• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06c
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• pp.417-420
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• 2011

로봇이 능동적으로 행동하기 위해서는 외부 신호를 받아서 처리해야 되는데 여러 가지 센서 중에서도 영상처리가 중요해지고 있다. 하지만 영상처리를 사용하였을 경우는 예측할 수 없는 외부환경으로부터 영향을 받을 수 있다. 예를 들면 조명이 일정한 내부 환경에서는 인식이 가능하나 외부환경에서는 불가능한 경우가 있다. 그러므로 로봇산업이 발전에 중요한 축을 담당하고 있는 영상처리에 분야 중에서 논문에서는 조명이 변하는 상황을 설정해보고 그 상황을 토대로 기존의 알고리즘인 [2][3] Single-scale Retinex. [4][5] Multi-scale Retinex와 인식률을 비교해보고 Single-scale Retinex을 기반으로 단순히 Multi- scale Retinex처럼 가중치를 같이 두는 것이 아니라 상황에 따라 가중치를 다르게 주는 알고리즘 'Adaptive Two Scale Relinex Algorilhm'을 소개하겠다. 더불어 앞으로 나아가야 될 방향에 대해서도 언급하겠다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.609-618
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• 2013

This paper proposes a fast image segmentation method that gives high segmentation performance as graph-cut based methods. Graph-cut based image segmentation methods show high segmentation performance, however, the computational complexity is high to solve a computationally-intensive eigen-system. This is because solving eigen-system depends on the size of square matrix obtained from similarities between all pairs of pixels in the input image. Therefore, the proposed method uses the small-size square matrix, which is obtained from all the similarities among regions obtained by segmenting locally an image into several regions by graph-based method. Experimental results show that the proposed multi-scale image segmentation method using the algebraic multi-grid shows higher performance than existing methods.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2012.03a
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• pp.427-432
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• 2012

This paper proposes efficient operation method of PV system consisted of multi-central which is suitable for large scale system. The multi-central system used switch at a DC-link and applied proposed algorithm can improve the efficiency and the reliability on the existing system. This algorithm, with advantage of Multi-Central system can minimize the effect of different characteristic of each PV array due to a shadow or damaged PV cell. Each system is analysed and maximum power point tracking control, DC-link voltage control and output current control is used commonly. The validity is verified after comparing of the existing system and proposed system by simulation.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2009

The safe and reliable performance of fusion and fission plants depends on the choice of suitable materials and an assessment of long-term materials degradation. These materials are degraded by their exposure to extreme conditions; it is necessary, therefore, to address the issue of long-term damage evolution of materials under service exposure in advanced plants. The empirical approach to the study of structural materials and fuels is reaching its limit when used to define and extrapolate new materials, new environments, or new operating conditions due to a lack of knowledge of the basic principles and mechanisms present. Materials designed for future Gen IV systems require significant innovation for the new environments that the materials will be exposed to. Thus, it is a challenge to understand the materials more precisely and to go far beyond the current empirical design methodology. Breakthrough technology is being achieved with the incorporation in design codes of a fundamental understanding of the properties of materials. This paper discusses the multi-scale, multi-code computations and multi-dimensional modelling undertaken to understand the mechanical properties of these materials. Such an approach is envisaged to probe beyond currently possible approaches to become a predictive tool in estimating the mechanical properties and lifetimes of materials.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.697-702
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• 2019

We propose a multi-band multi-scale DenseNet with dilated convolution that separates background music signals from broadcast content. Dilated convolution can learn the multi-scale context information represented by spectrogram. In computer simulation experiments, the proposed architecture is shown to improve Signal to Distortion Ratio (SDR) by 0.15 dB and 0.27 dB in 0dB and -10 dB Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) environments, respectively.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.101-110
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• 2021

In computer vision, single-image super resolution has been an area of research for a significant period. Traditional techniques involve interpolation-based methods such as Nearest-neighbor, Bilinear, and Bicubic for image restoration. Although implementations of convolutional neural networks have provided outstanding results in recent years, efficiency and single model multi-scalability have been its challenges. Furthermore, previous works haven't placed enough emphasis on real-number scalability. Interpolation-based techniques, however, have no limit in terms of scalability as they are able to upscale images to any desired size. In this paper, we propose a convolutional neural network possessing the advantages of the interpolation-based techniques, which is also efficient, deeming it suitable in practical implementations. It consists of convolutional layers applied on the low-resolution space, post-up-sampling along the end hidden layers, and additional layers on high-resolution space. Up-sampling is applied on a multiple channeled feature map via bicubic interpolation using a single model. Experiments on architectural structure, layer reduction, and real-number scale training are executed with results proving efficient amongst multi-scale learning (including scale multi-path-learning) based models.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.212-218
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• 2021

Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) have become the common network infrastructure for a wide scope of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. For efficient routing in LLNs, IETF provides a standard solution, namely the IPv6 Routing Protocol for LLNs (RPL). It enables effective interconnectivity with IP networks and flexibly can meet the different application requirements of IoT deployments. However, it still suffers from different open issues, particularly in large-scale setups. These include the node unreachability problem which leads to increasing routing losses at RPL sink nodes. It is a result of the event of memory overflow at LLNs devices due to their limited hardware capabilities. Although this can be alleviated by the establishment of multi-sink topologies, RPL still lacks the support for effective load balancing among multiple sinks. In this paper, we address the need for an efficient multi-sink load balancing solution to enhance the performance of PRL in large-scale scenarios and alleviate the node unreachability problem. We propose a new RPL objective function, Multi-Sink Load Balancing Objective Function (MSLBOF), and introduce the Memory Utilization metrics. MSLBOF enables each RPL node to perform optimal sink selection in a way that insure better memory utilization and effective load balancing. Evaluation results demonstrate the efficiency of MSLBOF in decreasing packet loss and enhancing network stability, compared to MRHOF in standard RPL.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.600-605
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a sound event detection method using a multi-channel multi-scale neural networks for sound sensing home monitoring for the hearing impaired. In the proposed system, two channels with high signal quality are selected from several wireless microphone sensors in home. The three features (time difference of arrival, pitch range, and outputs obtained by applying multi-scale convolutional neural network to log mel spectrogram) extracted from the sensor signals are applied to a classifier based on a bidirectional gated recurrent neural network to further improve the performance of sound event detection. The detected sound event result is converted into text along with the sensor position of the selected channel and provided to the hearing impaired. The experimental results show that the sound event detection method of the proposed system is superior to the existing method and can effectively deliver sound information to the hearing impaired.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.4 s.36
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• pp.239-248
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• 2005

The reliability and efficiency of network must be considered in the large scale wireless sensor networks. Broadcast method must be used rather than unicast method to enhance the reliability of networks. In recently proposed GRAB (GRAdient Broadcast) can certainly enhance reliability of networks fy using broadcast but its efficiency regarding using energy of network is low due to using only one sink. Hence, the lifetime of networks is reduced. In the paper we propose the scheme of SMSGB (Selective Multi Sink Gradient Broadcast) which uses single sink of multi-sink networks. The broadcast based SMSGB can secure reliability of large scale wireless sensor networks. The SMSGB can also use the network's energy evenly via multi sink distribution. Our experiments show that using SMSGB was reliable as GRAB and it increased the network's lifetime by 18% than using GRAB.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.1140-1151
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• 2023

Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM) fuel is emerging advanced fuel material for the future nuclear reactors. The fuel pellet in the FCM fuel is composed of matrix and a large number of TRistructural-ISOtopic (TRISO) fuel particles which are randomly dispersed in the SiC matrix. The minimum layer thickness in a TRISO fuel particle is on the order of 10^-5 m, and the length of the FCM pellet is on the order of 10^-2 m. Hence, the heat transfer in the FCM pellet is a multi-scale phenomenon. In this study, three multi-scale heat conduction models including the Multi-region Layered (ML) model, Multi-region Non-layered (MN) model and Homogeneous model for FCM pellet were constructed. In the ML model, the random distributed TRISO fuel particles and coating layers are completely built. While the TRISO fuel particles with coating layers are homogenized in the MN model and the whole fuel pellet is taken as the homogenous material in the Homogeneous model. Taking the results by the ML model as the benchmark, the abilities of the MN model and Homogenous model to predict the maximum and average temperature were discussed. It was found that the MN model and the Homogenous model greatly underestimate the temperature of TRISO fuel particles. The reason is mainly that the conventional equivalent thermal conductivity (ETC) models do not take the internal heat source into account and are not suitable for the TRISO fuel particle. Then the improved ETCs considering internal heat source were derived. With the improved ETCs, the MN model is able to capture the peak temperature as well as the average temperature at a wide range of the linear powers (165 W/cm~ 415 W/cm) and the packing fractions (20%-50%). With the improved ETCs, the Homogenous model is better to predict the average temperature at different linear powers and packing fractions, and able to predict the peak temperature at high packing fractions (45%-50%).