• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.601-604
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• 1999

We propose a new hierarchical motion estimator architecture that supports the advanced prediction mode of recent low bit-rate video coders such as H.263 and MPEG-4. In the proposed VLSI architecture, a basic searching unit (BSU) is commonly utilized for all hierarchical levels to make a systematic and small sized motion estimator. Since the memory bank of the proposed architecture provides scheduled data flow for calculating 8$\times$8 block-based sum of absolute difference (SAD), both a macroblock-based motion vector (MV) and four block-based MVs are simultaneously obtained for each macroblock in the advanced prediction mode. The proposed motion estimator gives similar coding performance compared with full search block matching algorithm (FSBMA) while achieving small size and satisfying the advanced prediction mode.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.21-24
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• 2002

This paper presents a new method for the motion detection of vehicles using hierarchical motion estimation and parallel processing. It captures the road image by using a CMOS sensor. It divides the captured image into small blocks and detects the motion of each block by using a block-matching method which is based on a hierarchical motion estimation and parallel processing for the real-time processing. The parallelism is achieved by using the pipeline and the data flow technique. The proposed method has been implemented with an embedded system. Experimental results show that the proposed method detects the motion of vehicles in real-time.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.555-567
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• 2014

Biometric performance improvement is a challenging task. In this paper, a hierarchical strategy fusion based on multimodal biometric system is presented. This strategy relies on a combination of several biometric traits using a multi-level biometric fusion hierarchy. The multi-level biometric fusion includes a pre-classification fusion with optimal feature selection and a post-classification fusion that is based on the similarity of the maximum of matching scores. The proposed solution enhances biometric recognition performances based on suitable feature selection and reduction, such as principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA), as much as not all of the feature vectors components support the performance improvement degree.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.67-90
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• 2019

Accurate detection, tracking and analysis of human movement using robots and other visual surveillance systems is still a challenge. Efforts are on to make the system robust against constraints such as variation in shape, size, pose and occlusion. Traditional methods of detection used the sliding window approach which involved scanning of various sizes of windows across an image. This paper concentrates on employing a state-of-the-art, hierarchical graph based method for segmentation. It has two stages: part level segmentation for color-consistent segments and object level segmentation for category-consistent regions. The tracking phase is achieved by employing SIFT keypoint descriptor based technique in a combined matching and tracking scheme with validation phase. Localization of human region in each frame is performed by keypoints by casting votes for the center of the human detected region. As it is difficult to avoid incorrect keypoints, a consensus-based framework is used to detect voting behavior. The designed methodology is tested on the video sequences having 3 to 4 persons.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.1-26
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• 2020

Firms employing hierarchical loyalty programs (HLPs) periodically demote customers from higher to lower status level to divest from unprofitable customers and boost profitability. However, existing literature lacks objective evidence on how customer demotion affects demoted customers' future purchase behaviors and ultimately profitability for the firm. Moreover, customers in the HLP's higher position may respond to customer demotion differently from those in the HLP's lower position. Drawing upon emotions and equity theories, this study quantifies how the profits that customers contribute to the firm change after customer demotion, and compares demoted customers' behavioral reactions from top-tier with those from bottom-tier based on customers' actual behavior data from a major retail bank in South Korea. The findings show that withdrawing customer status actually deteriorates customer profitability, and customers with top-tier status decrease their profitability more dramatically than those with bottom-tier status after demotion. The results contribute to previous literature on customer demotion and relationship marketing, and provide specific guidelines into how firms should design and implement customer demotion in HLPs.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1996년도 Proceedings International Workshop on New Video Media Technology
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• pp.41-44
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• 1996

A new three step hierarchical search algorithm for motion estimation is proposed. The proposed algorithm exploits the motion correlation of spatially neighboring blocks and the motion continuity of temporally neighboring blocks to alleviate the local minimum problem in the first step of the three step hierarchical search algorithm (3SHS). Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves significant improvements in both estimation accuracy and performance reliability compared with the existing fast block matching algorithm including 3SHS, while maintaining almost the same computational complexity as 3SHS. The proposed scheme also possesses the regularity and simplicity of hardware-oriented features.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.201-209
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• 2017

본 논문은 계층적 Convolutional Nerual Network(CNN)을 이용한 스마트폰용 객체 인식 시스템이다. 전체적인 구성은 스마트폰과 서버를 연결하여 서버에서 컨볼루셔널 뉴럴 네트워크로 객체 인식을 하고 수집된 데이터를 매칭시켜 스마트폰으로 객체의 상세정보를 전달하는 방법이다. 또한 계층적 컨볼루셔널 뉴럴 네트워크와 단편적 컨볼루셔널 뉴럴 네트워크와 비교하였다. 계층적 컨볼루셔널 뉴럴 네트워크는 88%, 단편적 컨볼루셔널 뉴럴 네트워크는 73%의 정확도를 가지며 15%p의 성능 향상을 보였다. 이를 기반으로 스마트폰과 방송매체와 연동한 T-Commerce 시장 확장의 가능성을 보여준다. 아울러 방송영상을 시청하면서 Information Retrieval, AR/VR 서비스도 제공 가능하다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권1C호
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• pp.56-63
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 스테레오 정합을 위한 특징으로 웨이블릿의 이동성(shift ability)을 이용한 윈도우 웨이블릿 기반 스테레오 정합방법을 제안하였다. 기존의 정합방법에서 사용된 전 영상에 대한 웨이블릿 분해는 웨이블릿의 이동성 유지가 이루어지지 않아서 정합 정확도가 떨어진다. 그래서 웨이블릿의 이동성을 신뢰성 있는 정합정보로 사용하기 위해 윈도우로 전체 파형의 일부를 표본화하고 웨이블릿 분해를 수행하여 기준신호와 이동된 신호의 부대역 정보 사이의 상관도(cross-correlation)를 정합정보로 이용하였다. 대역별 상관도는 얻어진 4개의 부대역의 대역별 가중치가 고려되어 계산된다. 제안한 방법은 주파수 대역별 계층적인 정합과 양방향 정합과정을 통해 영상의 경계부분, 동일한 형태의 반복, 잡음(white noise)등이 포함된 영상에서의 오정합을 줄일 수 있었으며 특징정보가 부족한 부분에서의 정합도 개선할 수 있었다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1995년도 학술대회
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• pp.137-141
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• 1995

MASF is a kind of temporal filter proposed for noise reduction and temporal band limitation. MASF uses motion vectors to extract temporal information in spatial domain. Therefore, inaccurate motion information causes some distortions in MASF operation. Currently, bilinear interpolation after MBA(Block Matching Algorithm) is used for the motion estimation sheme of MASF. But, this method results in unreliable estimation when the object in image sequence has larger movement than the maximum displacement assumed in BMA or the input images are severely corrupted with noise. In order to solve this problem, we propose a hierarchical motion estimation algorithm for MASF. Experimental results show that the proposed method produces reliable output under large motion and noisy situations.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.11-23
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• 2011

Recently, Open APIs are getting attention with the advent of Web 2.0. Open APIs are used to combine services and generate new services by Mashup. However, the growing number of available Open APIs raises a challenging issue how to locate the desired APIs. We automatically build ontologies from WSDL, WADL, HTML, and their underlying semantics. The key ingredient of our method is a technique that clusters input/output parameters in the collection of API methods into semantically meaningful concepts, and captures the hierarchical relationships between the terms contained in a parameter. These semantic ontologies allow search engines to support a similarity search for Open APIs based on various protocols such as SOAP, REST, JavaScript, and XML-RPC, and significantly improve the quality of APIs matching by the clustering and hierarchical relationships mechanism.