• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.465-489
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• 2013

We collected references on South Pacific Studies from several resources: mainly internet resources and periodicals. Internet resources include associations, organizations and societies; cultural resources; environmental issues; government data; information resources; journals and news letters; libraries, archives, publishers; news sources; other sources; regional issues; selected full text documents and digital resources; and statistics. Periodicals include news and popular interest magazines; regional magazines and general interest publications; and scholarly and professional journals.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.246-253
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• 2016

Infrared (IR) imaging has been researched for various applications such as surveillance. IR radiation has the capability to detect thermal characteristics of objects under low-light conditions. However, automatic segmentation for finding the object of interest would be challenging since the IR detector often provides the low spatial and contrast resolution image without color and texture information. Another hindrance is that the image can be degraded by noise and clutters. This paper proposes multi-level segmentation for extracting regions of interest (ROIs) and objects of interest (OOIs) in the IR scene. Each level of the multi-level segmentation is composed of a k-means clustering algorithm, an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, and a decision process. The k-means clustering initializes the parameters of the Gaussian mixture model (GMM), and the EM algorithm estimates those parameters iteratively. During the multi-level segmentation, the area extracted at one level becomes the input to the next level segmentation. Thus, the segmentation is consecutively performed narrowing the area to be processed. The foreground objects are individually extracted from the final ROI windows. In the experiments, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated using several IR images, in which human subjects are captured at a long distance. The average probability of error is shown to be lower than that obtained from other conventional methods such as Gonzalez, Otsu, k-means, and EM methods.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.341-354
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• 2018

The one of the principles described in ICH E9 is that only results obtained from pre-specified statistical methods in a protocol are regarded as confirmatory evidence. However, in multi-regional clinical trials, even when results obtained from pre-specified statistical methods in protocol are significant, it does not guarantee that the test treatment is approved by regional regulatory agencies. In other words, there is no so-called global approval, and each regional regulatory agency makes its own decision in the face of the same set of data from a multi-regional clinical trial. Under this situation, there are two natural methods a regional regulatory agency can use to estimate the treatment effect in a particular region. The first method is to use the overall treatment estimate, which is to extrapolate the overall result to the region of interest. The second method is to use regional treatment estimate. If the treatment effect is completely identical across all regions, it is obvious that the overall treatment estimator is more efficient than the regional treatment estimator. However, it is not possible to confirm statistically that the treatment effect is completely identical in all regions. Furthermore, some magnitude of regional differences within the range of clinical relevance may naturally exist for various reasons due to, for instance, intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Nevertheless, if the magnitude of regional differences is relatively small, a conventional method to estimate the treatment effect in the region of interest is to extrapolate the overall result to that region. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects produced by this type of extrapolation via estimations, followed by hypothesis testing of the treatment effect in the region of interest. This paper is written from the viewpoint of regional regulatory agencies.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.20-29
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 관심영역(ROI : Region Of Interest) 단위의 적분 프로젝션(Integral Projection) 기반 움직임 추정(ME : Motion Estimation)을 사용한 순차주사화(De-interlacing) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 움직임 추정은 적은 계산량을 사용하여 주어진 관심영역의 움직임을 정확히 추정한다. 이를 위해 먼저, 시간적 예측을 통한 블록 단위의 움직임 종류 및 공간적 위치를 고려하여 영상을 여러 개의 ROI로 분할한다. 본 논문에서는 전역 움직임을 추정하기 위한 1개의 ROI와 지역 움직임을 추정하기 위한 4개의 ROI를 구성하여 총 5개의 움직임 벡터를 생성한다. 추정된 움직임 벡터를 사용하여 프레임 변환 시 수직해상도 향상에 기여하는 움직임 보상을 실행한다. 마지막으로, 움직임 보상의 신뢰도에 따라서 필드 내 보간된 결과와 움직임 보상된 결과를 결합하여 최종 프레임 영상을 출력한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 기존 알고리즘에 비해 주관적 및 객관적인 면에서 모두 뛰어난 결과를 보임을 실험을 통해 확인할 수 있다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.39-47
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 관심영역 부호화를 위한 적응적인 관심영역 마스크 생성 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 사용자가 지정한 관심영역 정보를 이용하여 관심영역 마스크를 생성한다. 기존의 관심영역 부호화 방법에서는 모든 픽셀을 순차적으로 스캔하여 관심영역의 판별을 한 후에 관심영역 마스크를 생성하는 반면에, 제안한 방법은 관심영역 모양 특징을 기반으로 일부 픽셀만을 스캔하여 코드블록 단위의 관심영역의 판별을 한 후에 관심영역 마스크를 생성한다. 그리고 제안한 방법은 성능에 영향을 미치는 패턴 개수, 관심영역 임계값, 배경 임계값 매개변수를 제공한다. 제안한 방법의 유용성을 보이기 위해 기존의 방법들과 비교 실험한 결과, 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법에 비해 속도 면에 있어서 우수함을 확인하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.439-445
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• 2021

영상 센서 및 소형 디스플레이의 발달로 가능해진 저가의 고속 카메라는 영상처리 및 패턴인식 분야에서 유용하게 활용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 약간의 시차를 두고 연속적으로 입력되는 고속의 영상으로부터 불규칙적인 조명을 보정한 다음, 조명이 보정된 영상으로부터 사람의 관심 영역인 노출된 피부 색상 영역을 획득하는 알고리즘을 소개한다. 본 연구에서는 먼저 받아들인 고속의 영상으로부터 비 균일하게 발생된 조명적인 효과를 프레임 블렌딩 기법을 사용하여 보정한다. 그런 다음, 사전에 반복적인 학습으로 생성된 타원형의 피부 색상 분포 모델을 적용하여 입력된 고속의 컬러 영상으로부터 관심 영역을 강인하게 획득한다. 실험 결과에서는 본 논문에서 제시된 접근 방법이 입력되는 컬러 영상으로부터 조명을 보정한 다음 관심 영역을 정확하게 획득한다는 것을 보여준다. 본 연구에서 제안된 알고리즘은 얼굴 인식 및 추적, 조명 보정 및 제거, 동영상 색인 및 검색 등과 같은 영상 인식과 연관된 다양한 종류의 실제적인 응용 프로그램에서 매우 유용하게 이용될 것으로 추측된다.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.39-57
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• 1996

