• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.1125-1137
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• 2011

최근, 휴대성과 이동성이 뛰어난 모바일 단말기 환경에 홍채 인식 기술을 도입하여 신원을 확인하는 연구가 진행 되었는데, 이러한 모바일 홍채 인식 시스템은 취득된 홍채 영상 품질에 따라 인식률이 좌우된다. 홍채 영상은 취득 시 조명환경에 영향을 많이 받게 되는데, 기존의 시스템은 태양광이 없는 실내에서는 높은 인식률을 보이나, 실외 태양광 환경에서는 외부태양광이 홍채 영역에 투사되어 입력 영상 내에서 홍채 패턴의 그레이 레벨 변화, 고스트(Ghost region) 및 속눈썹 그림자(Eyelash shading region) 발생 등의 요인으로 인식 성능 저하를 초래하는 문제가 있었다. 이를 해결하기 위하여, 본 연구에서는 850nm 근적외선 조명과 850nm 대역 밴드 패스 필터를 장착한 홍채 카메라 시스템을 제안한다. 성능 평가를 위해 기존의 홍채 인식시스템과 제안하는 홍채 인식 시스템을 사용하여 실내 및 실외 태양광 환경에서 취득한 홍채 영상으로부터 홍채코드를 추출한 후 타인 수락률(False Acceptance Rate), 본인 거부율 (False Rejection Rate)을 통한 균등 에러율(EER, Equal Error Rate)을 측정하였다. 실험 결과 기존의 시스템 보다 제안하는 시스템의 EER이 실내 정면 조명일 때 약 0.96%, 실외 정면 조명일 때 약 4.94%, 실외 측면 조명일 때 약 9.24%, 실외 후면 조명일 때 약 7% 낮아지는 개선된 성능을 보였다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.253-260
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• 2009

컴퓨터 비전이나 패턴 인식 분야에서 이용되고 있는 많은 알고리즘들이 최근 빠른 수행시간을 위해 GPU에서 구현되고 있지만, GPU를 이용하여 알고리즘을 구현할 경우 크게 두 가지 문제점을 고려해야 한다. 첫째, 컴퓨터 그래픽스 분야의 지식이 필요한 쉐이딩(shading) 언어를 알아야 한다. 둘째, GPU를 효율적으로 활용하기 위해 CPU와 GPU간의 데이터 교환을 최소화해야 한다. 이를 위해 CPU는 GPU에서 처리할 수 있는 최대 용량의 데이터를 생성하여 GPU에 전송해야 하기 때문에 CPU에서 많은 처리시간을 소모하며, 이로 인해 CPU와 GPU 사이에 많은 오버헤드가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 그래픽 하드웨어와 멀티코어(multi-core) CPU를 이용한 빠르고 효율적인 신경망 구현 방법을 제안한다. 기존 GPU의 첫 번째 문제점을 해결하기 위해 제안된 방법은 복잡한 쉐이팅 언어 대신 그래픽스적인 기본지식 없이도 GPU를 이용하여 응용프로그램 개발이 가능한 CUDA를 이용하였다. 두 번째 문제점을 해결하기 위해 멀티코어 CPU에서 공유 메모리 환경의 병렬화를 수행할 수 있는 OpenMP를 이용하였으며, 이의 처리시간을 줄여 CPU와 GPU 환경에서 오버 헤드를 최소화할 수 있다. 실험에서 제안된 CUDA와 OpenMP기반의 구현 방법을 신경망을 이용한 문자영역 검출 알고리즘에 적용하였으며, CPU에서의 수행시간과 비교하여 약 15배, GPU만을 이용한 수행시간과 비교하여 약 4배정도 빠른 수행시간을 보였다.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.265-276
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• 2020

본 연구는 여름철 고온기에 작물을 정상적으로 재배할 수 있는 환경을 조성하여 농산 가격이 가장 높은 여름철에 수확량을 높이고 재배기간을 연장시켜 농가소득을 올릴 수 있는 방안을 제시하고자 수행하였다. 바닥면적 504㎡의 연동온실의 최대 냉방부하는 462,609W로 나타났으며, 고온기에 온실을 차광하지 않고도 32℃ 이하로 유지하기 위해서는 시간당 472L의 물을 포그 분무해야 하는 것으로 나타났다. 포그 냉방 시스템은 포그 장치, 유동팬, 차광장치로 구성하고, 이들 장치를 효과적으로 제어할 수 있는 포그 냉방 자동제어장치를 개발하였다. 포그 냉방시스템의 냉방 성능은 온실 외기온 보다 내부온도를 6℃ 낮출 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 포그 온실의 내부 상대습도는 주간에는 40~80%로 대조 온실의 20~60% 보다 약 20% 높게 나타나 오이의 생육에 기여하는 것으로 나타났다. 오이의 생육상태는 포그 온실에서 재배한 오이가 대조 온실에 비해 초장, 엽장, 엽폭, 엽수, 엽록소 값이 전체적으로 높게 나타났다. 포그 온실의 오이 수확량은 대조 온실에 비해 단동 온실에서는 1.8배, 연동 온실에서는 2배 높게 나타났다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.113-121
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• 1989

