• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a reconstruction technique of the lost hair region for 3D human actor modeling. An active depth sensor system can simultaneously capture both color and geometry information of any objects in real-time. However, it cannot acquire some regions whose surfaces are shiny and dark. Therefore, to get a natural 3D human model, the lost region in depth image should be recovered, especially human hair region. The recovery is performed using both color and depth images. We find out the hair region using color image first. After the boundary of hair region is estimated, the inside of hair region is estimated using an interpolation technique and closing operation. A 3D mesh model is generated after performing a series of operations including adaptive sampling, triangulation, mesh smoothing, and texture mapping. The proposed method can generate recovered 3D mesh stream automatically. The final 3D human model allows the user view interaction or haptic interaction in realistic broadcasting system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.119-124
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• 2010

디지털 제작, 압축 기술의 발전, 유무선 인터넷 보급 확산, 다양한 전송 및 서비스 플랫폼의 등장, 전송 기술의 광대역화, 단말 기술의 발전, 라이프스타일 변화와 킬러 서비스 등장으로 미디어 시장은 급속도로 발전하고 있다. 지상파 방송은 아날로그에서 디지털로 전환하고 있으며, 고화질, 다채널, 모바일, 3D 서비스를 제공하거나 제공할 예정에 있다. 현재 디지털 TV는 아날로그 TV와 동시 방송 형태로 제공되고 있지만 2012년말 디지털 TV로 완전한 전환을 앞두고 있으며, 모바일 TV인 DMB는 2005년말 본방송을 시작하여 전국 서비스를 제공하고 방송 커버리지를 확장하고 있다. FM과 AM의 디지털화를 위한 디지털 오디오 방송도 방식 선정을 위한 절차가 진행 중이다. 전파는 송신소에서 단말까지 전송되는 도중 신호레벨 감쇠, 페이딩, 왜곡, 잡음 유입 등을 겪게 된다. 양질의 지상파 방송을 제공하기 위해서는 전파가 수신 가능한 상태 이상의 양호한 상태로 시청자에게 전달되어야 한다. 이를 위해 방송사는 방송 수신 품질을 측정하고 수신이 불량한 지역에 대해서는 송신기 설치, 송신 출력 증강, 중계기 설치 등을 통해 양질의 서비스 제공이 가능한 방송 서비스 영역을 확대한다. 다양한 지상파 방송 매체에서 수신 품질 평가를 위해 가장 많이 측정하는 항목은 전계강도이다. 대부분의 경우 어떤 지역의 전계강도가 해당 매체가 요구하는 기준 레벨 이상이면 해당 지역을 양호 지역으로 평가한다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 지상파 방송 매체에 대한 전계강도를 측정하고 이를 분석할 수 있는 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 제안 시스템을 이용하면 자동화된 절차에 의해 최단 시간에 다양한 지역에 대한 방송 수신 품질을 측정하고, 그 결과를 분석하여 방송 서비스 영역에 대한 평가를 내릴 수 있으며, 측정결과를 DB로 관리하여 동일 채널에 대한 이전 측정결과와 비교 분석, 다른 채널과 전계강도 비교 분석을 통해 특정 송신기 출력이 감소되거나 특정 안테나 출력에 문제가 발생한 경우에도 이를 쉽게 감지하여 최적의 방송망 구축 및 관리가 가능하다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.10
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• pp.875-880
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• 2013

When we generate 3D video that provides immersive and realistic feeling to users, depth information of the scene is essential. Since the resolution of the depth map captured by a depth sensor is lower than of the color image, we need to upsample the low-resolution depth map for high-resolution 3D video generation. In this paper, we propose a depth upsampling method using depth-discontinuity information. Using the high-resolution color image and the low-resolution depth map, we detect depth-discontinuity regions. Then, we define an energy function for the depth map upsampling and optimize it using the belief propagation method. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms other depth upsampling methods in terms of the bad pixel rate.

