• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.767-788
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• 2004

The classical 8-node isoparametric serendipity element uses parametric shape functions for both test and trial functions. Although this element performs well in general, it yields poor results under severe mesh distortions. The distortion sensitivity is caused by the lack of continuity and/or completeness of shape functions used for test and trial functions. A recent element using parametric and metric shape functions for constructing the test and trial functions exhibits distortion immunity. This paper discusses the choice of parametric or metric shape functions as the basis for test and/or trial functions, satisfaction of continuity and completeness requirements, and their connection to distortion sensitivity. Also, the performances of four types of elements, viz., parametric, metric, parametric-metric, and metric-parametric, are compared for distorted meshes, and their merits and demerits are discussed.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the International Welding/Joining Conference-Korea
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• pp.694-699
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• 2002

In autobody assembly, thin-wall, tubular connections have been used for the frame structure. Recent interest in light materials, such as aluminum or magnesium alloys, has been rapidly growing for weight reduction and fuel efficiency. Due to higher thermal expansion coefficient, low stiffness/strength, and low softening temperature of aluminum and magnesium alloys, control of welding-induced distortion in these connections becomes a critical issue. In this study, the material sensitivity to welding distortion was investigated using a T-tubular connection of three types materials; low carbon steel (A500 Gr. A), aluminum alloy (5456-H116) and magnesium alloy (AZ91C-T6). An uncoupled thermal and mechanical finite element analysis scheme using the ABAQUS software program was developed to model and simulate the welding process, welding procedure and material behaviors. The predicted angular distortions were correlated to the cumulative plastic strains. A unique relationship between distortion and plastic strains exists for all three materials studied. The amount of distortion is proportional to the magnitude and distribution of the cumulative plastic strains in the weldment. The magnesium alloy has the highest distortion sensitivity, followed by the other two materials with the steel connection having the least distortion. Results from studies of thin-aluminum plates show that welding distortion can be minimized by reducing the cumulative plastic strains by preventing heat diffusion into the base metal using a strong heat sink placed directly beneath the weld. A rapid cooling method is recommended to reduce welding distortion of magnesium tubular connections.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권9호
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• pp.1613-1631
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• 2011

Several metrics have been reported in the literature to assess stereo image quality, mostly based on visual attention or human visual sensitivity based distortion prediction with the help of disparity information, which do not consider the combined aspects of human visual processing. In this paper, visual attention and depth assisted stereo image quality assessment model (VAD-SIQAM) is devised that consists of three main components, i.e., stereo attention predictor (SAP), depth variation (DV), and stereo distortion predictor (SDP). Visual attention is modeled based on entropy and inverse contrast to detect regions or objects of interest/attention. Depth variation is fused into the attention probability to account for the amount of changed depth in distorted stereo images. Finally, the stereo distortion predictor is designed by integrating distortion probability, which is based on low-level human visual system (HVS), responses into actual attention probabilities. The results show that regions of attention are detected among the visually significant distortions in the stereo image pair. Drawbacks of human visual sensitivity based picture quality metrics are alleviated by integrating visual attention and depth information. We also show that positive correlation with ground-truth attention and depth maps are increased by up to 0.949 and 0.936 in terms of the Pearson and the Spearman correlation coefficients, respectively.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.106-111
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• 2011

In this paper, assumed mode method on Euler beam theory is employed and signal distortion is considered to obtain the performances of a MEMS accelerometer which are a sensitivity and measurable frequency range(MFR). Not only the sensitivities and MFR but also the variations of dynamic responses and natural frequencies of the MEMS accelerometer are investigated for several sets of beam properties such as length, width, thickness and Young's modulus. It is stated that the variations of beam properties significantly influence the performances of the MEMS accelerometer and the relationship between sensitivities and MFR is inversely proportional to each other.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.5209-5228
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• 2015

According to the characteristics of adaptive JPEG steganography which determines the changed DCT coefficients based on embedding distortion, a new steganalysis method by selecting the DCT coefficients with small distortion values is proposed. Firstly, the principle of adaptive JPEG steganography through minimizing distortion is introduced. Secondly, the practicability of selecting the changed DCT coefficients according to distortion values is studied. Thirdly, the proposed steganalysis method is given and the embedding sensitivity of the steganalysis feature extracted from the selected DCT coefficients is analyzed. Lastly, the implement processes of the proposed method are presented and analyzed in details. In the experiments, PQt, PQe and J-UNIWARD steganography are used as examples to verify the effect of the proposed steganalysis method for adaptive JPEG steganography. A serial experimental results show the detection accuracy can be improved obviously, especially when the payload is relatively low.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.587-599
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• 1996

In general fractal imge compression, each range block is approximated by a contractive transform of the matching domain block under the mean squared error criterion. In this paper, a distortion measure reflecting the properties of human visual system is defined and applied to a fractal image compression. the perceptual distortion measure is obtained by multiplying the mean square error and the noise sensitivity modeled by using the background brightness and spatial masking. In order to compare the performance of the mean squared error and perceptual distortion measure, a simulation is carried out by using the 512*512 Lena and papper gray image. Compared to the results, 6%-10% compression ratio improvements under improvements under the same image quality are achieved in the perceptual distortion measure.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.247-253
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• 2016

