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Reliable channel estimation is critical for achieving high-speed and energy-efficient communication in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Free Space Optical (UAV-FSO) systems, particularly under dynamic impairments such as atmospheric turbulence (AT) and pointing errors (PEs). This paper proposes a pilot-free channel estimation framework based on a Variational Autoencoder (VAE). The system employs Intensity Modulation/Direct Detection (IM/DD) with?-ary one-hot encoded symbols (). The VAE encodes noisy received signals into a 128-dimensional latent space and reconstructs the transmitted data, effectively learning the joint effects of AT, PEs, and AWGN. Unlike prior works that primarily consider boresight or Gaussian-jitter PEs, this study explicitly incorporates a Nakagami-modeled PE distribution, capturing UAV-induced beam misalignment under mobility, vibration, and turbulence coupling. Simulation results show that the proposed VAE significantly outperforms conventional estimators (LS, MMSE, LMMSE) and deep learning baselines (AE, DNN, CNN) across various turbulence strengths. Under strong turbulence and PEs, the VAE attains nearly two-fold lower MSE compared to CNN and DNN. In addition, evaluation on real turbulence-impaired datasets further validates robustness and generalization. The proposed pilot-free scheme delivers accurate channel estimation, reduced BER, and improved spectral efficiency, making it suitable for real-time adaptive UAV-FSO communication.

GAN(Generative Adversarial Networks)이 합성 이미지 생성 및 기타 다양한 응용 프로그램에 현재 사용되고 있지만, 생성 모델을 제어하기가 어렵다. 문제는 생성 모델의 잠재 공간에 있는데, 이미지 생성과 관련하여 입력된 잠재 코드를 받아 특정 텍스트 및 신호에 따라 지정된 대상 속성이 향상되도록 하고 다른 속성은 크게 영향을 받지 않도록 하기 위해서는 상당한 제약이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 이미지 생성 및 조작과 관련하여 변동 자동 인코더의 잠재 벡터 에 관해 특정 제약을 수반한 모델을 제안한다. 제안된 모델에 관해 TensorFlow의 변동 자동 인코더를 통해 실험한 결과 이미지의 생성 및 조작과 관련하여 비교적 우수한 성능을 갖는 것으로 확인된다.

Recent research shows that latent directions can be used to image process towards certain attributes. However, controlling the generation process of generative model is very difficult. Though the latent directions are used to image process for certain attributes, many restrictions are required to enhance the attributes received the latent vectors according to certain text and prompts and other attributes largely unaffected. This study presents a generative model having certain restriction to the latent vectors for image generation and manipulation. The suggested method requires only few minutes per manipulation, and the simulation results through Tensorflow Variational Auto-encoder show the effectiveness of the suggested approach with extensive results.

Intelligent tutoring system enables users to effectively learn by utilizing various artificial intelligence techniques. For instance, it can recommend a proper curriculum or learning method to individual users based on their learning history. To do this effectively, user's characteristics need to be analyzed and classified based on various aspects such as interest, learning ability, and personality. Even though data labeled by the characteristics are required for more accurate classification, it is not easy to acquire enough amount of labeled data due to the labeling cost. On the other hand, unlabeled data should not need labeling process to make a large number of unlabeled data be collected and utilized. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised learning method based on feedback variational auto-encoder(FVAE), which uses both labeled data and unlabeled data. FVAE is a variation of variational auto-encoder(VAE), where a multi-layer perceptron is added for giving feedback. Using unlabeled data, we train FVAE and fetch the encoder of FVAE. And then, we extract features from labeled data by using the encoder and train classifiers with the extracted features. In the experiments, we proved that FVAE-based semi-supervised learning was superior to VAE-based method in terms with accuracy and F1 score.

딥러닝의 급속한 발전은 패턴인식 분야의 성능을 혁신했으며 몇몇 문제에서는 인간 수준을 넘어서는 결과들을 보여주고 있다. 데이타를 분류하는 패턴인식과 달리 본 논문에서는 주어진 몇개의 한국어 문장으로부터 비슷한 문장들을 생성하는 문제를 다룬다. 이를위해 생성모델 중의 하나인 Variational Auto-Encoder 기반의 모델을 한국어 생성에 맞게 개선하고 적용하는 방법들을 논의한다. 첫째, 교착어인 한국어의 특성상 띄어쓰기를 기준으로 단어 생성시 단어의 개수가 너무 많아 이를 줄이기 위해 조사 및 어미들을 분리할 필요가 있다. 둘째, 한국어는 어순이 비교적 자유롭고 주어 목적어 등이 생략되는 경우가 많아 기존의 단방향 인코더를 양방향으로 확장한다. 마지막으로, 주어진 문장들을 기반으로 비슷하지만 새로운 문장들을 생성하기 위해 기존 문장들의 인코딩된 벡터표현들로부터 새로운 벡터를 찾아내고, 이 벡터를 디코딩하여 문장을 생성한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안한 방법의 성능을 확인한다.

Due to the revolutionary advances in deep learning, performance of pattern recognition has increased significantly in many applications like speech recognition and image recognition, and some systems outperform human-level intelligence in specific domains. Unlike pattern recognition, in this paper, we focus on generating Korean sentences based on a few Korean sentences. We apply variational recurrent auto-encoder (VRAE) and modify the model considering some characteristics of Korean sentences. To reduce the number of words in the model, we apply a word spacing model. Also, there are many Korean sentences which have the same meaning but different word order, even without subjects or objects; therefore we change the unidirectional encoder of VRAE into a bidirectional encoder. In addition, we apply an interpolation method on the encoded vectors from the given sentences, so that we can generate new sentences which are similar to the given sentences. In experiments, we confirm that our proposed method generates better sentences which are semantically more similar to the given sentences.