge on the monitoring of existing bridge structures, particularly long span bridges, and establishes the significant potential of computer vision and Deep Learning to provide dependable results on the real response of our infrastructure to existing and potential increased loading.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.46-56
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• 2016

Dynamic textures are videos that exhibit a stationary property with respect to time (i.e., they have patterns that repeat themselves over a large number of frames). These patterns can easily be tracked by a linear dynamic system. In this paper, a model that identifies the underlying linear dynamic system using wavelet coefficients, rather than a raw sequence, is proposed. Content based threshold filtering based on Set Partitioning in a Hierarchical Tree (SPIHT) helps to get another representation of the same frames that only have low frequency components. The main idea of this paper is to apply SPIHT based threshold filtering on different bands of wavelet transform so as to have more significant information in fewer parameters for singular value decomposition (SVD). In this case, more flexibility is given for the component selection, as SVD is independently applied to the different bands of frames of a dynamic texture. To minimize the time complexity, the proposed model is implemented on a graphics processing unit (GPU). Test results show that the proposed dynamic system, along with a discrete wavelet and SPIHT, achieve a highly compact model with better visual quality, than the available LDS, Fourier descriptor model, and higher-order SVD (HOSVD).

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.3086-3103
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• 2017

Video images captured by vehicle cameras often contain blurry or dithering frames due to inadvertent motion from bumps in the road or by insufficient illumination during the morning or evening, which greatly reduces the perception of objects expression and recognition from the records. Therefore, a real-time electronic stabilization method to correct fuzzy video from driving recorders has been proposed. In the first stage of feature detection, a coarse-to-fine inspection policy and a scale nonlinear diffusion filter are proposed to provide more accurate keypoints. Second, a new antiblurry binary descriptor and a feature point selection strategy for unintentional estimation are proposed, which brought more discriminative power. In addition, a new evaluation criterion for affine region detectors is presented based on the percentage interval of repeatability. The experiments show that the proposed method exhibits improvement in detecting blurry corner points. Moreover, it improves the performance of the algorithm and guarantees high processing speed at the same time.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.835-851
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• 2015

This paper presents theoretical and experimental evaluation of the structural health monitoring (SHM) capability of piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) at elevated temperatures. This is important because the technologies for structural sensing and monitoring need to account for the thermal effect and compensate for it. Permanently installed PWAS transducers have been One of the extensively employed sensor technologies for in-situ continuous SHM. In this paper, the electro-mechanical impedance spectroscopy (EMIS) method has been utilized as a dynamic descriptor of PWAS behavior and as a high frequency standing wave local modal technique. Another SHM technology utilizes PWAS as far-field transient transducers to excite and detect guided waves propagating through the structure. This paper first presents how the EMIS method is used to qualify and quantify circular PWAS resonators in an increasing temperature environment up to 230 deg C. The piezoelectric material degradation with temperature was investigated and trends of variation with temperature were deduced from experimental measurements. These effects were introduced in a wave propagation simulation software called Wave Form Revealer (WFR). The thermal effects on the substrate material were also considered. Thus, the changes in the propagating guided wave signal at various temperatures could be simulated. The paper ends with summary and conclusions followed by suggestions for further work.

• 한국비블리아학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.157-175
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• 2005

본 논문의 목적은 멀티미디어 내용을 표현하기 위해 제정된 MPEG-7의 비주얼 디스크립터를 설명하고 분석하기 위한 것이다. MPEG-7의 비주얼 디스크립터는 컬러, 모양, 질감, 모션으로 구성되어 있으며 이들 각각의 요소들에 대해 예제 및 응용분야와 더불어서 자세히 설명하고 있다. 마지막으로 본 연구에서는 이들 비주얼 디스크립터에 대한 전반적인 응용분야를 기술하고 있다. 이러한 비주얼 디스크립터들은 다양한 모양의 멀티미디어 내용을 인간의 개입 없이 자동으로 풍부하고 상세하게 표현할 수 있으며 내용 표현의 일관성을 유지하게 함으로써 멀티미디어 검색의 성능을 향상시킬 뿐 아니라 시스템간의 상호운영성을 향상 시킬 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.