• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.734-741
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• 2020

This article proposes a new pedestrian avoidance algorithm for social robots that coexist and communicate with humans and do not induce stress caused by invasion of psychological safety distance(Social Distance). To redefine the pedestrian model, pedestrians are clustered according to the pedestrian's gait characteristics(straightness, speed) and a social distance is defined for each pedestrian cluster. After modeling pedestrians(obstacles) with the social distances, integrated navigation algorithm is completed by applying the newly defined pedestrian model to commercial obstacle avoidance and path planning algorithms. To show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, two commercial obstacle avoidance & path planning algorithms(the Dynamic Window Approach (DWA) algorithm and the Timed Elastic Bands (TEB) algorithm) are used. Four cases were experimented in applying and non-applying the new pedestrian model, respectively. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce the stress index of pedestrians without loss of traveling time.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.11-18
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• 2022

The use of multi-spectral cameras is essential for day and night pedestrian detection. In this paper, a color camera and a thermal imaging infrared camera were used to detect pedestrians near a crosswalk for 24 hours at an intersection with a high risk of traffic accidents. For pedestrian detection, the YOLOv5 object detector was used, and the detection performance was improved by using color images and thermal images at the same time. The proposed system showed a high performance of 0.940 mAP in the day/night multi-spectral (color and thermal image) pedestrian dataset obtained from the actual crosswalk site.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.439-448
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• 2016

The population over 65 years old is 12.7% of total population in 2014 and Korea is going to be an aged society in the near future. The transportation vulnerable including the aged should be guaranteed in walking mobility under safe and comfortable environment for their socio-economic activities. For the era of fusion and convergence this paper investigated the characteristics of walking accidents related to the aged pedestrians and analyzed the aged-oriented walking factors with a reaction time and a walking speed at crosswalks in Yeosu. In the results, the crashes for the aged occur at 9.9% of total crashes and the fatalities of the aged are 40.3% of total fatalities in 2014. The 47.4% of the aged fatalities is also attributed to vehicle-to-pedestrian accidents. The 49.3% of all pedestrian fatalities occurs at the aged pedestrians with a very high proportion. The reaction time and walking speed for the aged were determined as the values located at the lower 15%-tile of the elderly physical ability. It is shown that the reaction time is 4.56 seconds and the walking speed is 0.76 m/s in the case of Yeosu. From two factors' standpoint, the walking environment at crosswalks in Yeosu is inappropriate for the aged.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.01a
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• pp.267-268
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• 2017

인류는 이동수단의 발전으로 많은 편리함을 누리고 있다. 그러나 발전하는 만큼 대기오염의 문제도 증가하고 있다. 이를 해결하기위해 친환경 자동차가 대안으로 떠오르고 있으나, 저속주행시의 엔진음이 미세하여 좁은길이나 골목길 에서의 보행자 교통사고가 증가하고 있다. 이를 해결하기위해 VESS가 개발되었다. 본 논문에서는 보행자 청각 특성을 고려한 가상 엔진음 설계를 제안하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 보행자 사고 예방 및 생명과 재산보호에 도움이 되길 바란다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.143-144
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• 2016

본 논문은 보행자의 각 발에 부착된 2개의 IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit) 정보를 융합하여 위치 추적 성능을 향상시키는 보행자 추측 항법 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 센서내의 방향드리프트로 인해 IMU기반 보행자 위치추적은 시간이 지남에 따라 성능이 크게 저하된다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 방향 드리프트로 인해 각 발의 이동경로가 발산하는 점에 착안하여, 보폭이 일정 값을 초과할 시 이를 보정하고 사용자의 위치를 계산한다. 실험을 통해 제안하는 알고리즘이 방향 드리프트를 효과적으로 감소시키는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.7-8
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• 2010

Due to development of wireless environment and portable device, it is possible to use navigation out of car. Specially, pedestrians can freely walk openspace, so there are limits that we use network data of car navigation systems for pedestrian navigation systems. Therefore, in this paper, we proposed the method of generating network data for pedestrians based on the exiting spatial data sets.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.189-197
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationships between the traffic accidents of elderly pedestrians and barrier-free facilities in the case of Cheongju. First, many accidents of elderly pedestrians were determined to occur in the road and during crossing. Second, the correlation analysis shows that the paving conditions, guiding blocks and embossed blocks have impacts on elderly safety. Finally, the logistic regression model, which is statistically significant (chi-square =0.000, Nagelkerke =0.198), was developed, and includes the paving conditions, bollards, audible signals and remaining time signs as the independent variables. The variables, with the exception of the existence of bollards, are all analyzed to have positive impacts to elderly safety.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.133-142
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• 2010

Many pedestrian or fire evacuation models have been studied last decades for modeling evacuation behaviors or analysing building structures under emergency situations. However, currently developed models do not consider the differences of visibility of pedestrians by obstacles such as furniture, wall, etc. The visibility of pedestrians is considered one of the important factors that affect the evacuation behavior, leading to making simulation results more realistic. In order to incorporate pedestrian's visibility into evacuation simulation, we should be able to give different walking speeds according to differences of visibility. We improved the existing floor field model based on cellular automata in order to implement the visibility. Using the space syntax theory, we showed how we split the indoor spaces depending on the different visibilities created by different levels of structural depths. Then, we improved the algorithm such that pedestrians have different speeds instead of simultaneous movement to other cells. Also, in order for developing a real time simulation system integrated w ith indoor sensors later, we present a process to build a 3D simulator using a spatial DBMS. The proposed algorithm is tested using a campus building.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.69-79
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• 2014

This paper proposes the Collision Prevention System based on Fuzzy which reasons a risk with the location information of vehicles and pedestrians and prevents collision between vehicles, and between a vehicle and a pedestrian with the reasoned risk. The proposed system provides three functions. First, it identifies a pedestrian's location with his smart phone and a vehicle's location with the GPS equipped in the vehicle. and transfers the identified information to their neighbors. Second, it makes a vehicle and a pedestrian reason a risk by considering a moving direction, a moving speed and road information. Third, it provides a vehicle and a pedestrian with the reasoned information such as route detour, speed reduction, etc. Therefore, the proposed collision prevention system based on Fuzzy not only prevents collision accidents beforehand by reasoning a risk, but also reduces a variety of losses by protecting traffic accident and congestion.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.37-49
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• 2015

In Space Syntax, the greater the degree of integration between separate links, the greater the links' accessibility from the target network. As such, planning pedestrian walks so that links with high degrees of integration are connected, or else inducing high integration value land use are both valid options. The travel distribution model reflects how walking demand, or more specifically, the pedestrian, partakes in route choosing behavior that minimizes select criteria, notably level of discomfort, as measured using travel distance and time. The model thus demonstrates travel patterns associated with demand pertaining to minimization of discomfort experienced by the pedestrian. This research introduces a method that integrates Space Syntax and the pedestrian travel distribution model. The integrated model will determine whether regions with high degrees of integration are actually being used as pivots for pedestrian demand movement, as well as to explain whether the degree of integration is sustained at an appropriate level while considering actual movement demand. As a means to develop the integrated model, a method that combines display of the visibility of the space syntax network and road-divided links is proposed. The pedestrian travel distribution model also includes an alternative path finding mechanism between origin and destination, which allows for uniform allocation of demand.