• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.1
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• pp.142-149
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• 2016

This paper proposes a method to detect LP(License Plate) of vehicles in indoor and outdoor parking lots. In restricted environment, there are many conventional methods for detecting LP. But, it is difficult to detect LP in natural and complex scenes with background clutters because several patterns similar with text or LP always exist in complicated backgrounds. To verify the performance of LP text detection in natural images, we apply MB-LGP feature by combining with ensemble machine learning algorithm in purpose of selecting optimal features of small number in huge pool. The feature selection is performed by adaptive boosting algorithm that shows great performance in minimum false positive detection ratio and in computing time when combined with cascade approach. MSER is used to provide initial text regions of vehicle LP. Throughout the experiment using real images, the proposed method functions robustly extracting LP in natural scene as well as the controlled environment.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.27 no.12
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• pp.1202-1210
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 효과적인 앙상블 머신의 구축을 위한 새로운 방안을 제시한다. 효과적인 앙상블의 구축을 위해서는 앙상블 멤버들간의 상관관계가 아주 낮아야 하며 또한 각 앙상블 멤버들은 전체 문제를 어느 정도는 정확하게 학습하면서도 서로들간의 불일치 하는 부분이 존재해야 한다는 것이 여러 논문들에 발표되었다. 본 논문에서는 주어진 문제의 다양한 면을 학습한 다수의 앙상블 후보 네트웍을 생성하기 위하여 건설적 학습 알고리즘과 능동 학습 알고리즘을 결합한 형태의 신경망 학습 알고리즘을 이용한다. 이 신경망의 학습은 최소 은닉 노드에서 최대 은닉노드까지 점진적으로 은닉노드를 늘려나감과 동시에 후보 데이타 집합에서 학습에 사용할 훈련 데이타를 점진적으로 선택해 나가면서 이루어진다. 은닉 노드의 증가시점에서 앙상블의 후부 네트웍이 생성된다. 이러한 한 차례의 학습 진행을 한 chain이라 정의한다. 다수의 chain을 통하여 다양한 형태의 네트웍 크기와 다양한 형태의 데이타 분포를 학습한 후보 내트웍들이 생성된다. 이렇게 생성된 후보 네트웍들은 확률적 비례 선택법에 의해 선택된 후 generalized ensemble method (GEM)에 의해 결합되어 최종적인 앙상블 성능을 보여준다. 제안된 알고리즘은 한개의 인공 데이타와 한 개의 실세계 데이타에 적용되었다. 실험을 통하여 제안된 알고리즘에 의해 구성된 앙상블의 최대 일반화 성능은 다른 알고리즘에 의한 그것보다 우수함을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.341-346
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• 2011

A vacant technology forecasting is an important issue in management of technology. The forecast of vacant technology leads to the growth of nation and company. So, we need the results of technology developments until now to predict the vacant technology. Patent is an objective thing of the results in research and development of technology. We study a predictive method for forecasting the vacant technology quantitatively using patent data in this paper. We propose an ensemble model that is to vote some clustering criteria because we can't guarantee a model is optimal. Therefore, an objective and accurate forecasting model of vacant technology is researched in our paper. This model combines statistical analysis methods with machine learning algorithms. To verify our performance evaluation objectively, we make experiments using patent documents of diverse technology fields.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.109-115
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• 2021

The number of freshmen at universities is decreasing due to the recent decline in the school-age population, and the survival of many universities is threatened. To overcome this situation, universities are seeking ways to use big data within the school to improve the quality of education. A study on the prediction of dropout students is a representative case of using big data in universities. The dropout prediction can prepare a systematic management plan by identifying students who will drop out of school due to reasons such as dropout or expulsion. In the case of actual on-campus data, a large number of missing values are included because it is collected and managed by various departments. For this reason, it is necessary to construct a model by effectively reflecting the missing values. In this study, we propose a university student dropout prediction model based on eXtreme Gradient Boost that can be applied to data with many missing values and shows high performance. In order to examine the practical applicability of the proposed model, an experiment was performed using data from C University in Chungbuk. As a result of the experiment, the prediction performance of the proposed model was found to be excellent. The management strategy of dropout students can be established through the prediction results of the model proposed in this paper.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.697-726
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• 2023

Brittleness as an important property of rock plays a crucial role both in the failure process of intact rock and rock mass response to excavation in engineering geological and geotechnical projects. Generally, rock brittleness indices are calculated from the mechanical properties of rocks such as uniaxial compressive strength, tensile strength and modulus of elasticity. These properties are generally determined from complicated, expensive and time-consuming tests in laboratory. For this reason, in the present research, an attempt has been made to predict the rock brittleness indices from simple, inexpensive, and quick laboratory test results namely dry unit weight, porosity, slake-durability index, P-wave velocity, Schmidt rebound hardness, and point load strength index using multiple linear regression, exponential regression, support vector machine (SVM) with various kernels, generating fuzzy inference system, and regression tree ensemble (RTE) with boosting framework. So, this could be considered as an innovation for the present research. For this purpose, the number of 39 rock samples including five igneous, twenty-six sedimentary, and eight metamorphic were collected from different regions of Iran. Mineralogical, physical and mechanical properties as well as five well known rock brittleness indices (i.e., B₁, B₂, B₃, B₄, and B₅) were measured for the selected rock samples before application of the above-mentioned machine learning techniques. The performance of the developed models was evaluated based on several statistical metrics such as mean square error, relative absolute error, root relative absolute error, determination coefficients, variance account for, mean absolute percentage error and standard deviation of the error. The comparison of the obtained results revealed that among the studied methods, SVM is the most suitable one for predicting B₁, B₂ and B₅, while RTE predicts B₃ and B₄ better than other methods.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.55-75
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• 2024

