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Common-path Optical Interferometry for Stabilized Dynamic Contrast Imaging: A Feasibility Study

  • Seung-Jin, Lee;Young-Wan, Choi;Woo June, Choi
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.65-72
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    • 2023
  • The motion of organelles inside a cell is an important intrinsic indicator for assessing cell physiology and tissue viability. Dynamic contrast full-field optical coherence tomography (D-FFOCT) is a promising imaging technology that can visualize intracellular movements using the variance of temporal interference signals caused by biological motions. However, double-path interferometry in D-FFOCT can be highly vulnerable to surrounding noise, which may cause turbulence in the interference signals, contaminating the sample dynamics. Therefore, we propose a method for stabilized D-FFOCT imaging in noisy environments by using common-path interferometry in D-FFOCT. A comparative study shows that D-FFOCT with the proposed method achieves stable dynamic contrast imaging of a scattering phantom in motion that is over tenfold more noise-insensitive compared to the conventional one, and thus this imaging capability can provide cleaner motion contrast images. With the proposed approach, the intracellular dynamics of biological samples are imaged and monitored.

Speaker Identification Using Score-based Confidence in Noisy Environments (스코어 기반 관측신뢰도를 이용한 잡음환경하 화자식별)

  • Min, So-Hee;Song, Min-Gyu;Na, Seung-You;Choi, Seung-Ho;Kim, Jin-Young
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.145-156
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    • 2007
  • The performance of speaker identification is severely degraded in noisy environments. Recently probability weighting method based on observation membership was proposed for overcoming the noise problem[1]. In the paper[1] the observation confidence was calculated from SNR with sigmoid function. However, estimating SNR needs additive calculation amount and estimated SNR is corrupted in dynamic noisy environments. In this paper we propose estimation methods of the observation confidence based on score-based reliabilities (SBR) of entropy and dispersion measures. Generally SBRs are obtained from speaker models' probabilities. The proposed methods are evaluated with ETRI speaker recognition DB. We compared the performances of the proposed methods with those in [1][8]. The experimental results show that the proposed methods can be successfully applied for the case where SNR is not available.

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Action Selections for an Autonomous Mobile Robot by Artificial Immune Network (인공면역망에 의한 자율이동로봇의 행동 선택)

  • 한상현;윤중선
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.532-532
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    • 2000
  • Conventional artificial intelligence systems are not properly responding under dynamically changing environments. To overcome this problem, reactive planning systems implementing new Al principles, called behavior-based Al or emergent computation, have been proposed and confirmed their usefulness. As another alternative, biological information processing systems may provide many feasible ideas to these problems. Immune system, among these systems, plays important roles to maintain its own system against dynamically changing environments. Therefore, immune system would provide a new paradigm suitable for dynamic problem dealing with unknown environments. In this paper, a new approach to behavior-based Al by paying attention to biological immune system is investigated. The feasibility of this method is confirmed by applying to behavior control of an autonomous mobile robot in cluttered environment.

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Local dynamic buckling of FPSO steel catenary riser by coupled time-domain simulations

  • Eom, T.S.;Kim, M.H.;Bae, Y.H.;Cifuentes, C.
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.215-241
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    • 2014
  • Steel catenary riser (SCR) is a popular/economical solution for the oil/gas production in deep and ultra-deep water. The behavioral characteristics of SCR have a high correlation with the motion of floating production facility at its survival and operational environments. When large motions of surface floaters occur, such as FPSO in 100-yr storm case, they can cause unacceptable negative tension on SCR near TDZ (touch down zone) and the corresponding elastic deflection can be large due to local dynamic buckling. The generation, propagation, and decay of the elastic wave are also affected by SCR and seabed soil interaction effects. The temporary local dynamic buckling vanishes with the recovery of tension on SCR with the upheaval motion of surface floater. Unlike larger-scale, an-order-of-magnitude longer period global buckling driven by heat and pressure variations in subsea pipelines, the sub-critical local dynamic buckling of SCR is motion-driven and short cycled, which, however, can lead to permanent structural damage when the resulting stress is greatly amplified beyond the elastic limit. The phenomenon is extensively investigated in this paper by using the vessel-mooring-riser coupled dynamic analysis program. It is found that the moment of large downward heave motion at the farthest-horizontal-offset position is the most dangerous for the local dynamic buckling.