한국과학기술원의 설계자동화연구실에서 IBM PC/AT 상에서 동작하도록 제작한 그래픽스 보드 "K"를 구동시키기 위하여 소프트웨어 인터페이스인 CGI-K를 TI사에서 제공한 C언어와 어셈블리 언어를 이용하여 작성하였다. CGI-K를 구성하는 디바이스 드라이버 루틴과 네모, 원, 현 및 호와 같은 그래픽스 프리미티브를 만드는 알고리듬을 제안하였으며, CGI-K는 EGA(enhanced graphics adapter)의 CGI보다 3배에서 10배 정도 빠른 속도를 갖는 것을 보였다. CGI-K를 이용하여 2차원 그래픽스 에디터인 GRIM과 3차원 모델링 프로그램인 IPCHE를 만들었으며, GRIM은 그래픽스 프리미티브를 이용하여 원하는 그림을 그릴 수 있도록 하였으며 IPCHE는 3차원 물체의 데이타를 받아들여 보이지 않는 면을 제거하고 명암과 원근 효과를 갖는 3차원 물체를 화면상에 그려 준다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.107-112
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• 2017

The BCBJ (Back Contact and Back Junction) or back-lit solar cell design eliminates shading loss by placing the pn junction and metal electrode contacts all on one side that faces away from the sun. However, as the electron-hole generation sites now are located very far from the pn junction, loss by minority-carrier recombination can be a significant issue. Utilizing Medici, a 2-dimensional semiconductor device simulation tool, the interdependency between the substrate thickness and the minority-carrier recombination lifetime was studied in terms of how these factors affect the solar cell power output. Qualitatively speaking, the results indicate that a very high quality substrate with a long recombination lifetime is needed to maintain the maximum power generation. The quantitative value of the recombination lifetime of minority-carriers, i.e., electrons in p-type substrates, required in the BCBJ cell is about one order of magnitude longer than that in the front-lit cell, i.e., $5{\times}10^{-4}sec$ vs. $5{\times}10^{-5}sec$. Regardless of substrate thickness up to $150{\mu}m$, the power output in the BCBJ cell stays at nearly the maximum value of about $1.8{\times}10^{-2}W{\cdot}cm^{-2}$, or $18mW{\cdot}cm^{-2}$, as long as the recombination lifetime is $5{\times}10^{-4}s$ or longer. The output power, however, declines steeply to as low as $10mW{\cdot}cm^{-2}$ when the recombination lifetime becomes significantly shorter than $5{\times}10^{-4}sec$. Substrate thinning is found to be not as effective as in the front-lit case in stemming the decline in the output power. In view of these results, for BCBJ applications, the substrate needs to be only mono-crystalline Si of very high quality. This bars the use of poly-crystalline Si, which is gaining wider acceptance in standard front-lit solar cells.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.38-42
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• 2018

Continuous efforts are being made to improve the efficiency of Si solar cells, which is the prevailing technology at this time. As opposed to the standard front-lit solar cell design, the back-lit design suffers no shading loss because all the metal electrodes are placed on one side close to the pn junction, which is referred to as the front side, and the incoming light enters the denuded back side. In this study, a systematic comparison between the two designs was conducted by means of computer simulation. Medici, a two-dimensional semiconductor device simulation tool, was utilized for this purpose. The $0.6{\mu}m$ wavelength, the peak value for the AM-1.5 illumination, was chosen for the incident photons, and the minority-carrier recombination lifetime (${\tau}$), a key indicator of the Si substrate quality, was the main variable in the simulation on a p-type $150{\mu}m$ thick Si substrate. Qualitatively, minority-carrier recombination affected the short circuit current (Isc) but not the opencircuit voltage (Voc). The latter was most affected by series resistance associated with the electrode locations. Quantitatively, when ${\tau}{\leq}500{\mu}s$, the simulation yielded the solar cell power outputs of $20.7mW{\cdot}cm^{-2}$ and $18.6mW{\cdot}cm^{-2}$, respectively, for the front-lit and back-lit cells, a reasonable 10 % difference. However, when ${\tau}$ < $500{\mu}s$, the difference was 20 % or more, making the back-lit design less than competitive. We concluded that the back-lit design, despite its inherent benefits, is not suitable for a broad range of Si solar cells but may only be applicable in the high-end cells where float-zone (FZ) or magnetic Czochralski (MCZ) Si crystals of the highest quality are used as the substrate.

