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Construction of a Video Dataset for Face Tracking Benchmarking Using a Ground Truth Generation Tool

  • Do, Luu Ngoc;Yang, Hyung Jeong;Kim, Soo Hyung;Lee, Guee Sang;Na, In Seop;Kim, Sun Hee
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2014
  • In the current generation of smart mobile devices, object tracking is one of the most important research topics for computer vision. Because human face tracking can be widely used for many applications, collecting a dataset of face videos is necessary for evaluating the performance of a tracker and for comparing different approaches. Unfortunately, the well-known benchmark datasets of face videos are not sufficiently diverse. As a result, it is difficult to compare the accuracy between different tracking algorithms in various conditions, namely illumination, background complexity, and subject movement. In this paper, we propose a new dataset that includes 91 face video clips that were recorded in different conditions. We also provide a semi-automatic ground-truth generation tool that can easily be used to evaluate the performance of face tracking systems. This tool helps to maintain the consistency of the definitions for the ground-truth in each frame. The resulting video data set is used to evaluate well-known approaches and test their efficiency.

The Study on the Application of Accurate Solar Tracking Algorithm by using LabVIEW (태양정밀추적 알고리즘의 LabVIEW 적용 연구)

  • Oh, Seung-Jin;Kin, Young-Min;Lee, Yoon-Joon;Cho, Yil-Sik;Chun, Won-Gee
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.121-125
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    • 2009
  • There have been many developed systems for harnessing the solar energy such as solar water heaters, solar thermal power systems, PV systems, daylighting and solar hydrogen systems. all of them are capable of reducing $CO_2$ emission. However, the efficiency of those systems which work without a solar tracker is lower. This paper is a step by step procedure for fabrication and a performance test of a solar tracking system. The system developed in this study consists of motion controllers, motor drives, step-motors, feedback devices and application. CdS sensors are introduced into the solar tracking system for playing a primary role in poor conditions for tracking due to a gear backlash and a strong wind. Mini-dish was used as a concentrator for collecting sun light. The solar position data, in terms of azimuth and elevation, sunrise and sunset times was compared with those of KASI(Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute). The results presented in this article provide the high accuracy of the present system in solar tracking and indicate a potential for energy savings.

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Development and Validation of HAUSAT-2 Nanosatellite EPS (HAUSAT-2 위성의 전력계 개발 및 검증)

  • Kim, Dong-Un;Jang, Yeong-Geun;Mun, Byeong-Yeong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.89-101
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    • 2006
  • This paper addresses Electrical Power Subsystem(EPS) design and verification of HAUSAT-2 small satellite through energy balance analysis(EBA) depending on individual operation modes. GaAs solar cells are used for satellite power generation and digital peak power tracking is implemented for EPS architecture. One battery pack is consisted of 4 Li-Ion cells. Battery charge is accomplished by peak power tracker and battery charge regulator. Power conditioning assembly uses three DC-DC converters, and power distribution assembly which consists of commercial IC and MOSFET switch distributes power to subsystems and payloads. The altitude of 650km and sun-synchronous LEO with various local time ascending node(LTAN) are considered in EBA.

Energy Saving Type OF-LED Illuminated Display Board System with MPPT and CCVC Algorithms (MPPT 및 CCVC 알고리즘을 적용한 에너지 절약형 OF-LED 광고조명시스템)

  • Lee, Seong-Ryong;Jeon, Chil-Hwan;Lee, Su-Won;Lee, Eun-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2005
  • This paper studies the OF-LED(Optical Fiber-LED) illuminated display board system for energy saving. The OF-LED illuminated display board system has PV module, batteries, charge 8t discharge system and dynamic full color display controller. Both maximum power point tracker (MPPT) and constant current & constant voltage controls (CCVC) are used to govern the charging system. This system. improves the charging efficiency of battery. The system is compact and operates only by PV except the rainy days when the sun is unfavorable. in the system display control and charging-discharging control by on-chip microprocessor are simultaneously carried out. To verify the unposed system, me simulation and experiment results show the operating characteristics with a laboratory prototype.

A Study on the Performance Analysis for the CPV Module Applying Sphericalness Lens (구형렌즈를 적용한 CPV 모듈 발전성능 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Byeong-Ho;Kim, Nam-Oh;Lee, Kang-Yoen
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.59 no.3
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    • pp.293-297
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    • 2010
  • Next generation concentrating photovoltaic technologies could have a large-scale impact on world electricity production once they will become economically attractive and grid parity will be reached. Multi-junction solar cells will be characterised by a high value of the cell economical performance index if the cells were able to operate at high concentration level. Concentrating the sunlight by optical devices like lenses or mirrors reduces the area of expensive solar cells or modules, and, moreover, increases their efficiency. Accurate and reliable tracking is an important issue to maintain high the CPV system output power. Further, for high concentration CPV systems, the actual tracker cost is about 20% of the total CPV system cost. In this paper high-concentration is defined as systems using concentration ratios well above 100 times the one sun intensity and trackerlss CPV system studied. Using sphericalness lens and parallel MJ cell connection method were suggested and achieved experiment on a clear day in summer. Development of these high performance multi-junction CPV module promises to accelerate growth in photovoltaic power generation.