Dynamic response of functionally gradient austenitic-ferritic steel composite panels under thermo-mechanical loadings

  • Isavand, S.;Bodaghi, M.;Shakeri, M.;Mohandesi, J. Aghazadeh
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.1-28
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, the dynamic response of functionally gradient steel (FGS) composite cylindrical panels in steady-state thermal environments subjected to impulsive loads is investigated for the first time. FGSs composed of graded ferritic and austenitic regions together with bainite and martensite intermediate layers are analyzed. Thermo-mechanical material properties of FGS composites are predicted according to the microhardness profile of FGS composites and approximated with appropriate functions. Based on the three-dimensional theory of thermo-elasticity, the governing equations of motionare derived in spatial and time domains. These equations are solved using the hybrid Fourier series expansion-Galerkin finite element method-Newmark approach for simply supported boundary conditions. The present solution is then applied to the thermo-elastic dynamic analysis of cylindrical panels with three different arrangements of material compositions of FGSs including ${\alpha}{\beta}{\gamma}M{\gamma}$, ${\alpha}{\beta}{\gamma}{\beta}{\alpha}$ and ${\gamma}{\beta}{\alpha}{\beta}{\gamma}$ composites. Benchmark results on the displacement and stress time-histories of FGS cylindrical panels in thermal environments under various pulse loads are presented and discussed in detail. Due to the absence of similar results in the specialized literature, this paper is likely to fill a gap in the state of the art of this problem, and provide pertinent results that are instrumental in the design of FGS structures under time-dependent mechanical loadings.

Software Climate Change and its Disruptive Weather: A Potential Shift from "Software Engineering" to Vibrant/Dynamic Softology

  • Ghani, Imran;Jeong, Seung Ryul
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.8
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    • pp.3925-3942
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    • 2016
  • Like natural climate change on the planet earth, the climate in software development environments is also changing (fast). Like the natural weather, the software environment is also disruptive. As the climate experts alert and suggest taking necessary measures to overcome certain challenges to make this earth a safer and comfortable living place, likewise this article also alerts the relevant stakeholders of software craftsmanship about the dynamic challenges that traditional Software Engineering (SE) with purely "Engineering mind-set" is not capable to respond. Hence, some new thoughts to overcome such challenges are shared. Fundamentally, based on the historical evidences, this article presents the authors' observation about continuous shift from traditional "Engineering-based" software development approaches to disruptive approaches - "Vibrant Softology". The authors see the cause of this shift as disruptive transformational force, which is so powerful that it is uncontrollably diminishing the "Engineering-based" approach from software development environments. The authors align it with climate change analogy. Based on this analogy, the authors feel the need to theoretically re-coin the notion of SE to some new term; perhaps Vibrant/Dynamic Softology (VS or DS). Hence, the authors suggest "a new (disruptive and dynamic) way of thinking is required to develop software". It is worth mentioning that the purpose of article and this new theory is not to disparage the notion of software engineering altogether, rather the aim is to highlight the importance of transformation from SE to its next level (perhaps VS/DS) due to the emerging needs in the software craftsmanship environment.

