• (The)Study of the Eastern Classic
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• 제68호
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• pp.409-437
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• 2017

The curiosity of the human afterlife created many imaginations. The Death Angel's Character are also the product of this imagination. This is because we needed a connection between this world and the otherworld in human' imaginations. The Death Angel revealed in detail in Shamanistic Epics. First, It is the person who performs the task assigned by The King of the Otherworld. Second, It is a person who can go to this world and the otherworld. Third, It is the person who takes the deceased to the otherworld. Fourth, It is the person who takes out the soul of human and modify the life list. Fifth, It is the person who sympathetic and humane qualities. This The Death Angel's character is actively accepted in modern contents. The most representative works are <49 Days>, , . Contemporary content, but the otherworld and the afterlife were accepted. And The Death Angel played an important role. Of course, this process also happens that modern changes. Namely, Function and personality retains existing character. And the appearance and background change a modern sense. As a result, The Death Angel became a new character through the encounter between the past and the present.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.1-26
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• 2021

Measuring the intangible asset has been vigorously studied for its importance. Especially, the value of character in media industry is difficult to quantitatively evaluate in spite of the industry's rapid growth. Recently, the Social Network Analysis (i.e., SNA) has been actively applied to understand human usage patterns in a media field. By using SNA methodology, this study attempts to investigate how the character network characteristics of media works are linked to human search behaviors. Our analysis reveals the positive correlation and causality between character network centralities and character search data. This result implies that the character network can be used as a clue for the valuation of character assets.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2006년도 학술대회 1부
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• pp.118-123
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 반몰입형 가상현실 시스템인 반응형 멀티미디어 시스템(RMS: Responsive Multimedia System)을 이용한 개인화된 스토리텔링 기법을 제안한다. 인간은 글, 그림, 영상 기술 등을 이용한 다양한 스토리텔링 기법을 개발해 왔으며, 가상 현실 기술을 통하여 기존의 멀티미디어보다 한차원 높은 수준의 스토리텔링을 가능하게 하였다. 제안된 스토리텔링 기법은 테이블 형태의 다감각 사용자 인터페이스, 사용자 정보 처리와 위치기반 이벤트를 결정하는 컨텍스트 인식 응용 모델 (vr-UCAM), 그리고 가상환경 네비게이션과 변화, 캐릭터의 애니메이션을 가능케 하는 가상공간 관리기로 구성된다. 제안된 스토리텔링 기법은 다감각 사용자 인터페이스를 통하여 직관적인 상호작용을 가능하게 한다. 그리고 컨텍스트 인식 응용 모델을 활용하여 사용자 개인정보를 스토리에 적용하여 개인화된 스토리가 전개될 수 있도록 한다. 그리고 가상 환경의 네비게이션, 가상 캐릭터, 날씨 및 환경의 변화 등을 조절하여 실감있게 스토리가 전개되도록 한다. 제안된 스토리텔링 환경을 검증하기 위해 운주사에 얽힌 설화를 기반으로 가상 운주사 체험 시스템을 구현하였다. 이를 통해, 반응형 멀티미디어 시스템을 이용한 스토리텔링의 가능성을 검증하였으며, 컨텍스트 인식 응용 모형을 활용한 개인화된 스토리텔링을 선보였다. 제안된 스토리텔링 기법은 문화교육, 에듀테인먼트, 예술 분야에 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 한국멀티미디어학회 2003년도 추계학술발표대회(하)
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• pp.585-588
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• 2003

최근의 영화나 애니메이션에 자주 등장하는 디지털 인간 캐릭터의 제작에서 사실적인 피부 렌더링을 위하여 다양한 공학적, 예술적 접근이 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사실적인 피부렌더링을 위해 subsurface illumination 테크닉을 이용한 쉐이더를 구현하고 아티스트들의 효율적인 제어를 위해 보다 직관적인 인터페이스를 제안하였다. 구현한 쉐이더는 3D 그래픽 응용 프로그램인 Maya의 플러그인 형태로 제작되었으며 기존의 전통적인 쉐이딩 인터페이스와의 조화를 고려하여 제안된 매개변수들을 확장 형태로 제공하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 한국정보과학회 2011년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.38 No.1(A)
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• pp.434-437
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• 2011

