Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea 

About: Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): CMOS & Pixel. Over the lifetime, 2512 publications have been published receiving 4222 citations.

Hidden Markov Model for Gesture Recognition

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel hidden Markov model (HMM)-based gesture recognition method and applies it to an HCI to control a computer game. The novelty of the proposed method is two-fold: 1) the proposed method uses a continuous streaming of human motion as the input to the HMM instead of isolated data sequences or pre-segmented sequences of data and 2) the gesture segmentation and recognition are performed simultaneously. The proposed method consists of a single HMM composed of thirteen gesture-specific HMMs that independently recognize certain gestures. It takes a continuous stream of pose symbols as an input, where a pose is composed of coordinates that indicate the face, left hand, and right hand. Whenever a new input Pose arrives, the HMM continuously updates its state probabilities, then recognizes a gesture if the probability of a distinctive state exceeds a predefined threshold. To assess the validity of the proposed method, it was applied to a real game, Quake II, and the results demonstrated that the proposed HMM could provide very useful information to enhance the discrimination between different classes and reduce the computational cost.

An Efficient Split-Step Time-Domain Dynamic Modeling of DFB/DBR Laser Diodes

Abstract: A novel and efficient approach for the numerical solution of time-dependent coupled-wave equations, which are frequently used for the modeling of DFB(Distributed Feedback), DBR(Distributed Bragg Reflector), and FP(Fabry Perot) laser diodes, is proposed. In this approach, the coupled wave equations are split into two sets of equations. One of two sets of equations contains only the phase factors and the other contains only the coupling terms. The separate equations are solved exactly in their split form successively. This new numerical scheme, which we call the SS-TDM(Split-Step Time Domain Model), is found to require an order of magnitude smaller number of subsections to get accurate results than the previous methods while the computation time for each time step is comparable to the previous methods.

클라우드 스토리지 시스템에서 데이터 접근빈도와 Erasure Codes를 이용한 데이터 복제 기법

Abstract: 클라우드 스토리지 시스템은 데이터의 저장과 관리를 위해서 분산 파일시스템을 사용한다. 기존 분산 파일시스템은 데이터 디스크의 손실 발생시 이를 복구하기 위해서 3개의 복제본을 만든다. 그러나 데이터 복제 기법은 저장공간을 원본 파일의 복제 횟수만큼 필요로하고 복제과정에서 입출력 발생이 증가하는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 SSD 기반 클라우드 스토리지 시스템에서 저장공간 효율성 향상과 입출력 성능 향상을 위하여 Erasure Codes를 이용한 데이터 복제 기법을 제안한다. 특히, 데이터 접근 빈도에 따라 복제 횟수를 줄이더라도 Erasure Codes를 사용하여 데이터 복구 성능을 동일하게 유지하였다. 실험 결과 제안한 기법이 HDFS 보다 저장공간 효율성은 최대 약40% 향상되었으며, 읽기성능은 약11%, 쓰기성능은 약10% 향상됨을 확인하였다.

New VLSI Architecture of Parallel Multiplier-Accumulator Based on Radix-2 Modified Booth Algorithm

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new architecture of multiplier-and-accumulator (MAC) for high speed multiplication and accumulation arithmetic. By combining multiplication with accumulation and devising a hybrid type of carry save adder (CSA), the performance was improved. Since the accumulator which has the largest delay in MAC was removed and its function was included into CSA, the overall performance becomes to be elevated. The proposed CSA tree uses 1's complement-based radix-2 modified booth algorithm (MBA) and has the modified array for the sign extension in order to increase the bit density of operands. The CSA propagates the carries by the least significant bits of the partial products and generates the least significant bits in advance for decreasing the number of the input bits of the final adder. Also, the proposed MAC accumulates the intermediate results in the type of sum and carry bits not the output of the final adder for improving the performance by optimizing the efficiency of pipeline scheme. The proposed architecture was synthesized with and 90nm standard CMOS library after designing it. We analyzed the results such as hardware resource, delay, and pipeline which are based on the theoretical and experimental estimation. We used Sakurai's alpha power low for the delay modeling. The proposed MAC has the superior properties to the standard design in many ways and its performance is twice as much than the previous research in the similar clock frequency.

Vision-based Vehicle Detection and Inter-Vehicle Distance Estimation

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a vision-based robust vehicle detection and inter-vehicle distance estimation algorithm for driving assistance system. We use the haar-like features of car rear-shadows, as well as the edge features for detecting of vehicles. The use of additional vehicle edge features greatly reduces the false-positive errors in the vehicle detection. And, after analyzing the conventional two inter-vehicle distance estimation methods: the location-based and the vehicle width-based, an improved inter-vehicle distance estimation algorithm which has the advantage of both method is proposed. Several experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.