The present study introduces an optimum performance soft computing model for predicting the compressive strength of high-performance concrete (HPC) by comparing models based on conventional (kernel-based, covariance function-based, and tree-based), advanced machine (least square support vector machine-LSSVM and minimax probability machine regressor-MPMR), and deep (artificial neural network-ANN) learning approaches using a common database for the first time. A compressive strength database, having results of 1030 concrete samples, has been compiled from the literature and preprocessed. For the purpose of training, testing, and validation of soft computing models, 803, 101, and 101 data points have been selected arbitrarily from preprocessed data points, i.e., 1005. Thirteen performance metrics, including three new metrics, i.e., a20-index, index of agreement, and index of scatter, have been implemented for each model. The performance comparison reveals that the SVM (kernel-based), ET (tree-based), MPMR (advanced), and ANN (deep) models have achieved higher performance in predicting the compressive strength of HPC. From the overall analysis of performance, accuracy, Taylor plot, accuracy metric, regression error characteristics curve, Anderson-Darling, Wilcoxon, Uncertainty, and reliability, it has been observed that model CS4 based on the ensemble tree has been recognized as an optimum performance model with higher performance, i.e., a correlation coefficient of 0.9352, root mean square error of 5.76 MPa, and mean absolute error of 4.1069 MPa. The present study also reveals that multicollinearity affects the prediction accuracy of Gaussian process regression, decision tree, multilinear regression, and adaptive boosting regressor models, novel research in compressive strength prediction of HPC. The cosine sensitivity analysis reveals that the prediction of compressive strength of HPC is highly affected by cement content, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate, and water content.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.139-159
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• 2022

As interest in health functional foods has increased since COVID-19, the importance of imported food safety inspections is growing. However, in contrast to the annual increase in imports of health functional foods, the budget and manpower required for inspections for import and export are reaching their limit. Hence, the purpose of this study is to propose a machine learning model that efficiently detects unsuitable food suitable for the characteristics of data possessed by government offices on imported food. First, the components of food import/export inspections data that affect the judgment of nonconformity were examined and derived variables were newly created. Second, in order to select features for the machine learning, class imbalance and nonlinearity were considered when performing exploratory analysis on imported food-related data. Third, we try to compare the performance and interpretability of each model by applying various machine learning techniques. In particular, the ensemble model was the best, and it was confirmed that the derived variables and models proposed in this study can be helpful to the system used in import/export inspections.

• The Journal of Bigdata
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.53-67
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• 2020

This study employees a supervised learning prediction model to detect nonconformity in advance of processed food manufacturing and processing businesses. The study was conducted according to the standard procedure of machine learning, such as definition of objective function, data preprocessing and feature engineering and model selection and evaluation. The dependent variable was set as the number of supervised inspection detections over the past five years from 2014 to 2018, and the objective function was to maximize the probability of detecting the nonconforming companies. The data was preprocessed by reflecting not only basic attributes such as revenues, operating duration, number of employees, but also the inspections track records and extraneous climate data. After applying the feature variable extraction method, the machine learning algorithm was applied to the data by deriving the company's risk, item risk, environmental risk, and past violation history as feature variables that affect the determination of nonconformity. The f1-score of the decision tree, one of ensemble models, was much higher than those of other models. Based on the results of this study, it is expected that the official food control for food safety management will be enhanced and geared into the data-evidence based management as well as scientific administrative system.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.74-99
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• 2022

Surface ozone is produced by photochemical reactions of nitrogen oxides(NOx) and volatile organic compounds(VOCs) emitted from vehicles and industrial sites, adversely affecting vegetation and the human body. In South Korea, ozone is monitored in real-time at stations(i.e., point measurements), but it is difficult to monitor and analyze its continuous spatial distribution. In this study, surface ozone concentrations were interpolated to have a spatial resolution of 1.5km every hour using the stacking ensemble technique, followed by a 5-fold cross-validation. Base models for the stacking ensemble were cokriging, multi-linear regression(MLR), random forest(RF), and support vector regression(SVR), while MLR was used as the meta model, having all base model results as additional input variables. The results showed that the stacking ensemble model yielded the better performance than the individual base models, resulting in an averaged R of 0.76 and RMSE of 0.0065ppm during the study period of 2020. The surface ozone concentration distribution generated by the stacking ensemble model had a wider range with a spatial pattern similar with terrain and urbanization variables, compared to those by the base models. Not only should the proposed model be capable of producing the hourly spatial distribution of ozone, but it should also be highly applicable for calculating the daily maximum 8-hour ozone concentrations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.141-143
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 목조 문화재의 변위량을 감지할 수 있는 앙상블 딥러닝 모델 모델을 제안한다. 우선 총 2개의 서로 다른 사전 학습된 합성 곱 신경망을 사용하여 입력 영상에 대한 심층 특징들을 추출한다. 그 이후 2개의 서로 다른 심층 특징들을 결합하여 하나의 특징 벡터를 생성한다. 그 이후 합쳐진 특징 벡터는 완전 연결 계층의 입력 값으로 들어와서 최종적으로 변위의 심각 단계에 대한 예측을 수행하게 된다. 데이터 셋으로는 충주시 근처의 문화재에 방문해서 수집한 목조 문화재 이미지를 가지고 정상 및 비정상으로 구분한 데이터 셋을 사용하였다. 실험 결과 앙상블 딥러닝 기법을 사용한 모델이 앙상블 기법을 사용하지 않는 모델보다 더 좋은 성능을 나타냄을 확인하였다. 이러한 결과로부터 우리가 제안한 방법이 목재 문화재의 변위량 예측에 있어서 매우 적합함을 보여준다.