Gaze Differences between Expert and Novice Teachers in Science Classes

  • Kim, Won-Jung;Byeon, Jung-Ho;Lee, Il-Sun;Kwon, Yong-Ju
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.32 no.9
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    • pp.1443-1451
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    • 2012
  • This study aims to investigate the gaze patterns of two expert and two novice teachers in one hour of lecture type class. Teachers recruited from the same middle school conducted the class each, wearing an eye-tracker. Gaze rate and gaze movement pattern were analyzed. The scene where teachers faced in the classroom was categorized into three zones; student zone, material zone, and non-teaching zone. Student zone was divided into nine areas of interest to see the gaze distribution within the student zone. Expert teachers showed focused gaze on student zone while novice teachers' gaze rate was significantly higher at the non-teaching zone, compared to expert teachers' one. Within student zone, expert teachers' gaze spread to the rear areas, but novice teachers' one was narrowly resided in the middle areas of the student zone. This difference in gaze caused different eye movement pattern: experts' T pattern and novices' I pattern. On the other hand, both teacher groups showed the least gaze rate onto the left and right front areas. Which change is required to teachers' gaze behavior and what must be considered in order to make effective teacher gaze in the classroom setting were discussed.

Small UAV tracking using Kernelized Correlation Filter (커널상관필터를 이용한 소형무인기 추적)

  • Sun, Sun-Gu;Lee, Eui-Hyuk
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2020
  • Recently, visual object detection and tracking has become a vital role in many different applications. It spans various applications like robotics, video surveillance, and intelligent vehicle navigation. Especially, in current situation where the use of UAVs is expanding widely, detection and tracking to soot down illegal UAVs flying over the sky at airports, nuclear power plants and core facilities is becoming a very important task. The remarkable method in object tracking is correlation filter based tracker like KCF (Kernelized Correlation Filter). But it has problems related to target drift in tracking process for long-term tracking. To mitigate the target drift problem in video surveillance application, we propose a tracking method which uses KCF, adaptive thresholding and Kalman filter. In the experiment, the proposed method was verified by using monochrome video sequences which were obtained in the operational environment of UAV.

An Investigation in the Thermal Effect on a Low Earth Orbit Satellite under Yaw Motion for the Visibility of a Star Sensor (저궤도 위성에서 별센서의 가시성을 위한 Yaw Motion에 따른 열적 영향 고찰)

  • Kim, Hui-Kyung;Lee, Jang-Joon;Hyun, Bum-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.7
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    • pp.709-716
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    • 2009
  • Thermal condition according to the operation attitude of a satellite in orbit would be essential to be known because the orbit attitude is a dominant factor to affect satellite thermal design. In this paper, the change in space thermal environment and the thermal effect in thermal design are studied for a low earth orbit satellite according to the yaw motion. The present satellite retains sun-pointing attitude during daylight due to the fixed type solar arrays. And it also moves along the orbit with constant yaw motion in a longitudinal axis so that a star tracker which is a star sensor for satellite's attitude control always looks into the deep space. This attitude is considered in its better visibility to the stars for a successful mission operation. Also, it is required to access the corresponding thermal effects due to the yaw motion. Therefore, we try to verify these by the thermal analysis for the satellite thermal model with the yaw motion.

The Differences in Eye Movement of Pre-service Teachers and Elementary School Students in SBF Question about a Visual Material of the Change on the Lunar Phases (달 위상 변화의 시각화 자료에서 SBF 질문에 따른 예비교사와 초등학생의 시선 이동 차이)

  • Ko, Minseok;Yang, Ilho;Kim, Obeom;Lim, Sungman
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.273-285
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    • 2014
  • Purpose of this study is to analyze eye movements of pre-service teachers and elementary students about a visual material of the change on the lunar phases. Eye-Tracker was used for analysis for eye-fixation time and eye movement at the structure, behavior, function question on the visual material. The Results were as follows. First, the pre-service teacher checked the visual materials from a holistic perspective depending on the function questions and fixed eye-fixation on the moon of the behavior question concerned. On the contrary, elementary school student only checked function of the moon located in the upper part and eye-fixation focus was spread here and there regardless of the questions. Second, the pre-service teacher gazed at the sun, earth and moon in a consecutive order depending on the questions to identify their spatial relations and checked location of the moon related to the question. On the contrary, the elementary school student did not view relations between earth, sun and moon from a spatial perspective. These findings indicate that the pre-service teacher conjures up the mechanism of the change on the lunar phases and confirms it in visual materials by visualizing change on the lunar phase model from earth's point of view while the elementary school student fails to take advantage of visual materials to visualize it from earth's point of view.

Photo-sensorless dual-axis solar tracking system combined with IoT platform (IoT플랫폼이 결합된 광센서가 없는 태양광 추적 시스템)

  • Jung, Deok-Kyeom;Jeon, Jong-Woon;Park, Sung-Min;Chung, Gyo-Bum
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.664-671
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    • 2018
  • Generally, conventional solar tracking systems employ irradiance sensors to track a sun position, which enables the system to generate maximum solar energy. The usage of irradiance sensors increases system costs and deteriorates the performance of systems from sensor malfunctions. In this paper, a new solar tracking system without irradiance sensors has been proposed in which the controller capable of controlling and monitoring remotely is based on Artik platform. The proposed system tracks the sun position by comparing the amount of currents from several solar panels, resulting in removing irradiance sensors. In order to verify the performance of the proposed solar tracking method, the 12[V]-20[W] prototype system is built and implemented. Since the proposed system has remote monitoring functions through the employment of Artik as the IoT platform, more advantages in installation, maintenance and expanded functionality can be obtained compared to the conventional solar tracking system.