Abstract: A method for monitoring a state of wearing safety protective equipment according to an embodiment includes receiving an image from a site monitoring device installed at an operation site determining whether a work performed in a monitoring area corresponds to a dangerous work by analyzing the image; detecting a target worker and a body area of the target worker when it is determined that the work corresponds to the dangerous work as a result of determining whether the work performed in the monitoring area corresponds to the dangerous work; determining a type of safety protective equipment required for the target worker; and determining the state of the target worker wearing the safety protective equipment.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a neuromorphic semiconductor device includes a first synaptic array that includes a first synaptic device having a first weight, a second synaptic array that includes a second synaptic device configured to symmetrically adjust a second weight with respect to a potentiation or depression operation, and a control unit that configures a single synapse through the first synaptic device and the second synaptic device and determines a final weight by accessing the first and second weights together in a reading process.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of effectively deblurring a defocus blur in an input image based on an inverse kernel. The defocus deblurring method includes: generating, by an encoder network, an input feature map by encoding the input image; filtering, by an atrous convolution network including a plurality of atrous convolutional layers arranged in parallel, the input feature map to generate an output feature map having reduced blur component; and generating, by a decoder network, an output image having reduced blur from the output feature map with the reduced blur component and the input image.

Abstract: A method comprising: receiving an image stream of a mammalian cardiac muscle cell; defining or having defined a region of interest (ROI) within said cell; calculating a fast Fourier transform (FFT) of said ROI; detecting peaks in said FFT; and determining at least one of sarcomere length, mitochondrial length, and mitochondrial width, based, at least in part, in said detected peaks.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for image restoration based on burst images. The method includes generating a plurality of feature representations corresponding to individual images of a burst image set by encoding the individual images, determining a reference feature representation from among the plurality of feature representations, determining a first comparison pair including the reference feature representation and a first feature representation of the plurality of feature representations, generating a first motion-embedding feature representation of the first comparison pair based on a similarity score map of the reference feature representation and the first feature representation, generating a fusion result by fusing a plurality of motion-embedding feature representations including the first motion-embedding feature representation, and generating at least one restored image by decoding the fusion result.

Abstract: A photovoltaic panel fault diagnosis method using a fault diagnosis algorithm in a photovoltaic system comprises modeling a photovoltaic system simulation model necessary for the fault diagnosis algorithm, defining fault scenarios and pre-processing through data normalization after creating and acquiring fault data in advance using the photovoltaic system simulation model, and utilizing scenario-specific fault data obtained through the data normalization with a machine learning method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an influenza virus surface protein-derived recombinant hemagglutinin (HA) protein forming a trimer and use thereof, and more specifically to a recombinant vector for producing an influenza virus surface protein-derived HA protein forming a trimer, a transformant transformed by the recombinant vector, a method for producing an influenza virus surface protein-derived HA protein forming a trimer using the recombinant vector, an influenza virus surface protein-derived HA protein produced by the method, and the use thereof in preventing, ameliorating or treating influenza virus-infected disease.

Abstract: A system for providing an adaptive AR streaming service may comprise: a cloud AR server that stores an AR object composed of a plurality of progressive mesh chunks, and a meta file including property information of the AR object and the progressive mesh chunks; and a mobile augmented reality (AR) device that requests and receives the meta file from the cloud AR server, parses the meta file to identify a property of the AR object, and implements augmented reality.

Abstract: A method of providing a texture motion effect in a multisensory media system includes generating a texture signal by using linear predictive coding (LPC) filters obtained by applying LPC to each of a column and a row forming a texture image selected from an input image and generating a texture motion by using a visual roughness of the texture signal and a depth speed of a camera.

Abstract: A method of using memristor aided logic (MAGIC), comprises connecting together two input and one output memristor between a bit line and a word line, each memristor having a high resistance state and a low resistance state, setting the output memristor to the low resistance state as an initiation state and then applying logic inputs to the input memristors. The output then depends on whether the logic inputs have set the output memristor to the high resistance state.

Abstract: Disclosed is an inverter which includes a first P-MOS transistor connected between a node receiving a drain voltage and a first path node and operated based on an input voltage, a first N-MOS transistor connected between the first path node and an output terminal outputting an output voltage and operated based on the drain voltage, a second P-MOS transistor connected between the output terminal and a second path node and operated based on a ground voltage, a second N-MOS transistor connected between the second path node and a node receiving the ground voltage and operated based on the input voltage, a third P-MOS transistor connected between the first path node and the second path node and operated based on the input voltage, and a third N-MOS transistor connected between the first path node and the second path node and operated based on the input voltage.

