• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.684-689
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 수평$\cdot$수직 에지의 형태학적 정보를 이용한 차량 번호판 추출과 개선된 신경망을 이용한 차량 번호판 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 번호판 영역은 수평 수직에지의 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 추출하고 개별 문자는 히스토그램 방법과 위치 정보를 이용한 방법에 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 병합하여 추출한다. 개별 문자 인식은 ART-1 알고리즘을 지도 학습 방법과 결합한 개선된 신경망을 제안하여 차량 번호판 인식에 적용한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 확인하기 위하여 실제 차량 번호판들을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 수평$GF(2^m)$수직 에지의 형태학적 정보를 이용한 차량 번호판 추출 방법이 임계화를 이용한 차량 번호판 추출 방법, RGB와 HSI 컬러 정보를 각각 이용한 차량 번호판 추출 방법보다 추출룰이 개선되었으며, 인식 성능도 개선된 신경망의 학습 알고리즘이 기존의 학습 알고리즘들 보다 우수한 성능이 있음을 확인하였다.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2011

Objective: To explore potential relationships between sperm DNA integrity and both semen parameters and clinical outcomes. Methods: Semen analysis of 498 samples was performed according to the 2010 criteria of the World Health Organization. The sperm DNA fragmentation Index (DFI) of the semen samples was assessed using a neutral comet assay. Results: Sperm DFI showed a significant correlation with semen parameters, including the patient's age, sperm viability, motility, morphology, and number of leukocytes (p<0.05). The sperm DFI values for asthenozoospermic (15.2%), oligoteratozoospermic (18.3%), asthenoteratozoospermic (17.5%), and oligoasthenoteratozoospermic semen samples (21.3%) were significantly higher than that observed in normozoospermic semen samples (10.5%, p<0.05). A sperm DFI value of 14% was used as a threshold of sperm DFI in assessing whether DNA was highly damaged. In 114 IVF-ET cycles, the fertilization rate of the sperm DFI <14% group (70 cycles, 61.7%) was significantly higher than that observed for the ${\geq}14%$ group (44 cycles, 55.3%), but there was no difference in the other clinical outcomes between the two groups. In the ${\geq}14%$ group, the pregnancy rates of the ICSI cycles (40.0%) and half-ICSI (44.0%) were higher than conventional IVF cycles (30.7%), but the difference was not statistically significant. Conclusion: Along with the conventional semen analysis, the sperm DFI assessed using the comet assay was shown to improve the quality of the semen evaluation. To evaluate the precise effect of ICSI on pregnancy rates in the patients who demonstrate high sperm DFI values, further study is necessary.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.69-79
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• 2021

Objective: Poor ovarian response (POR) refers to a subnormal follicular response that leads to a decrease in the quality and quantity of the eggs retrieved after ovarian stimulation during assisted reproductive treatment (ART). The present study investigated the associations of multiple variants of the estrogen receptor 2 (ESR2) and follicle-stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR) genes with POR in infertile Jordanian women undergoing ART. Methods: Four polymorphisms, namely ESR2 rs1256049, ESR2 rs4986938, FSHR rs6165, and FSHR rs6166, were investigated in 60 infertile Jordanian women undergoing ART (the case group) and 60 age-matched fertile women (the control group), with a mean age of 33.60±6.34 years. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were detected by restriction fragment length polymorphism and then validated using Sanger sequencing. Results: The p-value of the difference between the case and control groups regarding FSHR rs6166 was very close to 0.05 (p=0.054). However, no significant differences were observed between the two groups in terms of the other three SNPs, namely ESR2 rs1256049, ESR2 rs4986938, and FSHR rs6165 (p=0.561, p=0.433, and p=0.696, respectively). Conclusion: The association between FSHR rs6166 and POR was not statistically meaningful in the present study, but the near-significant result of this experiment suggests that statistical significance might be found in a future study with a larger number of patients.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.723-730
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• 2024

본 연구는 자동 창작 영상에 관한 개념과 이해의 변화를 추적하기 위하여, 기존의 영상분야를 대표하는 사진과 영화의 창작 방식을 인공지능 기반의 영상 창작 방법과 '자동'이라는 측면에서 유비적으로 탐구하고, 새로운 자동영상창작에 관한 이해와 가능성을 논구 한다. 사진과 영화의 발명 시기에는, 회화를 비롯한 전통예술 장르와 비견하여, 이들에게 '자동 창작'이라는 영역을 설정한 바 있다. 최근 인공지능이 영상 제작에도 적용되면서 '자동 창작'에 관한 개념도 확장되어, 기존의 문학, 미술, 사진, 영화의 경계를 자유롭게 넘나드는 실험적 창작이 활발하다. 인공지능의 자동 창작은 머신 러닝과 딥 러닝과 같은 기술을 활용하여, 인공지능이 독립적으로 창작 과정을 수행하게 한다. 인공지능을 활용한 자동 창작은 효율성을 크게 향상시킬 수 있지만, 동시에 예술창작과정의 주관적인 판단의 문제에 직면하게 된다. 자동 창작으로 몰렸던 사진과 영화의 창작과정과 인공지능의 창작과정을 비교하면, 자동 창작 영상의 입면은 작가의 문제로 귀착될 수 있다. 그러나 다원적이 예술분야가 소통할 수 있는 기회로 작동된다면, 인공지능기반의 자동 창작 영상은 장르를 넘나드는 방법론이 될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.122-131
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• 2013

