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Implementation of Position Awareness System Using One-Pass Tag (원패스 태그를 이용한 위치인식 시스템 구현)

  • Sohn, Jong-Hoon;Hwang, Gi-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2012.10a
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    • pp.301-303
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    • 2012
  • In this Paper, we are implemented position awareness system based on one-pass tag. This system are combined ZigBee and RFID technology. We developed the solution to detect of user's position using position awareness receiver and repeater. This location recognition includes parked car location tracking, coming in and out car, automation of immigration control, enhanced security through emergency call, and automatic invocation elevator control and etc.

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Smoking Trajectories among Koreans in Seoul and California: Exemplifying a Common Error in Age Parameterization

  • Allem, Jon-Patrick;Ayers, John W.;Unger, Jennifer B.;Irvin, Veronica L.;Hofstetter, C. Richard;Hovell, Melbourne F.
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.1851-1856
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    • 2012
  • Immigration to a nation with a stronger anti-smoking environment has been hypothesized to make smoking less common. However, little is known about how environments influence risk of smoking across the lifecourse. Research suggested a linear decline in smoking over the lifecourse but these associations, in fact, might not be linear. This study assessed the possible nonlinear associations between age and smoking and examined how these associations differed by environment through comparing Koreans in Seoul, South Korea and Korean Americans in California, United States. Data were drawn from population based telephone surveys of Korean adults in Seoul (N=500) and California (N=2,830) from 2001-2002. Locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (lowess) was used to approximate the association between age and smoking with multivariable spline logistic regressions, including adjustment for confounds used to draw population inferences. Smoking differed across the lifecourse between Korean and Korean American men. The association between age and smoking peaked around 35 years among Korean and Korean American men. From 18 to 35 the probability of smoking was 57% higher (95%CI, 40 to 71) among Korean men versus 8% (95%CI, 3 to 19) higher among Korean American men. A similar difference in age after 35, from 40 to 57 years of age, was associated with a 2% (95%CI, 0 to 10) and 20% (95%CI, 16 to 25) lower probability of smoking among Korean and Korean American men. A nonlinear pattern was also observed among Korean American women. Social role transitions provide plausible explanations for the decline in smoking after 35. Investigators should be mindful of nonlinearities in age when attempting to understand tobacco use.

Comparative Study on Major Nations's Related Legislation for Counter-terrorism (테러대응 관련 법제의 국가별 비교 연구)

  • Kwon, Jeong-Hoon
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.343-352
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    • 2010
  • As a result of comparing and analyzing the related legislation of each nation, more superior legislative systems should be made to cope with a number of terrors effectively. And also it is required to devise some concrete regulations such as the following in superior legislative systems. First, because it is hard to collect information on terrorism and watch over suspects according to Communication Privacy Protection Law. More in-depth discussion into the issue of surveillance is needed for the protection of lives and property, although public concerns of privacy are a valid point of contention. Second, it is necessary to take complementary measures on immigration as surveillance, since the current Immigration Control Law has restrictions in many ways to hinder efforts to root out terrorists. Third, under the current law on financial activities, it is impossible to block influx of terror financing. Therefore it is necessary to come up with ways of making the punishment procedures. Fourth, considering that convicted terrorists get punished under the standard procedures and precedents, it is required to clearly differentiate between what the terror acts are and what terrorist groups are. Fifth, it is necessary to make use of the private security system to enhance the security system of national facilities.

Intelligent Immigration Control System by Using Passport Recognition and Face Verification (여권 인식과 얼굴 인증을 이용한 지능형 출입국 관리 시스템)

