• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.93-100
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• 2022

Korea's ancestral culture has limited travel and contact due to Corona (COVID-19). In addition, Korean ancestral culture meets in person to commemorate the deceased. In this paper, we propose a non-face-to-face metaverse memorial platform service that can commemorate the deceased and perform ancestral rites in the cyber world (virtual reality) by applying the metaverse technology. The services proposed in the study consisted of a remembrance hall that displays the life story of the deceased, a ancestral hall that conducts ancestral rites for the deceased, and a deceased pavilion that checks the remains and wills of the deceased. In addition, the virtual reality device (HMD: Head Mounted Display) set the teleportation and content resolution to 4K to minimize dizziness. In particular, the priests applied interaction technology to provide an immersive service for ancestral rites between family members. The researched memorial hall metaverse service is a metaverse-based platform service that allows anyone to commemorate the deceased as a family unit in a non-face-to-face state rather than face-to-face.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.459-467
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• 2011

Rehabilitation exercises must maintain a patient's interest and permit a quantitative evaluation of the rehabilitation. We have developed a haptic-device system. When users move a grip, the haptic device provides a virtual force that either assists the movement of their arm or working against it. To investigate the functional effect of this system in a rehabilitation program, we used for five subjects with motor-function disorders and measured the grip position, velocity, force exerted on the grip, and EMG activities during a reaching task of one subject. The accuracy of the grip position, velocity and trajectories patterns were similar for all the subjects. The results suggested that the EMG activities were improved by applying the virtual force to the grip. These results can be used for the development of rehabilitation programs and evaluation methods.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.57-67
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• 2014

In the last decade, various situations were simulated through virtual environment due to rapid improvement of computer capability and technology. Transportation engineering also has adopted the virtual environment facility in order to identify drivers behaviour under various circumstances. This study aims to evaluate driver reactions to the introduction of new ITS interventions at railway crossings (RLX) in driving simulator. Three ITS safety devices were used to figure out how drivers reacted to them. In addition, a survey was conducted to find participants' work load and acceptance of the technology. The ultimate purpose of this paper is to evaluate ITS safety devices in various aspects. Each participant made 3 runs (2 baselines, 1 ITS randomly) for approximately 20 minutes each. The participants answered that current railway crossings did not look safe prior to experiment. They responded that the use of ITS technologies were easy and the technologies were more effective on passive railway crossings.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.1
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• pp.11-22
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• 2004

As random access memory chip gets cheaper, it becomes affordable to realize main memory-based database systems. Consequently, reducing cache misses emerges as the most important issue in current main memory databases, in which CPU speeds have been increasing at 60% per year, compared to the memory speeds at 10% per you. In this paper, we design and implement a main-memory database system for real-time mobile GIS. Our system is composed of 5 modules： the interface manager provides the interface for PDA users； the memory data manager controls spatial and non-spatial data in main-memory using virtual memory techniques； the query manager processes spatial and non-spatial query : the index manager manages the MR-tree index for spatial data and the T-tree index for non-spatial index : the GIS server interface provides the interface with disk-based GIS. The MR-tree proposed propagates node splits upward only if one of the internal nodes on the insertion path has empty space. Thus, the internal nodes of the MR-tree are almost 100% full. Our experimental study shows that the two-dimensional MR-tree performs search up to 2.4 times faster than the ordinary R-tree. To use virtual memory techniques, the memory data manager uses page tables for spatial data, non- spatial data, T-tree and MR-tree. And, it uses indirect addressing techniques for fast reloading from disk.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.29-35
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• 2001

In general, image-based virtual environment is represented by panoramic images created by image mosaic algorithm. The cylindrical panoramic image supports the fixed-viewpoint navigation due to the constraints of construction. Shum proposed concentric mosaics to allow users to navigate freely within a circular area[10]. It is constructed by a sequence of images which is acquired from a regularly rotating camera. Concentric mosaics technique, proposed by Shum, is considered as 3D plenoptic function which is defined three parameters : distance, height and angle. In this paper, we suggest an effective method for creating concentric mosaics, in which we first align a set of strip images on the cylinder plane and stitch the aligned strips to build a panoramic image. The proposed method has no constraints such as regular panning motion of camera. Furthermore, our proposed method minimizes the use of interpolation image to create a novel view images from the concentric mosaics. It allows the result image on a novel view to have better quality with respect to the number of input images.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.137-147
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• 2007

Projection-based augmented reality (AR) system refers to the system that accurately project high quality virtual information at the user-specified area by using the projector. Most of projection-based AR systems use the display device to support high quality and wide screen for increasing the user-immersion. Furthermore, they are implemented on the desktop environment due to the computational complexity. However, these projection-based AR systems are not suited as a mobile system and thus it may be inconvenient in the user point of view. Fortunately, Miniaturization of projectors and improved capacity of the mobile processor allowed the mobile AR system to be convenient. The limitation of established mobile AR system is that it uses small display screen which does not support high-resolutions and thus it may reduce the user-immersion into the system. In this paper, we propose portable projection-based display system, which overcomes the limitations of both projection-based and mobile-based AR systems. We have conducted the user evaluation to verify the effectiveness and the utmost capacity of the system.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.65-71
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• 2015