최근 단일 프로세서의 성능 개선이 한계에 이르고, 이에 따라 데이터 병렬 처리를 통한 시스템 성능 개선에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 또한 이러한 변화로 인해 영상처리 분야에서도 대규모 연산의 병렬 컴퓨팅 수행에 관한 연구가 꾸준히 진행되고 있으며 하드웨어 또한 발전하여 실시간 시스템에 영상처리 분야가 많이 활용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 캐릭터의 감정 상태에 따른 표정을 영상처리 분야에서 많이 사용되고 있는 이미지 워핑 기법을 적용하여 변화시킨다. 인간이 표현할 수 있는 기본적인 감정에 따른 표정을 데이터베이스로 정리하여 캐릭터에게 임의의 감정값이 주어지면 그에 맞는 표정을 데이터베이스에서 선택하여 사용자가 설정한 프레임만큼 워핑을 수행한다. 하지만 매 프레임에 대해 정해져 있는 제어선에 따라 움직이는 픽셀들의 워핑 연산은 그 계산량이 너무 많아 실시간으로 처리하기에 여러 가지 제약이 뒤따른다. 따라서 이를 실시간으로 처리하기 위해 NVIDIA의 CUDA를 활용한 데이터 병렬처리를 수행하여 실시간 처리가 가능하게 하는 방법을 제안하고, 실험을 통해 그 유용성을 제시한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.277-285
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to quantitatively and empirically investigate whether cartoon-realism, which is referred to as a guideline for avoiding the uncanny valley phenomenon, is actually effective. An experiment was carried out to investigate whether or not methods that try to realistically express the texture of human skin while making 3D models whose outward appearance abstract like a cartoon actually reduce the negative sentiments associated with the uncanny valley phenomenon. The results found that when human skin textures were applied to cartoon-type 3D models, the degree of eeriness significantly increased (p<0.05), while there was no change in the degree of human likeness. When cartoon-style skin textures were applied to human-type 3D models, there was no significant difference in the degree of eeriness, but the degree of human likeness significantly decreased (p<0.05). These results show that, cartoon realism is not actually effective, and rather creates a perceptual conflict and induces the uncanny valley phenomenon. The results of this study are expected to be used as quantitative and empirical data for developing design guidelines that will overcome the uncanny valley phenomenon in the future.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.1641-1652
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• 2018

In this study, a design of emoticons based on sex was studied through Kansai engineering method. First, we developed emoticon prototypes according to a design guideline derived from existing related literatures. Then, the design guidelines was updated from the survey results on the properties of emoticon, and the two sets of modified emoticons were developed from them. Another survey was executed to evaluate the degree of emotional expressions on the three types of emoticons developed in this way. A small number of emoticons were found to be designed fulling the researcher's intention. However, in many other emoticons, it was difficult to find a consistent characteristics. Even though it was observed through detailed analysis that one of the main causes of this result was lack of detail in the design guidelines, the results of this study are expected to be used as basic data for the development and application of character - type emoticons suitable for male and female users' emotional expressions in future researches.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2023

In this paper, we present a method for estimating full 3D shapes from given 2D silhouette images of human bodies. Because the silhouette only consists of the partial information on the true shape, it is an ill-posed problem. To address the problem, we use the statistical human shape space obtained from the existing large 3D human shape database. The method consists of three steps. First, we extract the boundary pixels and their appropriate normal vectors from the input silhouette images. Then, we initialize the correspondences of each pixel to the vertex of the statistically-deformable 3D human model. Finally, we numerically optimize the parameters of the statistical model to fit best to the given silhouettes. The viability and the robustness of the method is demonstrated with various experiments.

• Archives of design research
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.117-126
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• 2003

The human computer interaction has gone through diverse changes along with the technical progress of computers. With the spread of the world wide web, attempts of various forms and methods of interactions reflecting the characteristics of the web are being made. Among the diverse concepts of interaction, Conversational Agent uses a character as the visual perceptional object and through the interaction based on conversation it suggests a natural, human, intuitive interaction. In this study, Conversational Agent was suggested and applied on a cyber lecture website and the appropriateness was verified. The fundamental structure and method needed in constructing a conversation was examined through the study on conversation. After that the characteristics of the conversation used on the web was identified and hereby and the coherence and conversation structure was deducted. After the characteristics of the conversational agent were observed, it was applied to the previously deducted web sites logical connection and conversation structure. Lastly, the conversational agent suitable for the web site was proposed and realized.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.125-135
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• 2010

Body motions are commonly used to express emotions in virtual characters based on body parts, which are frequently employed in games. For this purpose, it is necessary to create different types of animations corresponding to the emotions shown by virtual characters. Therefore, a large of number of animations should be created for different gestures depending on the level of human emotion. In this paper, we propose a method for displaying gestures with various degrees of complexity on the basis of the level of emotion in virtual characters. In particular, this method can be used to display passive and exaggerated expressions by adding weighted values to the frames that rotate the characters to make them show different gestures depending on the level of emotion. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we use the Emotional Animation Tool (EATool), with which body-weighted values can be applied to the actual or virtual characters. After assigning different emotions to walking motions in the newly developed environment, we apply different body-weighted values depending on the level of each emotion. The results of a comparative test reveal that a given type of walking motion differs with the level of emotion.