Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery, wherein the length of a second bending portion of a safety plate covering an extension portion of a cap-up can be adjusted to prevent deformation of the safety plate and improve the sealing force of the secondary battery, even when a crimping part having a flat upper structure in which the sealing force can deteriorate due to the low compression rate of an insulating gasket is used. For example, disclosed is a secondary battery comprising: a cylindrical can; an electrode assembly which, together with an electrolyte, is accommodated in the cylindrical can; a cap assembly coupled to an upper portion of the cylindrical can; and an insulating gasket interposed between the cap assembly and the cylindrical can. The cap assembly comprises: a cap-up; and a safety plate which is installed below the cap-up and has a second bending portion that surrounds an extension portion of an edge of the cap-up and covers a portion of the upper surface of the extension portion.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus for detecting a moment described by a sentence query in a video and a method using the same. A method for detecting a moment described by a sentence query in a video includes dividing an input video into units of chunks and generating a chunk-level feature sequence based on features that are extracted in a form of vectors from respective chunks, dividing an input sentence query into units of words and generating a sentence-level feature sequence based on features that are extracted in a form of vectors from respective words, generating a chunk-sentence relation feature sequence including contextual information of the video by extracting a relation between the chunk-level feature sequence and the sentence-level feature sequence, and estimating a temporal interval corresponding to the sentence query in the video based on the chunk-sentence relation feature sequence.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating bio-information includes a display including unit pixels, each of the unit pixels including light sources configured to emit light having different wavelengths, and detectors configured to detect light having the different wavelengths. The apparatus further includes a processor configured to determine source pixels configured to emit light onto an object, among the unit pixels, determine detector pixels configured to detect light that is scattered or reflected from the object, among the unit pixels, control the determined source pixels and the determined detector pixels to obtain a spectrum based on the light having multiple wavelengths that is detected by the detector pixels, and estimate bio-information, based on the obtained spectrum.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for face recognition robust to an alignment of the face comprising: estimating prior information of a facial shape from an input image cropped from an image including a face using the first deep neural network (DNN); extracting feature information of facial appearance from the input image by using a second DNN; training, by using a face image decoder based on the prior information and the feature information, the face recognition apparatus; and extracting, from a test image, facial shape-aware features in the inference step by using the trained second DNN.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for online action detection, the apparatus including a feature extraction unit configured to extract a chunk-level feature of a video chunk sequence of a streaming video, a filtering unit configured to perform filtering on the chunk-level feature, and an action classification unit configured to classify an action class using the filtered chunk-level feature.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting a garbage dumping action in real time on a video surveillance system are provided. A change region, which is a motion region, from an input image is detected, joint information including joint coordinates corresponding to a region in which joints exist is generated, and an object held by a person from the image using the change region and the joint information is detected. Then, an action of dumping the object based on a distance between the object and the joint coordinates is detected.

Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment disclosed herein may include a memory including at least one instruction and a processor. By executing the at least one instruction, the processor may check feature information corresponding to a video and including at least one of an appearance-related feature value and a motion-related feature value from the video, calculate at least one of a starting score related to a starting point of an action instance, an ending score related to an ending point of an action instance, and a relatedness score between action instances on the basis of the feature information corresponding to the video, the action instances being included in the video, and generate an action proposal included in the video on the basis of the at least one score.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are mammography device for X-ray photographing a breast and a method of photographing an object to be inspected using the same. The mammography device includes: a generator irradiating an X-ray; a detector facing the generator; a pressing pad moving between the generator and the detector to press an object to be inspected; a biological index deciding unit deciding a biological index of a subject; and a controller controlling a movement distance and a velocity of the pressing pad on the basis of the biological index decided in the biological index deciding unit.

Abstract: A domain adaptation-based object recognition apparatus includes a memory configured to store a domain adaptation-based object recognition program and a processor configured to execute the program. The processor learns a generative model for generating a feature or an image similar to a gallery image on the basis of domain adaptation in association with an input probe image and learns an object recognition classification model by using a learning database corresponding to the gallery image and the input probe image, thereby performing object recognition using the input probe image.