An Intelligent Video Streaming Mechanism based on a Deep Q-Network for QoE Enhancement (QoE 향상을 위한 Deep Q-Network 기반의 지능형 비디오 스트리밍 메커니즘)

  • Kim, ISeul;Hong, Seongjun;Jung, Sungwook;Lim, Kyungshik
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.188-198
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    • 2018
  • With recent development of high-speed wide-area wireless networks and wide spread of highperformance wireless devices, the demand on seamless video streaming services in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network environments is ever increasing. To meet the demand and provide enhanced Quality of Experience (QoE) with mobile users, the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) has been actively studied to achieve QoE enhanced video streaming service in dynamic network environments. However, the existing DASH algorithm to select the quality of requesting video segments is based on a procedural algorithm so that it reveals a limitation to adapt its performance to dynamic network situations. To overcome this limitation this paper proposes a novel quality selection mechanism based on a Deep Q-Network (DQN) model, the DQN-based DASH ABR($DQN_{ABR}$) mechanism. The $DQN_{ABR}$ mechanism replaces the existing DASH ABR algorithm with an intelligent deep learning model which optimizes service quality to mobile users through reinforcement learning. Compared to the existing approaches, the experimental analysis shows that the proposed solution outperforms in terms of adapting to dynamic wireless network situations and improving QoE experience of end users.

A Migration Method of Virtual Machines based Dynamic Threshold in Virtualization Environments (가상화 환경에서 동적 임계치 기반 가상 머신 이주 기법)

  • Choi, Hogun;Park, JiSu;Shon, Jin Gon
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2015
  • In an virtualization environment, several virtual machines use physical resources together. If a specific virtual machine uses to much of the computing resources, other machines may not be working properly. There are various method to solve this problem. Most representative study is to migrate a specified virtual machines to a different server, a target server. In this study, server load can be transferred to a target server by the remigrate of the load imposed on virtual machine. It is still problematic that virtual machine has to remigrate to a different server. This thesis has proposed the algorithm determining the remigration targets by applying dynamic thresholds to solve those problems. The migration algorithm applies dynamic thresholds according to the following criteria. Firstly, the usage of CPU, network and memory; secondly, decide the set of artificial machine and the target server based on the resources surpassed thresholds; thirdly, determine artificial machines based on the resource usage in the target server.

Design and implementation of a Dynamic Adaptive Streaming System over HTTP (HTTP상에서 동적 적응적 스트리밍 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Ban, Tae-Hak;Jung, Sang-Ho;Yu, So-Ra;Kim, Ho-Gyom;Jung, Hoe-Kyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.666-668
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    • 2011
  • Last QoS / QoE technology as part of the HTTP-based adaptive streaming technology has attracted attention. In this paper, HTTP-based adaptive streaming technology Find out about the dynamic. It is based on a dynamic adaptive streaming system over HTTP was designed and implemented. The system converts by the bit rate of MPEG2-TS files, Segment Split, MPD (Media Presentation Description) between servers and clients with the creation of a dynamic and adaptive analysis of network environments over MPD File consists bitrate's player. This diverse network environments, continuous and smooth playback of video will be used in various multimedia fields.

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A Study on the Multibody Dynamics Simulation-based Dynamic Safety Analysis of Machinery for Installation and Operation of USBL in Unmanned Vessel (무인선 USBL의 설치 및 운용을 위한 기계시스템의 다물체 동역학 시뮬레이션 기반 동적 안전성 검토에 관한 연구)

  • Jaewon Oh;Hyung-Woo Kim;Jong-Su Choi;Bong-Huan Jun;Seong-Soon Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.27 no.4_2
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    • pp.943-951
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    • 2024
  • This paper considers the simulation-based installation and operation safety analysis of installation and operation machinery of USBL as underwater equipment in operation environments. The simulation model of this mechanical system was developed using flexible multibody dynamics simulation technology. Operation and environmental conditions were applied using dynamic forces model considering ocean environments. The developed simulation model was used to evaluate operation safety through eigenvalue analysis, dynamic forces analysis, and structural analysis. As the analysis results, the operation safety was very low in extreme operation condition due to increase of dynamic loads by VIV effect. It was not a problem because safety factor had more than 2.0 in this case. However, the operation safety should be further strengthened because the USBL and LARS was installed and utilized in unmanned vessel with automatic controls. In order to improve safety by avoiding VIV frequency, we redesigned the USBL pole.