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2008년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.906-911
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• 2008

Because the perimeter of buildings is strongly influenced by solar and the outdoor air temperature, the area has different environmental properties compared to the interior of a building, as in summer heat gain, and in winter heat loss. In particular, if the external wall is glass, the characteristics of the glass material make it pervious to outside conditions, thereby making big changes to the thermal environment. By combining shading device and the efficient exhaust system, an energy saving can be achieved compared to no air barrier systems. The simplified air barrier system is developed with the idea that energy could be conserved by carefully and effectively blowing out the air caught between the glass surface and the roller blind. The way it is configured is therefore by making the roller blind's air-path, and by placing the air output ducts in the most optimum positions. This simplified air barrier system will give improvement in the thermal environment of the parameter area that is strongly affected by solar and the outdoor condition.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.113-118
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• 2011

In order to prevent incoming solar radiation, it is necessary to study about blinds' blocking out effects of heat that are installed at the balcony at an apartment house. To figure out the heating effects from the windows, a study for indoor thermal environment according to the location of blinds is also needed. In order to find out the changes of indoor thermal environment, we'll compare models of a house building with or without Venetian blinds: one place has an extended living room removing a balcony and another one has a normal balcony. The result is as follows. Without blinds, the place with an extended living room has benefits for saving heat compare to the place with a normal balcony. It's because the warm air heated by the incoming solar radiation moves into the living room through convection current and radiation which causes an increase of the indoor temperature. At an extended living room, the temperature difference from outside and inside, when blinds were installed inside, was $1.9^{\circ}C$ while it was $0.6^{\circ}C$ when the blinds were installed at outside of the balcony. It is evaluated that setting up the blind outside prevents much heat. At the space with a normal balcony, installing blinds at living room windows can save much heat compare to installing blinds at windows at the balcony. The indoor temperature was low when blinds were installed. It can be said that blinds block heat from the incoming solar radiation. Moreover, when blinds are installed, there is a big change of indoor temperature due to the radiation from the blinds' slat and convective activities in between the blinds and windows. This also has to be considered.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2016

Purpose: This preliminary study investigated a potential of the water wall systems that provide heat storage and natural lighting control simultaneously. Method: In order for transparency of the water wall to be controlled, the study first proposed two measures: to adjust transparency of the water wall; to control transparency of water wall surface. The performance of two measures then was verified and compared by experiments. In addition, a trade-off between heat collect and heat storage resulting from using additive for adjusting transparency was investigated. Result: The experiment showed that the two measures are similar in performance. The investigation of trade-off relation showed the additive should have the same heat storage as the water to prevent decrease in thermal performance of the water wall. As an economical measure to control transparency of the water wall, this study suggested a measure of secondary heat transfer systems using shading device that first absorbs solar radiation and then transfers heat to the water wall. The experiment show that performance of the proposed measure is similar to controlling transparency of water wall surface. In conclusion, it is expected that the performance of the water wall can be economically maximized by using the proposed mean in terms of heating, cooling and lighting energy saving.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2018

The objects of PV (Photovoltaic) monitoring system is to reduce the loss of system and operation and maintenance costs. In case of PV plants with configured of centralized inverter type, only 1 PV module might be caused a large loss in the PV plant. For this reason, the monitoring technology of PV module-level that find out the location of the fault module and reduce the system losses is interested. In this paper, a fault diagnosis algorithm are proposed using thermal and electrical characteristics of PV modules under failure. In addition, the monitoring system applied with proposed algorithm was constructed. The wireless sensor using LoRa chip was designed to be able to connect with IoT device in the future. The characteristics of PV module by shading is not failure but it is treated as a temporary failure. In the monitoring system, it is possible to diagnose whether or not failure of bypass diode inside the junction box. The fault diagnosis algorithm are developed on considering a situation such as communication error of wireless sensor and empirical performance evaluation are currently conducting.