• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.346-357
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• 2017

The Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is particularly attractive for medium and high power applications such as High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) systems. In order to reach a high voltage, the number of cascaded submodules (SMs) is generally very large. Thus, in the applications with hundreds or even thousands of SMs such as MMC-HVDCs, the sorting algorithm of the conventional voltage balancing strategy is extremely slow. This complicates the controller design and increases the hardware cost tremendously. This paper presents a Two-Way Merge Sort (TWMS) strategy based on the prediction of the capacitor voltages under ideal conditions. It also proposes an innovative Insertion Sort Correction for the TWMS (ISC-TWMS) to solve issues in practical engineering under non-ideal conditions. The proposed sorting methods are combined with the features of the MMC-HVDC control strategy, which significantly accelerates the sorting process and reduces the implementation efforts. In comparison with the commonly used quicksort algorithm, it saves at least two-thirds of the sorting execution time in one arm with 100 SMs, and saves more with a higher number of SMs. A 501-level MMC-HVDC simulation model in PSCAD/EMTDC has been built to verify the validity of the proposed strategies. The fast speed and high efficiency of the algorithms are demonstrated by experiments with a DSP controller (TMS320F28335).

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권8호
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• pp.1053-1058
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• 2013

Because of computational burden and complex topology of substation, a transmission overload relief using circuit-breaker switching was very complex and difficult. However, a on-line algorithm for reducing the overloads in transmission lines has made progress due to the advance of IT technology. This paper describes the methodology for alleviating the overloads in transmission lines by circuit-breaker switching. First, the severe contingency lists and substations were selected from the results of contingency analysis. Then the switch combinations are determined using circuit-breakers of the selected substation. The topology changes are limited to equipment outage, bus split, island split, bus merge and island merge. Finally, the fast screening and full analysis methods are used to analyze the overload in transmission lines. To verify the performance of the proposed methodology, we performed a comprehensive test for both test system and large-scale power systems. The results of these tests showed that the proposed methodology can accurately alleviate the overloads in transmission lines from online data and can be applied to on-line applications.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2007

기존 화소 기반 영역분할 방법은 주변 화소와 비교를 통하여 영역 분할을 수행하기 때문에 처리 시간이 길고, 영역 분할이 부정확한 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 대용량 위성 영상을 효과적으로 영역 분할하기 위하여 영역 분할 및 합병 기법을 이용한 수정된 중심 연결 방법을 제안한다. 자신의 화소 값을 주변의 화소 값들과 비교하여 조건이 비슷할 경우 주변의 화소들을 합병하여 영역을 생성하는 방법으로 2방향으로만 주변 화소 값들과 비교를 수행하여 분할영역을 생성 및 합병한다. 실험결과 제안된 방법이 기존의 화소 기반 영역 분할 방법들보다 알고리즘이 간단하고 연산량이 작아 처리 시간이 짧으면서도 분할의 정확도가 우수한 영역기반 위성영상 영역분할 방법임을 알 수 있었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.818-828
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• 2016

This paper proposes a reusable design for the merging process used in three-dimensional High Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC), which can significantly reduce the implementation complexity by eliminating duplicated module redundancies. The majority of inter-prediction coding tools used in 3D-HEVC are utilized through a merge mode, whose extended merging process is based on built-in integration to completely wrap around the HEVC merging process. Consequently, the implementation complexity is unavoidably very high. To facilitate easy market implementation, the design of a legacy codec should be reused in an extended codec if possible. The proposed 3D-HEVC merging process is divided into the base merging process of reusing HEVC modules and reprocessing process of refining the existing processes that have been newly introduced or modified for 3D-HEVC. To create a reusable design, the causal and mutual dependencies between the newly added modules for 3D-HEVC and the reused HEVC modules are eliminated, and the ineffective methods are simplified. In an application of the proposed reusable design, the duplicated reimplementation of HEVC modules, which account for 50.7% of the 3D-HEVC merging process, can be eliminated while maintaining the same coding efficiency. The proposed method has been adopted as a normative coding tool in the 3D-HEVC international standard.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2004년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.56-62
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• 2004