  • 주영호;김도현;김광백
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.400-406
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    • 2004
  • 본 논문에서는 출입국자 관리의 효율성과 체계적인 출입국 관리를 위하여 여권 코드를 자동으로 인식하고 위조 여권을 판별할 수 있는 지능형 여권 인식 및 얼굴 인증 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 지능형 여권 인식 시스템은 여권 영상에서 경계선 검출 및 수평 최소값 필터 등을 적용하여 코드의 문자열 영역을 추출하고 기울어진 각도를 보정하였다. 검출된 코드 문자열의 인식을 위해 새로운 ART 알고리즘을 제안하여 적용하였고 휴리스틱 방법을 이용하여 인식 결과를 보정한 후 이 인식 결과를 바탕으로 여권 소지자의 사진 및 관련 정보를 여권 데이터베이스에서 추출하였다. 여권에서 추출된 출입국자의 사진 및 얼굴과 데이터베이스에 저장된 사진 및 얼굴과의 유사도 측정을 통하여 여권 사진의 위조 여부를 판단하였다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 여권 코드의 자동인식과, DB에 저장된 사진 정보를 바탕으로 얼굴 사진 영역의 인중을 통하여 위조 여권을 판별할 수 있는 지능형 출입국 관리 시스템을 제안하였다.

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Development and Testing of a Health Education Program for Immigrant Women Married to Koreans (여성결혼이민자를 위한 건강교육프로그램 개발 및 효과검증)

  • Ahn, Yang-Heui
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.200-210
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: To assess the effectiveness of an 8-session health education program to promote the health of married immigrant women. Methods: A quasi-experimental research design was employed. The subjects included 36 female marriage immigrant women (17 in the experimental group and 19 in the control group) who agreed to participate in this study. The intervention involved 8 sessions with a partnership strategy and was led by Public Health Nurses and the researcher. Our analysis included descriptive statistics, Fisher's exact test, t-test, and Pearson correlation coefficients. Results: The results revealed significant mean differences in terms of self-efficacy between the two groups. The mean of their self-efficacy was higher in the experimental group than in the control group, whereas there no mean differences were detected between the two groups in terms of health knowledge and self-esteem. Additionally, the knowledge of the immigrant women was correlated with their self-efficacy. Conclusion: The 8-session health education program was found to have an effect on self-efficacy, even with the limitations to methodological rigors posed by the subject-specific conditions. In the future, health education materials written in the native language of such women will need to be develop. Additionally, repeated studies will be required that involve randomized controlled trials characterized by better methodological strength and strategies to enhance participants’ interests and motives.

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The Comparative Law Research On The Mandatory Control About Illegal Foreign Workers in China (중국의 불법체류 외국인근로자에 대한 법적 규제에 관한 비교법적 연구)

  • Noh, Jae-Chul
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.9
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    • pp.236-246
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    • 2014
  • Most countries have been promoted the legislative policy for the legal employment, causing a social conflicts by illegal immigrants in any countries. Despite the efforts to alleviate the illegal aliens, there are not nearly enough successful cases, and encounter a social problem about illegal stay worker. China is no exception. At present, the issue of China's foreign illegal employment is expected to be a social problem in the present and the future. However, the legislative policy against immigration control law and illegal foreign employment in China is very neglectful. There is a lack of adjusting rule of law on illegal foreign workers in China, and the remedy is also insufficient. It is necessary to secure a legal right for the protection of the Rights of illegal foreign workers based on the international norms. For this purpose, the illegal foreign workers related law should be enacted, and based on this, administration should be strengthened. The trend of major countries of illegal aliens is centered around an employer hiring strictly regulated. There is a need to have a strengthen regulation on the employer rather than the foreign workers in China. To this end, employer who hire illegal foreign workers should be required to receive considerable disadvantages such as penalties and fines, prison sentences, as well as various kinds of burdens and repatriation costs. It is necessary to run the voluntary repatriation(Freiwillige $R\ddot{u}ckehr$) program of illegal immigrants, and there is a need to take action for illegal immigrants who voluntary return home within a certain period are exempt from penalty. In conclusion, China must push ahead with a direction of positive policy in related ministries rather than sit on its hands on the wrong choice or a confusion of an employer and foreign workers with a policy on illegal foreign residents in limbo.

