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Spatial Relationship of Suburb, Road and River in respect to Forest Canopy Density Change Using GIS and RS

  • Pantal, Menaka;Kim, Kye-Hyun
    • 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.257-270
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    • 2005
  • Many studies states that improperly uprising of infrastructure may cause leading the forest degradation and canopy reduction in many tropical forest of Asian countries. Other studies revealed that habitat destruction and fragmentation, edge effects, exotic species invasions, pollution are provoked by roads. Similarly, environmental effects of road construction in forests are problematic. Similarly, many researches have been indicated that roads have a far greater impact on forests than simply allowing greater access for human use. Moreover, people using river as means of transportation hence illegal logging and felling cause canopy depletion in many countries. Therefore, it is important to comprehend the study about spatial relation of road, river and suburb followed by temporal change of forest canopy phenomena. This study also tried to examine the effect of road, river and suburb in forest canopy density change of Terai forest of Nepal from you 1988 to 2001. So, Landsat TM88, 92 and 001 and FCD (Forest Canopy Density) mapper were used to perform the spatial .elation of canopy density change. ILWIS (Integrated Land and Water Information System) which is GIS software and compatible with remote sensing data was used to execute analysis and visualize the results. Study found that influence of distance to suburb and river had statistically significance influenced in canopy change. Though road also influenced canopy density much but didn't show a statistical relation. It can be concluded from this research that understanding of spatial relation of factors respect with canopy change is quite complex phenomena unless detail analysis of surrounding environment. Hence, it is better to carry out comprehensive analysis with other additional factors such as biophysical, anthropogenic, social, and institutional factors for proper approach of their effect on canopy change.

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An Approximate Shortest Path Re-Computation Method for Digital Road Map Databases in Mobile Computing Environments (이동 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 전자 수치 지도 데이터베이스를 위한 근접 최단 경로 재 계산 방법)

  • 정성원;김재훈
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.187-189
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    • 2001
  • 이동 컴퓨팅(Mobile Computing)의 상업적인 응용분야로서, 지능형 교통정보시스템(ITS)에서의 첨단 여행자 정보시스템(ATIS)이 있다. ATIS에서 가장 중요한 이동 컴퓨팅 태스크는 현재 위치에서 목적지까지의 최단 경로를 계산하는 일이다. 본 논문에서는 최단 경로 재 계산 문제에 대해서 연구하였다. 이 문제는 전자 수치 지도(topological digital road map)상의 간선(edge) 비용이 동적인 교통 상태에 따라 빈번하게 갱신되고 있는 ATIS의 동적 경로 안내 시스템(URGS)에서 발생한다. 지금까지 제안된 방법들은 처음부터 최단 경로를 재계산하거나, 또는 단지 비용의 변화가 일어난 간건 상에 있는 양 끝 노드 사이에 대해서 최단 경로를 재계산할 뿐이다. 본 논문에서는 앞서 계산된 최단 경로에 대한 정보를 이용하는 효율적인 적응형 슬라이딩 윈도우 기반의 근접 최단 경로 재 계산 방법을 제안한다.

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Long Distance Vehicle License Plate Region Detection Using Low Resolution Feature of License Plate Region in Road View Images (로드뷰 영상에서 번호판 영역의 저해상도 특징을 이용한 원거리 자동차 번호판 영역 검출)

  • Oh, Myoung-Kwan;Park, Jong-Cheon
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.239-245
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    • 2017
  • For privacy protection, we propose a vehicle license plate region detection method in road view image served from portal site. Because vehicle license plate regions in road view images have different feature depending on distance, long distance vehicle license plate regions are not detected by feature of low resolution. Therefore, we suggest a method to detect short distance vehicle license plate regions by edge feature and long distance vehicle license plate regions using MSER feature. And then, we select candidate region of vehicle license plate region from detected region of each method, because the number of the vehicle license plate has a structural feature, we used it to detect the final vehicle license plate region. As the experiment result, we got a recall rate of 93%, precision rate of 75%, and F-Score rate of 80% in various road view images.