초음파 장비는 여러 질환을 진단하는 장비로서 널리 사용되고 있으나, 초음파영상 품질의 평가방법에서는 정량적 표준이 없는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 ATS-539 다목적 팬텀 내 8 mm 표적의 파라미터로서 주파수, Dynamic range, 초점수를 변화하여 예민도의 SNR과 영상의 히스토그램을 분석하고 왜곡도를 측정하여 표적별 적합한 주파수 및 파라미터를 도출하여 초음파영상의 병변 진단율을 향상 하고자 한다. 실험재료는 초음파 장비, ATS-539 다목적 팬텀을 사용하며, 실험방법은 영상 평가 팬텀의 8 mm를 주파수(2, 3, 4 MHz, 하모닉 3, 4, 4.5 MHz), Dynamic range(58, 68, 78, 88, 98), Focus(2, 4, 6개)를 변화시키면서 85장의 영상을 획득한다. 8 mm 영상의 예민도를 Image J 프로그램에서 각 표적별 SNR을 측정하고, 왜곡도는 신호의 히스토그램에서 백그라운드 값을 뺄셈하여 측정한다. 측정 결과 값에서 상위 40% 결과에서 파라미터 변화에 따라 예민도의 SNR, 왜곡도의 변화양상의 데이터 값을 산출하여 초음파 장비에서 적절한 영상의 품질을 나타내는 파라미터를 도출하였다. 결과는 초점수가 증가하면 SNR이 높고 왜곡도가 감소하며, 주파수 4 MHz에서 SNR값이 높고 왜곡도가 감소하였다. 그리고 Dynamic range 88, 98에서 최적의 영상을 나타내었으며, 실험 결과값을 기초로 초음파영상의 품질을 평가한다면 보다 정확한 초음파 진단이 가능할 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.69-74
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• 1985

본 논문에서는 먼저 Sensitivity가 가장 낮은 LC Ladder 필터로 부터 FDNR frequency dependent negative resists.) 방식을 이용하여 5차 Butterworth 저역 통과 능동 RC필터를 설계하였으며 능동 RC 필터를 SCF(switched capacito, filter)로 변조하는 과정에서 Bilinear Z변환을 이용하였다. Bilinear Z 변환으로 설계된 SCF에서 aliasing 현상은 피할수 있으나 주파수 대곡이 발생한다. 아나로그 필터를 디지틀 릴터로 변환하면 이러한 영향으로 속단 주파수 영역이 일치하지 않으므로 이것을 적게 하기 위하여 Prewarping을 해준다. 그 결과 Prewarping된 SCF는 Bilinear Z 변환된 SCF보다 각파수 이유이 현저하게 개선됨을 확인하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.93-110
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• 2000

An alternative interpretation of the completeness requirements for the higher order elements is presented. Apart from the familiar condition, $\sum_iN_i=1$, some additional conditions to be satisfied by the shape functions of higher order elements are identified. Elements with their geometry in the natural form, i.e., without any geometrical distortion, satisfy most of these additional conditions inherently. However, the geometrically distorted elements satisfy only fewer conditions. The practical implications of the satisfaction or non-satisfaction of these additional conditions are investigated with respect to a 3-node bar element, and 8- and 9-node quadrilateral elements. The results suggest that non-satisfaction of these additional conditions results in poorer performance of the element when the element is geometrically distorted. Based on the new interpretation of completeness requirements, a 3-node element and an 8-node rectangular element that are insensitive to mid-node distortion under a quadratic displacement field have been developed.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

MR 센서에 의해 지구자기장의 세기를 측정하여 방위각을 결정하는 전자 Compass의 정밀도는 MR센서 및 OP-Amp.의 온도 Drift, DC Offset등 소자에 의한 오차, 측정주변 자성체에 의한 자기장의 왜곡, 및 Compass Tilt에 의한 오차 등의 영향을 받는다. 본 연구에서는 Set/Reset Pulse 방법에 의해 MR 센서 및 OP-Amp의 온도 Drift 및 DC Offset에 의한 오차를 해결하였고, 주변 자성체에 의한 자기장의 왜곡에 의한 오차를 Hard-Iron Calibration 루틴 수행에 의해 보상하였으며, Compass Tilt에 의한 오차를 Euler Rotational Equation에 의해 보상할 수 있는 3축 MR 센서 및 3축 Accelerometer를 기반으로 하는 전자 Compass 를 설계하였다. 특히 이와 샅이 설계한 전자 Compass를 가지고 3측 MR 센서의 서로 다른 Sensitivity와 OP-Amp.의 서로 다른 Gain등을 규준화하기 위한 Sensitivity Calibration 루틴 수행 시 Tilt의 발생으로 야기되는 오차를 정량적으로 분석하였으며, 이를 바탕으로 $1^{\circ}$정도(精度) Compass를 설계할 수 있었다.