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Saturation Headway of Through Movement at Signalized Intersections in Urban Area (도시부 신호교차로에서 직진이동류의 포화차두시간)

  • 이향숙;도철웅
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.23-31
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    • 2002
  • The headway of vehicles entering an intersection is closely related with the saturation flow rate and is a basic parameter required for determining the saturation headway and the start-up lost delay. Since such headway value reflects the drivers' behaviors and features of the intersection, all intersections don't have an equal value, but are affected by number and location of their lanes, changing types, local characteristics and time zone. Accordingly, this study attempted to suggest proper values on the basis of data by investigating headway in lanes. Number of exclusive through lanes was divided into single lane, double lanes and triple lanes, the locations of lanes were divided into inside lane, central lane and outside lane. As a result of investigating the headway, single through lane, double through lanes-inside lane, and triple through lane-outside lane showed as 1.73 sec., 1.71 sec. and 1.93sec., respectively. The result of calculating the area factor of business areas by fixing 1.00 for the residental area and applying relation between headway and saturation flow rate was 0.96. In the case of start-up lost delay lead dual left turn and directional separation were 1.41 sec. and 3.27 sec., respectively, showing the great difference. Therefore, different start-up lost delay according to changing type should be applied.

Vehicle Animation Making Tools based on Simulation and Trajectory Library (차량 시뮬레이션과 경로 라이브러리에 기반한 차량 애니메이션 저작도구)

  • Jeong, Jinuk;Kang, Daeun;Kwon, Taesoo
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.57-66
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we suggest a novel physics-based real-time animation technique for vehicles, and introduce an easy and intuitive animation authoring tool which uses our proposed technique. After a user specifies a trajectory of a virtual car as input, our system produces a more accurate simulation faster than a previous research result. This is achieved by a trajectory splitting method based on directional features and a trajectory library. As a result, the user can create not only a car animation including lane changing and passing, but also a crash animation which is a rarely researched topic. Also, we propose a virtual car structure that approximates a real car's structure for real-time simulation, the resulting animation shows high plausibility such as a small vibration which occurs when the virtual car breaks and a deformation of when a car accident happens.

Scene Text Extraction in Natural Images Using Color Variance Feature (색 변화 특징을 이용한 자연이미지에서의 장면 텍스트 추출)

  • 송영자;최영우
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2003.07e
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    • pp.1835-1838
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    • 2003
  • Texts in natural images contain significant and detailed informations about the images. Thus, to extract those texts correctly, we suggest a text extraction method using color variance feature. Generally, the texts in images have color variations with the backgrounds. Thus, if we express those variations in 3 dimensional RGB color space, we can emphasize the text regions that can be hard to be captured with a method using intensity variations in the gray-level images. We can even make robust extraction results with the images contaminated by light variations. The color variations are measured by color variance in this paper. First, horizontal and vertical variance images are obtained independently, and we can fine that the text regions have high values of the variances in both directions. Then, the two images are logically ANDed to remove the non-text components with only one directional high variance. We have applied the proposed method to the multiple kinds of the natural images, and we confirmed that the proposed feature can help to find the text regions that can he missed with the following features - intensity variations in the gray-level images and/or color continuity in the color images.

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Role of Rho A and F-actin for uropod formation in T lymphocytes (T 세포의 Uropod 형성에 있어 Rho A와 F-actin의 역할)

  • Lee, Jong-Hwan
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.17 no.2 s.82
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    • pp.192-197
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    • 2007
  • Two distinct morphological features, leading edge and uropod, in mobile T lymphocyte are crucial for efficient directional movement. The uropod is a unique rear protrusion in migrating lymphocytes, in which several proteins, including CD44, ERM (ezrin/radixin/moesin), and F-actin cytoskeleton are concentrated and concerted. F-actin cytoskeleton is a basic mold for the shape maintenance. Rho A small GTPase acts as cytoskeleton organizer, So far, various pathways potentially can induce the Rho activation. PDZ domain is able to increase active Rho A form (Rho-GTP) level, reorganize F-actin cytoskeleton, disrupts the uropod structure and cell migration was diminished, suggesting that signaling pathways between Rho and F-artin cytoskeleton are related to uropod formation.