All kinds of environmental problems are related to each local and geographical environment. For this reason, it is necessary for schools in each region to provide environmental education which suits the geographical character of their particular region. In order to provide solutions to the environmental problems of each school's geographic region, the goal of this research is as follows: 1. We can make students realize the relationship between the human race and the environment by teaching according to the environmental conditions in each local area. 2. By teaching students about the problems in their own local environment, we can increase their concern about the state of their local surroundings. 3. When teaching about the environment, it is useful to use educational material which suits the character of each local region. 4. Students' interest in environmental preservation can be aroused through extracurricular environmental activities. The ares concerned are Chonnam and Kwangju City, which are divided into urban, industrial, rural, coastal, and mountainous areas. The conclusion about considering environmental education in environmental school social studies is as follows: 1. Kwangju and Chonnam should be divided into five sections, each with similar geographical environments. This will be an improvement over the old uniform approach to environmental studies in which all regions were treated as being the same each region will now receive special attention. 2. It is necessary to maximize the efficient use of the Environmental Education Building. When Media, environmental data and special materials for environmental education are used effectively, teachers can lead class effectively and students will be more interested in the class. 3. We can detect the cause of pollution, increase interest in the environment and easily solve environmental problems by collecting and displaying environmental educational materials. 4. An environmental education corner could boost students' interest in environmental problems and could act as a kind of bridge between theoretical and practical education. 5. Media and environmental data must be specialized according to the geographic character of each region. In this way, we can expect to improve the quality of environmental education over the simplistic environmental education of previous years. 6. Students will become interested in the problems of the region in which they live through social studies, and primarily through the environmental curriculum. 7. We can prevent learning deficiencies by making a consistent teaching plan. The teaching and learning methods will be improved and the teachers will be proud of what they teach. 8. The purpose of the Education Procedure Content Analysis is to make teaching and learning concise and easy by systematizing environmental and related subjects. This can be done by adding an environmental unit to the geographic section of social studies. 9. Citizens' interest in their own residential environment can be increased through action by sustaining environmental preservation movements to local region people.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.91-107
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• 2022

Purpose - This study quantitatively examines the level of financial inclusion of a microfinance institution in each region and how this is changing recently, and examines the level of financial inclusion by region and various financial characteristic factors related to it. It was empirically verified what kind of significant impact actually has on the institution's major management performance indicators (stability, profitability, efficiency, and public interest). Design/methodology/approach - It was confirmed that the institution's financial inclusion index declined rapidly after 2015 as a whole, although there were some differences by region depending on regional characteristics. However, considering the fact that the number of branches per 100,000 adult population is steadily increasing nationwide, it was found that, contrary to what is known, the simple decrease in the number of branches of the institution was not the main cause. Findings - The analysis results of this study show that the institution's efforts for financial inclusion have a positive impact on profitability, stability, efficiency, and public interest, and that the institution pursues profitability, efficiency, stability, and public interest. showed that some trade-offs exist. In other words, overall, it was analyzed that profitability of the institution has a positive effect on efficiency, and efficiency has a positive effect on stability and public interest. Research implications or Originality - Since the institution's efforts to improve its profitability do not have a negative impact on its stability and public interest, it is judged that it is important to take a strategic stance, so excessive loan supply that exceeds the scope of the institution's own control needs to be avoided as much as possible. More detailed financial supply strategies and business management capabilities that enhance the asset soundness and management efficiency of safes need to be demonstrated.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.22-33
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• 2005

Response Surface Method (RSM) constructs approximate response surfaces using sample data from experiments or simulations and finds optimum levels of process variables within the fitted response surfaces of the interest region. It will be necessary to get the most suitable response surface for the accuracy of the optimization. The application of RSM plan experimental designs. The RSM is used in the sequential optimization process. The first goal of this study is to improve the plan of central composite designs of experiments with various locations of axial points. The second is to increase the optimal efficiency applying a modified method to update interest regions.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제25권1B호
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• pp.148-155
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• 2000

영상 내에서 중요한 내용을 포함하고 있는 관심영역 (region of interest: ROI)을 나머지 영역보다 우선적으로 전송하는 점진적 관심영역 부호화 방법은 웹 검색이나 영상 데이터베이스 시스템에 유용하게 사용될 수 있다. 관심영역 부호화 방법은 전 영역을 동일한 중요도로 전송하는 일반적인 점진적 부호화(progressive coding) 방법과는 달리, 특정 영역을 우선적으로 부호화하여 전송하기 때문에 짧은 시간 내에 매우 적은 양의 수신된 비트스트림을 가지고 원영상의 내용을 파악할 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 비트율 제어와 점진적 전송 기술을 적용하기 용이한 임베디드 부호화 방법을 이용한 점진적 관심영역 부호화 방법과, 원영상에 대한 관심영역의 위치정보를 효율적으로 전송하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 웹 검색이나 영상 데이터베이스 시스템 등의 응용 분야에 효과적으로 적용할 수 있음을 실험 결과를 통하여 확인하였다.