Abstract: Provided is a dynamic object detecting technique, and more specifically, a system and method for determining a state of a motion of a camera on the basis of a local motion estimated on the basis of a video captured by a dynamic camera and a result of analyzing a global motion, flexibly updating a background model according to the state of the motion of the camera, and flexibly detecting a dynamic object according to the state of the motion of the camera.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery capable of improving the coupling force between a safety vent and a cap-up. For example, disclosed is a secondary battery comprising: an electrode assembly; a case for accommodating the electrode assembly; a cap assembly coupled to the upper part of the case; and a gasket interposed between the cap assembly and the case, wherein the cap assembly includes a cap-up and a safety vent, which is provided at the lower part of the cap-up and has a vent extension part extending to the upper part of the cap-up so as to encompass the edge of the cap-up, a welding region, in which the safety vent and the cap-up are welded and coupled by laser welding, is formed in the vent extension part, and the welding region is formed in a line shape.

Abstract: A packing tray for a rechargeable battery is disclosed. In one aspect, the tray includes a bottom portion and an inner wall connected to the bottom portion. The bottom portion and the inner wall define a receiving space configured to receive a battery cell. The inner wall includes upper and lower portions. The lower portion extends upwardly, and the upper portion is outwardly curved such that the upper portion is wider than the lower portion.

Abstract: Smart glasses for selectively tracking a target of visual cognition according to the present invention include a first camera configured to capture a first input image that is a first-person view image of a user, a second camera configured to capture a second input image containing sight line information of the user, a display configured to output additional information corresponding to the first input image, a memory configured to store a program for selectively tracking a target of visual cognition on the basis of the first and second input images, and a processor configured to execute the program stored in the memory, wherein upon executing the program, the processor is configured to detect the target of visual cognition from the first input image and determine, from the second input image, whether the user is in an inattentive state with respect to the target of visual cognition.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate including a first electrode tab, a second electrode plate including a second electrode tab, and a separator interposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, a case accommodating the electrode assembly, and a cap assembly covering a top portion of the case. Any one of the first electrode tab and the second electrode tab includes a multi-layer clad electrode tab including two copper (Cu) layers.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting a garbage dumping action in real time on a video surveillance system are provided. A change region, which is a motion region, from an input image is detected, joint information including joint coordinates corresponding to a region in which joints exist is generated, and an object held by a person from the image using the change region and the joint information is detected. Then, an action of dumping the object based on a distance between the object and the joint coordinates is detected.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a video interpretation apparatus and method. The video interpretation apparatus includes an object information generation unit for generating object information based on objects in an input video, a relation generation unit for generating a dynamic spatial relation between the objects based on the object information, a general event information generation unit for generating general event information based on the dynamic spatial relation, a video information generation unit for generating video information including any one of a sentence and an event description based on the object information and the general event information, and a video descriptor storage unit for storing the object information, the general event information, and the video information.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a query input apparatus and method. The query input apparatus includes: an input unit providing a graphic user interface (GUI) to receive a schematized composite activity that a user wants to search from the user; and a processing unit generating a query using an activity descriptor corresponding to the schematized composite activity depending on a query request from an activity searching system and transferring the generated query to the activity searching system.

Abstract: Provided is a dynamic object detecting technique, and more specifically, a system and method for determining a state of a motion of a camera on the basis of a local motion estimated on the basis of a video captured by a dynamic camera and a result of analyzing a global motion, flexibly updating a background model according to the state of the motion of the camera, and flexibly detecting a dynamic object according to the state of the motion of the camera.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mammography device for X-ray photographing an object to be inspected. The mammography device includes: a device body movable in a vertical axis direction and rotatable around a first horizontal axis; a generator fixed to one end portion of the device body; a support part for the object including a detector; a first moving unit moving the device body in the vertical axis direction; a rotating unit rotating the device body around the first horizontal axis; and a controller controlling the first moving unit and the rotating unit, wherein the controller performs a control so that the rotating unit rotates the device body and the first moving unit moves the device body together with the rotation of the device body in order to position a center of an upper surface of the support part for the object on the same horizontal surface.

Abstract: A system for generating a multimedia knowledge base uses a multimedia information detection unit to detect texted meta information from multimedia data including at least one combination of a text, a voice, an image and a video and allows a knowledge base shaping unit to use the texted meta information and context information of the multimedia data to divide the multimedia data into syntactic information representing extrinsic configuration information and semantic information representing intrinsic meaning information and may shape the syntactic information and the semantic information into the multimedia knowledge.