Mechanical Behavior of Directionally Solicified (Y2O3)ZrO2/Al2O3 Eurtctic Fibers

  • Park, Deok-Yong;Yang, Jenn-Ming
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2004
  • The microstructural features and mechanical behavior of directionally solidified $(Y_2O_3)ZrO_2/Al_2O_3$ eutectic fibers after extended beat treatment in oxidizing environment were investigated. The fiber was grown continuously by an Edge-defined Film-fed Growth (EFG) technique. The microstructure was characterized using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy(SEM). The microstructure of the fiber in the as-fabricated state consists of highly oriented colonv and fine lamellar microstructure along the fiber axis. Tensile strength of the $(Y_2O_3)ZrO_2/Al_2O_3$ eutectic fiber remained unchanged with heat treatment at temperatures between $1200^{\circ}C$ and $1500^{\circ}C$ up to 300h. The weibulls modulus remained fairly constant after extended thermal exposure. The fracture toughness and crack propagation behavior were investigated. The fracture toughness ($K_{1C}$) of the $(Y_2O_3)ZrO_2/Al_2O_3$ eutectic fiber in the as-fabricated state were measured to be 3.6 ${\pm}$ 0.5 MPa${\cdot}m^{1/2}$ by an indentation technique and 2.2 ${\pm}$ 0.2 MPa${\cdot}m^{1/2}$ by assuming elliptical flaw of a semi-infinite solid, respectively. The $(Y_2O_3)ZrO_2/Al_2O_3$ eutectic fiber showed a radial (Palmqvist) crack type and exhibited an orthotropic crack growth behavior under 100 g load.

Method of Human Detection using Edge Symmetry and Feature Vector (에지 대칭과 특징 벡터를 이용한 사람 검출 방법)

  • Byun, Oh-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.57-66
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, it is proposed for algorithm to detect human efficiently using a edge symmetry and gradient directional characteristics in realtime by the feature extraction in a single input image. Proposed algorithm is composed of three stages, preprocessing, region partition of human candidates, verification of candidate regions. Here, preprocessing stage is strong the image regardless of the intensity and brightness of surrounding environment, also detects a contour with characteristics of human as considering the shape features size and the condition of human for characteristic of human. And stage for region partition of human candidates has separated the region with edge symmetry for human and size in the detected contour, also divided 1st candidates region with applying the adaboost algorithm. Finally, the candidate region verification stage makes excellent the performance for the false detection by verifying the candidate region using feature vector of a gradient for divided local area and classifier. The results of the simulations, which is applying the proposed algorithm, the processing speed of the proposed algorithms is improved approximately 1.7 times, also, the FNR(False Negative Rate) is confirmed to be better 3% than the conventional algorithm which is a single structure algorithm.

Directional Deinterlacing Method Using Local Gradient Features (국부 Gradient 특징을 이용한 방향성 deinterlacing 방법)

  • Woo, Dong-Hun;Eom, Il-Kyu;Kim, Yoo-Shin
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.42 no.5 s.305
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2005
  • Deinterlacing is the conversion from interlaced to progressive scan image that is considered to be 2 times image interpolation. In this paper, the simple and effective deinterlacing method is proposed based on the local gradient information of neighborhood pixels. In the proposed method, the weights for directions around the pixel to be interpolated are estimated, and the weighted sum for the neighborhood pixels is the final intensity value of the pixel to be interpolated. The proposed method has the structure suitable to practical implementation and can avoid the artifacts due to the wrong detection of edge direction. In the simulation, it showed improved subjective and objective performance than the ELA method and comparable performance compared with the variation of ELA method which has more complex structure and requires a couple of parameters that is determined by experience.

