• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.15-19
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• 2021

Image processing is one of the major techniques that are used for computer vision. Nowadays, researchers are using machine learning and deep learning for the aforementioned task. In recent years, digit recognition tasks, i.e., automatic meter recognition approach using electric or water meters, have been studied several times. However, two major issues arise when we talk about previous studies: first, the use of the deep learning technique, which includes a large number of parameters that increase the computational cost and consume more power; and second, recent studies are limited to the detection of digits and not storing or providing detected digits to a database or mobile applications. This paper proposes a system that can detect the digital number of meter readings using a lightweight deep neural network (DNN) for low power consumption and send those digits to an Android mobile application in real-time to store them and make life easy. The proposed lightweight DNN is computationally inexpensive and exhibits accuracy similar to those of conventional DNNs.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.778-789
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• 2021

Recently, various lightweight methods for using Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) models in mobile devices have emerged. Weight quantization, which lowers bit precision of weights, is a lightweight method that enables a model to be used through integer calculation in a mobile environment where GPU acceleration is unable. Weight quantization has already been used in various models as a lightweight method to reduce computational complexity and model size with a small loss of accuracy. Considering the size of memory and computing speed as well as the storage size of the device and the limited network environment, this paper proposes a method of compressing integer weights after quantization using a video codec as a method. To verify the performance of the proposed method, experiments were conducted on VGG16, Resnet50, and Resnet18 models trained with ImageNet and Places365 datasets. As a result, loss of accuracy less than 2% and high compression efficiency were achieved in various models. In addition, as a result of comparison with similar compression methods, it was verified that the compression efficiency was more than doubled.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.18-25
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• 2020

The unconfined compressive strength of lightweight treated soils strongly depends on mixing ratio. To characterize the relation between various LTS components and the unconfined compressive strength of LTS, extensive studies have been conducted, proposing normalized factor using regression models based on their experimental results. However, these results obtained from laboratory experiments do not expect consistent prediction accuracy due to complicated relation between materials and mix proportions. In this study, deep neural network model(Deep-LTS), which was based on experimental test results performed on various mixing conditions, was applied to predict the unconfined compressive strength. It was found that the unconfined compressive strength LTS at a given mixing ratio could be resonable estimated using proposed Deep-LTS.

• Transactions on Semiconductor Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.17-20
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• 2024

This paper presents a novel lightweight object detection model tailored for low-powered edge devices, addressing the limitations of traditional resource-intensive computer vision models. Our proposed detector, inspired by the Single Shot Detector (SSD), employs a compact yet robust network design. Crucially, it integrates an 'enhancer block' that significantly boosts its efficiency in detecting smaller objects. The model comprises two primary components: the Light_Block for efficient feature extraction using Depth-wise and Pointwise Convolution layers, and the Enhancer_Block for enhanced detection of tiny objects. Trained from scratch on the Udacity Annotated Dataset with image dimensions of 300x480, our model eschews the need for pre-trained classification weights. Weighing only 5.5MB with approximately 0.43M parameters, our detector achieved a mean average precision (mAP) of 27.7% and processed at 140 FPS, outperforming conventional models in both precision and efficiency. This research underscores the potential of lightweight designs in advancing object detection for edge devices without compromising accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• fall
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• pp.70-73
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• 2021

최근 영상 및 비디오 분야에 심층 신경망(DNN, Deep Neural Network)을 사용한 연구가 다양하게 진행됨에 따라 High Dynamic Range (HDR) 이미징 기술에서도 기존의 방법들 보다 우수한 성능을 보이는 심층 신경망 모델들이 등장하였다. 하지만, 심층 신경망을 사용한 방법은 큰 연산량과 많은 GPU 메모리를 사용한다는 문제점이 존재하며, 이는 심층 신경망 기반 기술들의 현실 적용 가능성에 제한이 되고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 제한된 연산량과 GPU 메모리 조건에서도 사용 가능한 다중 노출 HDR 경량화 심층 신경망을 제안한다. Kalantari Dataset에 대해 기존 HDR 모델들과의 성능 평가를 진행해 본 결과, PSNR-µ와 PSNR-l 수치에서 GPU 메모리 사용량 대비 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.776-788
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• 2020

In this paper, a vehicle type recognition system using deep learning and a license plate recognition system are proposed. In the existing system, the number plate area extraction through image processing and the character recognition method using DNN were used. These systems have the problem of declining recognition rates as the environment changes. Therefore, the proposed system used the one-stage object detection method YOLO v3, focusing on real-time detection and decreasing accuracy due to environmental changes, enabling real-time vehicle type and license plate character recognition with one RGB camera. Training data consists of actual data for vehicle type recognition and license plate area detection, and synthetic data for license plate character recognition. The accuracy of each module was 96.39% for detection of car model, 99.94% for detection of license plates, and 79.06% for recognition of license plates. In addition, accuracy was measured using YOLO v3 tiny, a lightweight network of YOLO v3.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.159-168
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• 2017

Smartphone malware has increased because Smartphone users has increased and smartphones are widely used in everyday life. Since 2012, Android has been the most mobile operating system. Owing to the open nature of Android, countless malware are in Android markets that seriously threaten Android security. Most of Android malware detection program does not detect malware to which bypass techniques apply and also does not detect unknown malware. In this paper, we propose lightweight method for detection of Android malware using static analysis and deep learning techniques. For experiments we crawl 7,000 apps from the Google Play Store and collect 6,120 malwares. The result show that proposed method can achieve 98.05% detection accuracy. Also, proposed method can detect about unknown malware families with good performance. On smartphones, the method requires 10 seconds for an analysis on average.