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Specialists diagnose skin cancer using a dermatoscopy to detect skin cancer as early as possible, but it is difficult to determine accurate skin lesions because skin lesions have various shapes. Recently, the skin lesion segmentation method using deep learning, which has shown high performance, has a problem in segmenting skin lesions because the boundary between healthy skin and skin lesions is not clear. To solve these issues, the proposed method constructs a transformer block to effectively segment the skin lesion, and constructs an edge decoder for each layer of the network to segment the skin lesion in detail. Experiment results have shown that the proposed method achieves a performance improvement of 0.041 ~ 0.071 for Dic Coefficient and 0.062 ~ 0.112 for Jaccard Index, compared with the previous method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Incremental Theory of Diffraction (ITD) is an incremental theory technique to calculate the diffracted field of a complex object in which the stationary phase condition is not well-established. In this study, the incremental diffraction contribution is ignored and the physical optics (PO) endpoint contribution is considered when calculating the bistatic radar cross-section (RCS) for the observation point corresponding to the inner region of the edge using the ITD. Accordingly, we applied shooting and bouncing rays and ITD to the trigonal prism and circular disk and verified the proposed ITD method by comparing with the results of the method of moment and the conventional ITD implemented in the IDS’s Viraf. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As embedded system are used widely and variously, multi-edge system, which multiple edges gather and perform complex operations together, is actively operating. In a multi-edge system, it often occurs that an abnormal operation at one edge is transferred to another edge or the entire system goes down. It is necessary to determine and control edge anomalies in order to prevent system down, but this can be a heavy burden on the resource-limited edge. As a solution to this, we use power consumption data to check the state of the edge device and transmit it based on a QRcode to check and control errors at the server. The architecture proposed in this paper is implemented using 'chip-whisperer' to measure the power consumption of the edge and 'Raspberry Pi 3' to implement the server. As a result, the proposed architecture server showed successful data transmission and error determination without additional load appearing at the edge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most important tasks in image processing is noise filtering. Noise removal in image is a difficult task due to many reasons such as nonstationary sequences and corrupted by various types of noise. Human’s visual perception is heavily based on the edge information. Thus, noise filtering must preserve edges. To remove the noise, we usually use the square-shaped median filter. They possess mathematical simplicity but have the disadvantages that blur the edges. In this paper we consider a new technique for image restoration using a weighted octagonal median filter. The technique consists of simple hypothesis test for edge detection, and we use the weighted octagonal-shaped moving window. The new technique is applied to noise corrupted image and experimental results are compared to the results of the square-shaped median filter and the cross-shaped median filter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes new microstrip directional couplers with high directivity using current path detour to compensate for unequal even- and odd-mode phase velocities in the U-NII upper band (5.725～5.850 GHz). The proposed method involves matching the phase velocities of even and odd modes by designing a longer current path for the odd mode, whose phase velocity is faster than that of the even mode. The proposed idea is demonstrated by the design of two directional couplers: one is a directional coupler with triangular edges on each side of the coupling area, and the other is a coupler with circular patterns in the coupling gap. The measurement results of the proposed two directional couplers exhibited an isolation of more than 38.6 dB and 46.0 dB, respectively, and a directivity of more than 25.7 dB and 29.7 dB, respectively. Compared to the conventional structures, the directivity of the proposed structures was enhanced by more than 10.8 dB and 14.8 dB, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paradigm of Internet-of-things(IoT) systems is changing from a cloud-based system to an edge-based system to solve delays caused by network congestion, server overload and security issues due to data transmission. However, edge-based IoT systems have fatal weaknesses such as lack of performance and flexibility due to various limitations. To improve performance, application-specific hardware can be implemented in the edge device, but performance cannot be improved except for specific applications due to a fixed function. This paper introduces a edge-centric metamorphic IoT(mIoT) platform that can use a variety of hardware through on-demand partial reconfiguration despite the limited hardware resources of the edge device, so we can increase the performance and flexibility of the edge device. According to the experimental results, the edge-centric mIoT platform that executes the reconfiguration algorithm at the edge was able to reduce the number of server accesses by up to 82.2% compared to previous studies in which the reconfiguration algorithm was executed on the server. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Histogram H is an x-monotone rectilinear polygon with a horizontal edge, called by a base, connecting the leftmost vertical edge and the rightmost vertical edge. Here the rectilinear polygon is a polygon with only horizontal and vertical edges and the x-monotone polygon P is a polygon in which every line orthogonal to the x-axis intersects P at most twice. Walking counterclockwise on the boundary of a histogram H yields a sequence of left turns and right turns at its vertices. Conversely, a given sequence of the turns at the vertices can be realized by a histogram. In this paper, we consider the problem of finding a histogram to realize a given turn sequence. Particularly, we will find the histograms to minimize its area and its bounding box. It will be shown that both of the problems can be solved by linear time algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the IoT is applied to home and industrial networks, data generated by the IoT is being processed at the cloud edge. Intrusion detection function is very important because it can be operated by invading IoT devices through the cloud edge. Data delivered to the edge network in the cloud environment is traffic at the application layer. In order to determine the intrusion of the packet transmitted to the IoT, the intrusion should be detected at the application layer. This paper proposes the intrusion detection function at the application layer excluding normal traffic from IoT intrusion detection function. As the proposed method, we obtained the intrusion detection result by decision tree method and explained the detection result for each feature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]