In this paper, we present binocular augmented reality system with smartphones. With improvements of performance and resolution of recent smartphones, various virtual reality devices using smartphones and applications are appearing in the market. But the augmented reality system with smartphones are not that popular because of the lack of required technologies. In our work, we discuss about 3D mapping and tracking using computer vision. Also, we provide hybrid tracking using sensors in the smartphone which can handle the computer vision failure cases. Bare hand 3D interaction method in our system will be also presented.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.124-129
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• 2006

음악은 소리를 즐긴다는 뜻을 담고 있다. 감상자에게 단순한 청각적 자극을 넘어 즐거움을 주기 위해선 음악적인 경험이 뒷받침되어야 한다. 가상 현실을 이용한 사용자와 시스템 간의 상호작용을 음악 경험 제공에 접목하려는 시도는, 새로운 경험을 통해 일반인들이 보다 쉽게 음악을 접하고 체험함으로써 음악을 통해 즐거움을 얻을 수 있도록 도움을 주는 데에 그 목적이 있다. 가상 오케스트라를 구현하고 지휘 동작을 재현하는 것은 이러한 가능성을 극대화하는 연구이다. 본 논문에서는 가상 오케스트라를 구현하기 위해 필수적인 중간 단계로, 사용자의 지휘 동작을 감지하여 연주의 박자(속도)를 제어하는 지휘 시뮬레이션 시스템을 제시한다. 실제의 지휘 동작을 분석하고, 동작의 변화를 인식하기 위하여 가속도 센서를 이용, 공간상에서 지휘봉의 움직임을 가속도 정보로 수집하여 이에 상응하는 박자의 제어를 구현한다. 사용자의 박자 명시에 따라 변화하는 상하 방향의 가속도를 센서를 통해 전압 신호로 입력 받고, DSP 의 A/D conversion 모듈에서 디지털 신호로 변환, 일정 수준 이상의 신호를 박자 정보로 직렬통신을 통해 컴퓨터에 전달한다. 컴퓨터에서는 Max/MSP를 이용하여 각 박자 사이의 시간 간격을 측정하고 상응하는 MIDI 음악을 재생하는 방식으로 시스템이 구현된다. 기존 연구에서 사용된 CCD 카메라에 의한 Motion Tracking 을 보완하여 동작의 크기에 따라 음량을 조절한다. 본 논문에서 제시되는 시스템은 지휘 동작에서 가장 특징적으로 나타나는 상하 방향의 급격한 가속도 변화를 직접 입력 받기 때문에 기존 시스템에 비해 지휘 동작의 인식 성공률을 높일 수 있으며, 화상 처리 및 계산에 의한 지연을 최소화할 수 있다. 또한, 장치의 규모를 소형화하여 보다 지휘봉의 형태에 가까운 인터페이스를 제공하며, 적합한 응용 콘텐츠를 접목할 경우 게임 컨트롤러로의 발전 가능성이 있다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.617-625
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• 2022

This study attempted to compare and analyze metaverse platforms according to their functions. The five metaverse platform was selected and comparatively analyzed through in-depth interviews with experts. As a result of the research, first, Roblox allows you to create and customize your own avatar, provides studio functions for free, and allows you to enjoy private games with friends. Second, Zepeto can create an avatar with one selfie and provides a creative studio function. Third, in Fortnite, it is possible to create in-game characters, purchase and wear items provided in the game, and play games with friends in Creative Mode. Fourth, in Gather Town, networking with users in virtual space is possible, and your own avatar customization and desired virtual space template are provided. Finally, Facebook Horizon participates in the virtual world Horizon with its own avatar that you decorate yourself, and it can function as a world builder, and you can set up a billboard in virtual reality or a virtual store. The value of this study provided a theoretical basis that can be applied to the future industry through the characteristics of the metaverse platform.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.163-173
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new paradigm of augmented reality board game environment and a portable game assistant(PGA) which can help gamers with strategy information. Previous AR board games consist of a private and public space. The public space provides rules of the game and shows the scene of game. And the gamers control game pieces in the public space. The previous games use the RFIDs for recognizing positions of the pieces, and the VR/AR environment for providing the scene of the game. However the RFIDs are expansive, and the VR/AR environment is inconvenient because it uses additional devices: the DataGlove, the digital pen, and the HMD. The proposed system recognizes positions of real pieces using the computer vision technique, and uses a monitor to provide dynamic effects. In the private space, previous systems provide entire screen of game and position of specific pieces, but cannot be controled the pieces by gamers. Therefore, in this system, we provide PGA that helps the user to plan of the strategy individually using universally mobile. The PGA helps to plan the strategy in the individual area, and to play easily in the side of the user's convenience.