시간/경제적 문제 혹은 수집 대상의 제한으로 충분한 수의 학습패턴을 모을 수 없는 경우에 인간의 두뇌를 모방한 교사학습 및 비교사학습 모델을 이용하여 새로운 학습패턴을 생성한 후 이를 이용하여 학습한 경우 성능이 향상됨을 보였다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.119-125
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 야구 동영상에서 민시프트 추적 프레임워크 하에 선수들을 병합-분리하는 방법을 제안한다. 민시프트 추적 방법은 추적대상 객체의 확률분포에 대해 현재 추적영역에서 확률 값이 최대가 되는 위치로 중심점을 이동하여 객체를 추적한다. 민시프트 추적은 처리속도가 빨라 실시간 추적 문제에 널리 사용되고 있다. 그러나, 다수 객체 추적에서 겹침 문제를 처리하기 어렵다. 이와 같은 문제는 일반적으로 데이터 연관 방법을 적용하여 해결한다. 하지만, 야구선수의 겹침 문제는 선수영역의 해상도가 낮고, 여러 객체가 한 모델을 공유하기 때문에 데이터 연관 방법을 바로 적용하기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 데이터 연관 방법 적용 이전에 선수 겹침 상황에서 병합-분리을 관리하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 선수의 겹침 상황에서 추적영역 내의 추적 맵 값을 조정하여 선수의 병합-분리를 관리한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법과 민시프트 알고리즘의 추적성능을 비교하여 제안방법의 성능이 우수함을 보였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제28권3E호
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• pp.118-135
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• 2009

The level set based approach is one of active methods for contour extraction in image segmentation. Since Osher and Sethian introduced the level set framework in 1988, the method has made the great impact on image segmentation. However, there are some problems to be solved; such as multi-objects segmentation, noise filtering and much calculation amount. In this paper we address the drawbacks of the previous level set methods and propose an extension of the traditional fast level set to cope with the limitations. We introduce a relationship matrix, a new split-and-merge criterion, a modified Chan-Vese criterion and a novel filtering criterion into the traditional fast level set approach. With the segmentation experiments we evaluate the proposed method and show the promising results of the proposed method.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.835-838
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• 2000

Popular methods for extracting a text region in video images are in general based on analysis of a whole image such as merge and split method, and comparison of two frames. Thus, they take long computing time due to the use of a whole image. Therefore, this paper suggests the faster method of extracting a text region without processing a whole image. The proposed method uses line sampling methods, FFT and neural networks in order to extract texts in real time. In general, text areas are found in the higher frequency domain, thus, can be characterized using FFT The candidate text areas can be thus found by applying the higher frequency characteristics to neural network. Therefore, the final text area is extracted by verifying the candidate areas. Experimental results show a perfect candidate extraction rate and about 92% text extraction rate. The strength of the proposed algorithm is its simplicity, real-time processing by not processing the entire image, and fast skipping of the images that do not contain a text.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2017

As video equipments such as CCTV are used for various purposes in fields of society, digital video data processing technology such as automatic motion detection is essential. In this paper, we proposed and implemented a more stable and accurate motion detection system based on background subtraction technique. We could improve the accuracy and stability of motion detection over existing methods by efficiently processing color information of digital image data. We divided the procedure of color information processing into each components of color information : brightness component, color component of color information and merge them. We can process each component's characteristics with maximum consideration. Our color information processing provides more efficient color information in motion detection than the existing methods. We improved the success rate of motion detection by our background update process that analyzed the characteristics of the moving background in the natural environment and reflected it to the background image.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.599-602
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 IKONOS 영상에서 고공간 해상도인 PAN 영상과 저공간 해상도인 MS 영상을 사용하여 IHS 융합법, FIHS 융합법, PCA 융합법, BT 융합법, WT 융합법으로 각각 처리한 후, 그 결과를 공간해상도 및 분광특성의 측면에서 비교 분석하였다. 이 5가지 방법에 의한 융합결과를 분광특성의 측면에서 평가한 결과 FIHS, BT, PCA, IHS, WT 융합법 순으로 칼라왜곡이 나타났다. 공간특성의 측면에서 평가한 결과는 거의 동일한 공간해상도를 나타내었으며, Original IKONOS 위성영상에서는 식별하기 어려운 건물지붕의 형태, 건물사이의 도로 등이 명확히 잘 구별되고 있다. 정량적 결과분석에서는 평균, 표준 편차, 상관계수 등을 사용하여 비교하였다.