The MPI CyberMotion Simulator provides a unique motion platform, as it features an anthropomorphic robot with a large workspace, combined with an actuated cabin and a linear track for lateral movement. This paper introduces the simulator as a tool for studying human perception, and compares its characteristics to conventional Stewart platforms. Furthermore, an experimental evaluation is presented in which multimodal human control behavior is studied by identifying the visual and vestibular responses of participants in a roll-lateral helicopter hover task. The results show that the simulator motion allows participants to increase tracking performance by changing their control strategy, shifting from reliance on visual error perception to reliance on simulator motion cues. The MPI CyberMotion Simulator has proven to be a state-of-the-art motion simulator for psychophysical research to study humans with various experimental paradigms, ranging from passive perception experiments to active control tasks, such as driving a car or flying a helicopter.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.805-809
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• 2002

The support bearing requires high DN to raise specific energy efficiency for the state of the art rotating machine with high speed. Especially for the system has a big rotor(670 kgf) with high speed(about one million DNs) such as the pulsed generator, the selection of the bearing and lubrication method are very important. So the study for the critical speed of hollow rotor as well in accordance with high speed rotor and a full analysis are needed for rotor bearing system. This paper describes the analysis for rotor bearing system of pulsed generator compared with experimental data. The bearing and lubrication method are discussed as well with experimental data.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.99-114
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• 2008

This paper presents the theoretical simulation of the response of 1020 carbon steel tubes subjected to symmetric and unsymmetric cyclic bending with or without external pressure by using the endochronic theory. Experimental data of 1020 carbon steel tubes tested by Corona and Kyriakides (1991) were used for evaluating the theoretical simulation. Several cases were considered in this study, they were symmetric bending without external pressure, symmetric bending with external pressure, unsymmetric bending without external pressure, and unsymmetric bending with external pressure. The responses of the moment-curvature, ovalization-curvature and ovalization-number of cycles with or without external pressure were discussed. It has been shown that the theoretical simulations of the responses correlate well with the experimental data.

• International Journal of Korean Welding Society
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2001

For the horizontal fillet welding with one plate in a vertical position, there will be a higher tendency of weld metal falling down rather than for the butt-welding in flat position. Such phenomenon could bring about the overlap or deflection of weld pool, and consequently induce the poor mechanical strength of weldments. Therefore, a precise position control of welding torch in conjunction with the weld qualify plays an important role in welding robot applications. In the present study, an experimental method was proposed for deriving a mathematical model between the leg length and the welding conditions. Finally, an algorithm was proposed for weld seam tracking and improvement of the weld quality. The reliability of the proposed algorithm was evaluated through various experiments, which showed that the proposed algorithm can be very effective for tracking the weld line and simultaneously achieving the sound weld bead.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.373-388
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• 2005

Quasi-steady approaches have been often adopted to model wind forces on moving cylinders in cross-flow and to study instability conditions of rigid cylinders supported by visco-elastic devices. Recently, much attention has been devoted to the experimental study of inclined and/or yawed circular cylinders detecting dynamical phenomena such as galloping-like instability, but, at the present state-of-the-art, no mathematical model is able to recognize or predict satisfactorily this behaviour. The present paper presents a generalization of the quasi-steady approach for the definition of the flow-induced forces on yawed and inclined circular cylinders. The proposed model is able to replicate experimental behaviour and to predict the galloping instability observed during a series of recent wind-tunnel tests.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.16-39
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• 2017

This paper reviewed and summarized the experimental studies conducted during last three decades to evaluate the structural integrity and to establish the acceptance criteria for piping system of nuclear power plants (NPPs) under seismic loading condition. These experimental studies contain the results of large-scale piping system tests under excessive seismic loading as well as standard specimen tests, simplified piping specimen tests, and piping components tests under simplified dynamic and cyclic loading. These would be useful as a basis for establishing integrity assessment procedure and acceptance criteria for piping systems of NPPs under beyond design basis earthquake (BDBE) conditions, and also could be used in planing the scope and direction of further related researches.