Abstract: A three-terminal synaptic device includes a substrate; a source electrode and a drain electrode which are provided on the substrate and spaced apart from each other. The three-terminal synaptic device further includes: a channel layer provided on the substrate, the source electrode, and the drain electrode; an ion reservoir layer which stores active ions; a gate electrode provided on the ion reservoir layer; and an ion barrier layer disposed between the ion reservoir layer. In particular, the channel layer controls movement of active ions between the ion reservoir layer and the channel layer. The three-terminal synaptic device inhibits rapid movement of ions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a natural language query processing apparatus comprising, a processor that receives a natural language query input by a user and generates a structured query based on the natural language query, wherein the processor, when generating the structured query based on the natural language query, generates the structured query using a natural language processing result for the natural language query, a schema relationship extracted based on a relationship between subdatabases in a database related to the natural language query, and a cross-attention result generated between the natural language processing result and the schema relationship.

Abstract: A method for generating and managing a 3D coordinate system based on a transmission delay with an O(N) overhead by calculating a transmission delay between large-scale P2P nodes may comprise: generating a coordinate system and setting a node located at an origin of the coordinate system as a block generation node; calculating coordinates of a new node when an additional transmission delay occurs in a process of measuring a transmission delay from the block generation node to another node and requesting coordinates; performing self-cross check in which the block generation node periodically calculates coordinates thereof again; and updating coordinates of nodes comprising the origin of the coordinate system by reflecting a change in a transmission delay between nodes according to a network state change, based on a result of the self-cross check.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the blood-brain barrier permeability, and more particularly, to a method for increasing the blood-brain barrier permeability, the method including: (S1) a step of delivering a nanogenerator carrying a nitric oxide (NO) donor to a site adjacent to the blood-brain barrier; (S2) a step of delivering a first triggering stimulus to an area where the nanogenerator has been delivered so as to release nitric oxide from the nanogenerator; and (S3) a step of allowing the released nitric oxide to activate matrix metallopeptidase-9 (MMP-9) and inducing the activated MMP-9 to weaken the tight junction between a cerebrovascular endothelial cell and another cerebrovascular endothelial cell.

Abstract: A memory device includes at least one semiconductor layer having a double PN junction, and an anode and a cathode which simultaneously contact the semiconductor layer, wherein a junction between the semiconductor layer and the anode is a Schottky junction, and a junction between the semiconductor layer and the cathode is an Ohmic junction. In addition, a capacitor-less memory device includes at least one semiconductor layer including a double PN junction, a control gate which contacts the semiconductor layer, and an anode and a cathode which simultaneously contact the semiconductor layer, wherein a junction between the semiconductor layer and the anode is a Schottky junction, and a junction between the semiconductor layer and the cathode is an Ohmic junction. Methods of operating the memory device and the capacitor-less memory device are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrochemical apparatus for monitoring flow rate including a membrane having a space that is formed in a middle portion of the membrane and has a preset volume to contain an ionic fluid, a first electrode and a second electrode provided on both sides of the membrane, and a control unit configured to apply a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode to change a state of the space to a concentration polarization state, wherein the membrane includes a fluid flow passage through which a fluid flows into and out of the space, and the control unit calculates a flow rate based on an ionic current generated by the fluid injected through the fluid flow passage in the concentration polarization state.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a bio-signal includes: a light source configured to emit light; an ultrasonic transducer configured to obtain a photoacoustic signal generated from an object; a photoacoustic coupler disposed in contact with the ultrasonic transducer and configured to direct the light transmitted from the light source to a scanner and to direct the photoacoustic signal generated from the object to the ultrasonic transducer; the scanner configured to reflect the light incident from the photoacoustic coupler to the object, and reflect the photoacoustic signal generated from the object to the photoacoustic coupler; a scanner controller configured to adjust a light incident position on the object by controlling the angle of the scanner; a light detector configured to obtain a light signal by detecting the light scattered or reflected from the object; and a processor configured to obtain bio-information based on the light signal and the photoacoustic signal.

Abstract: A scaffold comprising electrospun decellularized ECM of an organ, wherein the decellularized ECM has a similar protein composition to native ECM of the organ. Methods of generating same are also disclosed as well as uses of same.

Abstract: The inventive concept relates to method for encoding and decoding sparse codes and orthogonal sparse superposition codes. A sparse code encoding method which is to be performed by an encoding apparatus, according to an embodiment of the inventive concept may include selecting an index set that is a part of a code block by using an information bit, and mapping a codeword less than a preset size to the selected index set.