Recognition of the Passport by Using Fuzzy Binarization and Enhanced Fuzzy Neural Networks

  • Kim, Kwang-Baek
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 2003.09a
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    • pp.603-607
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    • 2003
  • The judgment of forged passports plays an important role in the immigration control system, for which the automatic and accurate processing is required because of the rapid increase of travelers. So, as the preprocessing phase for the judgment of forged passports, this paper proposed the novel method for the recognition of passport based on the fuzzy binarization and the fuzzy RBF neural network newly proposed. first, for the extraction of individual codes being recognized, the paper extracts code sequence blocks including individual codes by applying the Sobel masking, the horizontal smearing and the contour tracking algorithm in turn to the passport image, binarizes the extracted blocks by using the fuzzy binarization based on the membership function of trapezoid type, and, as the last step, recovers and extracts individual codes from the binarized areas by applying the CDM masking and the vertical smearing. Next, the paper proposed the enhanced fuzzy RBF neural network that adapts the enhanced fuzzy ART network to the middle layer and applied to the recognition of individual codes. The results of the experiment for performance evaluation on the real passport images showed that the proposed method in the paper has the improved performance in the recognition of passport.

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Passport Recognition using Fuzzy Binarization and Enhanced Fuzzy RBF Network

  • Kim, Kwang-Baek
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.222-227
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    • 2004
  • Today, an automatic and accurate processing using computer is essential because of the rapid increase of travelers. The determination of forged passports plays an important role in the immigration control system. Hence, as the preprocessing phase for the determination of forged passports, this paper proposes a novel method for the recognition of passports based on the fuzzy binarization and the fuzzy RBF network. First, for the extraction of individual codes for recognizing, this paper targets code sequence blocks including individual codes by applying Sobel masking, horizontal smearing and a contour tracking algorithm on the passport image. Then the proposed method binarizes the extracted blocks using fuzzy binarization based on the trapezoid type membership function. Then, as the last step, individual codes are recovered and extracted from the binarized areas by applying CDM masking and vertical smearing. This paper also proposes an enhanced fuzzy RBF network that adapts the enhanced fuzzy ART network for the middle layer. This network is applied to the recognition of individual codes. The results of the experiments for performance evaluation on the real passport images showed that the proposed method has the better performance compared with other approaches.

A Study on Smart Tourism Based on Face Recognition Using Smartphone

  • Ryu, Ki-Hwan;Lee, Myoung-Su
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2016
  • This study is a smart tourism research based on face recognition applied system that manages individual information of foreign tourists to smartphone. It is a way to authenticate by using face recognition, which is biometric information, as a technology applied to identification inquiry, immigration control, etc. and it is designed so that tourism companies can provide customized service to customers by applying algorism to smartphone. The smart tourism system based on face recognition is a system that prepares the reception service by sending the information to smartphone of tourist service company guide in real time after taking faces of foreign tourists who enter Korea for the first time with glasses attached to the camera. The smart tourism based on face recognition is personal information recognition technology, speech recognition technology, sensing technology, artificial intelligence personal information recognition technology, etc. Especially, artificial intelligence personal information recognition technology is a system that enables the tourism service company to implement the self-promotion function to commemorate the visit of foreign tourists and that enables tourists to participate in events and experience them directly. Since the application of smart tourism based on face recognition can utilize unique facial data and image features, it can be beneficially utilized for service companies that require accurate user authentication and service companies that prioritize security. However, in terms of sharing information by government organizations and private companies, preemptive measures such as the introduction of security systems should be taken.

e-Passport Integrated Authentication Mechanisms with Improved Efficiency (효율성이 강화된 전자여권 통합 인증 메커니즘)

  • Lee, Dong-Bum;Go, Woong;Kwak, Jin
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.53-63
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    • 2009
  • e-Passport system is new type of emigration and immigration control system and it is a research to introduce the e-Passport Authentication Protocol with Improved Efficiency is lively proceeded over the entire world. The e-Passport's chip has a biometric information and personal identification information, Radio Frequency Identification(RFID) technology is used for communication with the Inspection System(IS). However, the feature of the RFID system may bring about various security threats such as eavesdropping, data forgeries, data alternation, cloning, biometric data-leakage. Therefore, in this paper, we analyse the e-Passport system's authentication protocol to protect vulnerability and proposed e-Passport system's authentication protocol reduce computation. Also, we compared their efficiency.

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