• Trans-
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• v.5
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• pp.29-48
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• 2018

This study examines the popularization strategy of domestic dance field through media platform and examines it based on the interaction of cultural participants. What does popularization of dance ultimately mean? What are the characteristics of media-based popularization strategies? Can all of these attempts be understood as popularization strategy with same attributes? The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of broadcasting media, which are used as the main medium of dance popularization strategy, and the online platform that recently attracts attention, and to focus on the communication process of cultural participants related to each media. Through this approach, media based activities turns out to be Mass Culture, controlled by businessman, capital, making it impossible for the creator to communicate directly with the audience, and producing the cultural products planned by the businessman. On the other hand, an online community platform is classified as Popular Culture since it allows creator to communicate and interact with audience without the direct involvement of the businessman and guarantees the rights of creation. Thereby it function as appropriate media platform and expand the discourse on popularization of dance in Korea.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.251-263
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• 2012

Edutainment refers to the form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse. It typically seeks to instruct its audience by embedding messages or educational contents in some familiar form of entertainment such as computer games, films, websites, multimedia software, etc. The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of attitude toward online game-based edutainment. This study proposes the attitude, fun, usefulness, social interaction, challenge, and educational story as major research variables, and collected the survey responses from game players having experiences with online game-based edutainment. Factor analysis confirmed that 19 questions can be categorized into 6 factors : attitude, fun, usefulness, social interaction, challenge, and educational story. Regression analysis shows that fun, usefulness and educational story significantly and directly affect the attitude toward these edutainment games, and that educational story influences the level of usefulness. In addition, challenge and social interaction were found to have significant impact on fun. In conclusion, the wider implications of the findings for utilizing online game-based edutainment are provided.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.7-14
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• 2016

This study analyzes popular channels of America's Twitch TV that centers on video game among several Internet broadcasting services. Afreeca TV de facto monopolizes the Internet broadcasting industry in South Korea; however, Twitch TV is popular around the globe and tries to expand business in Korea. Specifically, this study collects data of popular domestic/international channels on every Friday 9:00 p.m. 20 times, and examines differences of between those channels: 1) the number of the audience(users) 2) the frequency of games 3) the genre of games 4) nationality of games. Internet broadcasting streaming service does not have a concept of ratings, but it could be categorized as popular based on users connecting the channels. Thus, this study studies characteristics of Twitch TV, and further discusses the future of the Internet broadcasting.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.61-67
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• 2020

The game has several genres. Actions, RPGs, FPS, and simulations are diverse, and the game that flows around the story is a game genre that feels like watching a movie on the other. Internet game broadcasters can be thought of as playing a movie in a movie theater when they broadcast a story-type game. The difference with the movie theater is that you can get involved in the story by showing your play directly to viewers. As a broadcasting material, story-type games are a good means, but the fact that the story is published on the Internet in terms of game publishers can have a negative impact on sales revenue as viewers can enjoy the story without purchasing the game. The purpose of this study is to analyze the coordination status between producers and internet broadcasters for story-type games that could be copyrighted and suggest ways to move forward.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.126-137
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• 2018

Visual characters used in television affect the viewers in a different way from printed media. This paper analyzed the visual characters presented in each home shopping channel and their year-by-year characteristics in terms of layouts. Based on the results, the readability was analyzed according to different layouts, suggesting optimal layouts that allows for better communication with the viewers. The purpose of this study is thus to focus on the visual character layouts, which have not been fully explored to date, in order to identify the most effective one among basic locations of visual characters. The results indicate that the bottom location shows higher readability than top. The right side showed higher preference than left, while readability did not demonstrate a significant difference. As for the L-bar and reverse L-bar, the L-bar arrangement was shown preferable in terms of readability. Finally, the layout should be determined considering the readability by location.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.529-537
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• 2001

According to increase of preference to the large display device, demand of a three-tube projection TV increase in the display market. But luminance per unit area of a 3-tube projection TV is less bright than that of original one -tube TV The color gamut of phosphor used in the projection TV is different to standard gamut of phosphor in NTSC. In this paper, we analyze the relationship between coordinates of RGB phosphor and RGB beam currents according to the color temperature in projection HDTV. We also proposed the range of reference white which maximize the luminance that viewer feel based on both Helmholtz-Kohlrausch effect which is visual property and degradation of image according to the change of beam profile by current-ratio.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.96-106
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• 2002

We introduce a novel scheme to characterize and index events in TV golf programs using MPEG-7 descriptors. Our goal is to identify and localize the golf events of interest to facilitate highlight-based video indexing and summarization. In particular, we analyze multiple (low-level) visual features using domain-specific model to create a perceptual relation for semantically meaningful(high-level) event identification. Furthermore, we summarize a TV golf program with TV-Anytime segmentation metadata, a standard form of an XML-based metadata description, in which the golf events are represented by temporally localized segments and segment groups of highlights. Experimental results show that our proposed technique provides reasonable performance for identifying a variety of golf events.