Relationship between Concrete Pavement Stresses under Multi-Axle Interior and Edge Loads (중앙부와 모서리부 다축 차량 하중에 의한 콘크리트 도로포장의 응력 상관관계)

  • Kim Seong-Min;Cho Byoung-Hooi;Ryu Sung-Woo
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.8 no.3 s.29
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    • pp.143-153
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    • 2006
  • The differences in the stress distribution and the critical stresses in concrete pavement systems were analyzed when the dual-wheel single-, tandem-, and tridem-axle loads were applied at the interior and the edge of the pavement. The effects of the concrete elastic modulus, slab thickness, foundation stiffness, and tire contact pressure were investigated. The stresses under the interior loads were calculated using the transformed field domain analysis and stresses under the edge loads were obtained using the finite element method. The critical stresses under the interior and the edge loads were compared with respect to various parameters and the equations to predict the ratio between the stresses under the edge and the interior loads were developed and verified. From this study, it was found that the trends of the changes in the critical concrete stresses under the interior and the edge loads were very similar and the critical stress locations under those loads were identical. The critical stress ratio, which was obtained by dividing the critical stress under the edge loads into that under the interior loads, decreased with increasing the number of axles. That ratio became larger as the concrete elastic modulus increased, the slab thickness increased, the foundation stiffness decreased, and the tire contact pressure increased.

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Edge-Based Tracking of an LED Traffic Light for a Road-to-Vehicle Visible Light Communication System

  • Premachandra, H. Chinthaka N.;Yendo, Tomohiro;Tehrani, Mehrdad Panahpour;Yamazato, Takaya;Fujii, Toshiaki;Tanimoto, Masayuki;Kimura, Yoshikatsu
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.475-487
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    • 2009
  • We propose a visible light road-to-vehicle communication system at intersection as one of ITS technique. In this system, the communication between vehicle and a LED traffic light is approached using LED traffic light as a transmitter, and on-vehicle high-speed camera as a receiver. The LEDs in the transmitter are emitted in 500Hz and those emitting LEDs are captured by a high-speed camera for making communication. Here, the luminance value of each LED in the transmitter should be found for consecutive frames to achieve effective communication. For this purpose, first the transmitter should be identified, then it should be tracked for consecutive frames while the vehicle is moving, by processing the images from the high-speed camera. In our previous work, the transmitter was identified by getting the subtraction of two consecutive frames. In this paper, we mainly introduce an algorithm to track the identified transmitter in consecutive frames. Experimental results using appropriate images showed the effectiveness of the proposal.

Vehicle License Plate Recognition System By Edge-based Segment Image Generation (에지기반 세그먼트 영상 생성에 의한 차량 번호판 인식 시스템)

  • Kim, Jin-Ho;Noh, Duck-Soo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2012
  • The research of vehicle license plate recognition has been widely studied for the smart city project. The license plate recognition can be hard due to the geometric distortion and the image quality degradation in case of capturing the driving car image at CCTV without trigger signal on the road. In this paper, the high performance vehicle license plate recognition system using edge-based segment image is introduced which is robust in the geometric distortion and the image quality degradation according to non-trigger signal. The experimental results of the proposed real time license plate recognition algorithm which is implemented at the CCTV on the road show that the plate detection rate was 97.5% and the overall character recognition rate of the detected plates was 99.3% in a day average 1,535 vehicles for a week operation.

EMG Power Spectrum Analysis of Wearing Roller Shoes on Muscle Fatigue in the Lower Extremity during Walking (롤러 슈즈 착용 후 보행시 근피로 상태에서 하지근의 근전도 Power Spectrum 분석)