Enhanced Throughput and QoS Fairness for Two-Hop IEEE 802.16j Relay Networks

  • Kim, Sang-Won;Sung, Won-Jin;Jang, Ju-Wook
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.32-42
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    • 2011
  • Frequency reuse among relay stations (RSs) in a down-link access zone is widely adopted for throughput enhancement in IEEE 802.16j relay networks. Since the areas covered by the RSs or the base station (BS) may overlap, some mobile stations (MSs) at the border between two neighboring transmitting stations (RS or BS) using an identical frequency band may suffer severe interference or outage. This co-channel interference within the cell degrades the quality of service (QoS) fairness among the MSs as well as the system throughput. Exclusive use of a frequency band division (orthogonal resource allocation) among RSs can solve this problem but would cause degradation of the system throughput. We observe a trade-off between system throughput and QoS fairness in the previously reported schemes based on frequency reuse. In this paper, we propose a new frequency reuse scheme that achieves high system throughput with a high fairness level in QoS, positioning our scheme far above the trade-off curve formed by previous schemes. We claim that our scheme is beneficial for applications in which a high QoS level is required even for the MSs at the border. Exploiting the features of a directional antenna in the BS, we create a new zone in the frame structure. In the new zone, the RSs can serve the subordinate MSs at the border and prone to interference. In a 3-RS topology, where the RSs are located at points $120^{\circ}$ apart from one another, the throughput and Jain fairness index are 10.64 Mbps and 0.62, respectively. On the other hand, the throughput for the previously reported overlapped and orthogonal allocation schemes is 8.22 Mbps (fairness: 0.48) and 3.99 Mbps (fairness: 0.80), respectively. For a 6-RS topology, our scheme achieves a throughput of 18.38 Mbps with a fairness of 0.68; however, previous schemes with frequency reuse factors of 1, 2, 3, and 6 achieve a throughput of 15.24 Mbps (fairness: 0.53), 12.42 Mbps (fairness: 0.71),8.84 Mbps (fairness: 0.88), and 4.57 Mbps (fairness: 0.88), respectively.

Study on Development Method of MDMS for AMI Operation based on Common Information Model (CIM 기반 AMI용 미터데이터관리시스템(MDMS) 개발 방안 연구)

  • Jung, Nam-Joon;Jin, Young-Taek;Chae, Chang-Hun;Choi, Min-Hee
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.171-180
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    • 2012
  • In the development of MDMS(Meter Data Management System) based on CIM(Common Information Model), which is international standard in information model and data exchange on power system, the two focused issues are the effective management of data collected in a shorter time period and the way to integrate services supporting legacy system to use the AMI(AMI, Advanced Metering Infrastructure) data. In this paper, we propose MDMS implementation methods and functions in AMI environment which are differ from existing AMR system environments in that the methods support bi-directional service infrastructure. The proposed MDMS in this paper has two unique features, one is the secure of interoperability by utilizing the CIM and ESB, the other is the improvement of field application by implementing system module based on components. On an implementation of smart grid, the result of proposed methods is expected to contribute to the efficient development and operation of CIM-based power system.

A Image Search Algorithm using Coefficients of The Cosine Transform (여현변환 계수를 이용한 이미지 탐색 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Seok-Han
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.13-21
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    • 2019
  • The content based on image retrieval makes use of features of information within image such as color, texture and share for Retrieval data. we present a novel approach for improving retrieval accuracy based on DCT Filter-Bank. First, we perform DCT on a given image, and generate a Filter-Bank using the DCT coefficients for each color channel. In this step, DC and the limited number of AC coefficients are used. Next, a feature vector is obtained from the histogram of the quantized DC coefficients. Then, AC coefficients in the Filter-Bank are separated into three main groups indicating horizontal, vertical, and diagonal edge directions, respectively, according to their spatial-frequency properties. Each directional group creates its histogram after employing Otsu binarization technique. Finally, we project each histogram on the horizontal and vertical axes, and generate a feature vector for each group. The computed DC and AC feature vectors bins are concatenated, and it is used in the similarity checking procedure. We experimented using 1,000 databases, and as a result, this approach outperformed the old retrieval method which used color information.