  • Kim, Youn-Joung;Yoon, Chang-Jin;Chae, Won-Sik;Lee, Min-Hyung;Kim, Hun-Soo;Jung, Mi-Ra
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.239-245
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to compare the electromyography signal's power spectrum mean and median tendencies appearing in the lower extremity during walking while wearing roller shoes. 9 male subjects volunteered who have no experience riding inline-skate or roller-skate, and have no record of musculoskeletal disorder. Subjects walked on treadmill twice for an hour (Once a week, one trial with the roller on and the other without roller, Walking velocity = 1.39 m/s). Electromyography was measured every 15 minute (0, 15, 30, 45, 60 minutes). Surface electrode sticked muscle at rectus femoris(R.F.), vastus lateralis(V.L.), vastus medialis(V.M.), biceps femoris(B.F.), tibialis anterior(T.A.), gastrocnemius lateralis(G.L.), gastrocnemius medialis(G.M.). At Rectus femoris, Vastus Lateralis, Vastus medialis, and Biceps femoris showed no statistically significant decrease of median frequency or mean edge frequency as time passes. Also, between two treatments (wearing the roller shoes vs not wearing the roller shoes), no statistically significant difference. After 60 minutes, mean edge frequency showed statistically significant decrease at tibalis anterior and after 45 minutes, mean edge frequency showed statistically significant decrease compared to wearing roller shoes without the wheels at gastrocnemius lateralis. At gastrocnemius medialis after 30 minutes, median frequency showed statistically significant decrease, and showed statistically significant difference compared to the control group. Wearing the roller shoes with wheels for a long time resulted in statistically significant decrease of mean edge frequency and median frequency in lower extremity, especially in shank muscles. Increase of wearing time of roller shoes and walking on a bumpy road wearing roller shoes with wheels result fatigue and thus, danger of injury.

Shadow Extraction of Urban Area using Building Edge Buffer in Quickbird Image (건물 에지 버퍼를 이용한 Quickbird 영상의 도심지 그림자 추출)

  • Yeom, Jun-Ho;Chang, An-Jin;Kim, Yong-Il
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.163-171
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    • 2012
  • High resolution satellite images have been used for building and road system analysis, landscape analysis, and ecological assessment for several years. However, in high resolution satellite images, shadows are necessarily cast by manmade objects such as buildings and over-pass bridges. This paper develops the shadow extraction procedures in urban area including various land-use classes, and the extracted shadow areas are evaluated by a manually digitized shadow map. For the shadow extraction, the Canny edge operator and the dilation filter are applied to make building edge buffer area. Also, the object-based segmentation was performed using Gram-Schmitt fusion image, and spectral and spatial parameters are calculated from the segmentation results. Finally, we proposed appropriate parameters and extraction rules for the shadow extraction. The accuracy of the shadow extraction results from the various assessment indices is 80% to 90%.

Method for Road Vanishing Point Detection Using DNN and Hog Feature (DNN과 HoG Feature를 이용한 도로 소실점 검출 방법)

  • Yoon, Dae-Eun;Choi, Hyung-Il
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.125-131
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    • 2019
  • A vanishing point is a point on an image to which parallel lines projected from a real space gather. A vanishing point in a road space provides important spatial information. It is possible to improve the position of an extracted lane or generate a depth map image using a vanishing point in the road space. In this paper, we propose a method of detecting vanishing points on images taken from a vehicle's point of view using Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HoG). The proposed algorithm is divided into a HoG feature extraction step, in which the edge direction is extracted by dividing an image into blocks, a DNN learning step, and a test step. In the learning stage, learning is performed using 2,300 road images taken from a vehicle's point of views. In the test phase, the efficiency of the proposed algorithm using the Normalized Euclidean Distance (NormDist) method is measured.

Design of Highway Accident Detection and Alarm System Based on Internet of Things Guard Rail (IoT 가드레일 기반의 고속도로 사고감지 및 경보 시스템 설계)

  • Oh, Am-Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.23 no.12
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    • pp.1500-1505
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    • 2019
  • Currently, as part of the ICT Smart City, the company is building C-ITS(Cooperative-Intelligent Transport Systems) for solving urban traffic problems. In order to realize autonomous driving service with C-ITS, the role of advanced road infrastructure is important. In addition to the study of mid- to long-term C-ITS and autonomous driving services, it is necessary to present more realistic solutions for road traffic safety in the short term. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a highway accident detection alarm system that can detect and analyze traffic flow and risk information, which are essential information of C-ITS, based on IoT guard rail and provide immediate alarm and remote control. Intelligent IoT guard rail is expected to be used as an intelligent advanced road infrastructure that provides data at actual road sites that are required by C-ITS and self-driving services in the long term.