• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.01a
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• pp.131-132
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• 2018

본 프로젝트는 Unity3D Tool 기반의 가상 체험용 VR 프로젝트를 설계하고 개발하였다. 프로젝트의 핵심 기능 및 환경은 게임 제작용 툴인 Unity를 사용하여 웹과 모바일 앱에서 다양하게 접근할 수 있도록 제작하였다. 웹에서는 키보드와 마우스로 제어하고 모바일 앱에서는 자체 컨트롤러 기능을 활용하여 이동 및 제어 처리하였다. 그리고 VR 장치를 활용한 앱 컨트롤러는 시선으로 제어 할 수 있도록 하였다. 프로젝트 활용환경의 공통적인 기능으로는 화면 중앙에 위치한 이동 포인터를 액션 이미지에 일정 시간 올려놓으면 이벤트가 발생하는 레이케스트 기능을 사용하였다. 건물 내부를 표현한 파노라마 이미지는 해당하는 각 장소마다 360' 카메라를 사용하여 촬영하여 기능을 구현하였다. 본 프로젝트는 다양한 네트워크 및 컴퓨팅 환경에서 활용할 수 있는 가상 체험 프로젝트이다. 가상 체험을 통해 가상공간에서 거리, 공간, 시간에 구애받지 않고 학교 소개 및 홍보를 위한 마케팅 효과를 가질 것이다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.1430-1441
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• 2012

In this paper, we present an algorithm that quickly and effectively estimates orthogonal vanishing points in equirectangular images of urban environment. Our algorithm is based on the RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) algorithm and on the characteristics of the line segment in the spherical panorama image of the $360^{\circ}$ longitude and $180^{\circ}$ latitude field of view. These characteristics can be used to reduce the geometric ambiguity in the line segment classification as well as to improve the robustness of vanishing point estimation. The proposed algorithm is validated experimentally on a wide set of images. The results show that our algorithm provides excellent levels of accuracy for the vanishing point estimation as well as line segment classification.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.298-301
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• 2019

이미지 스티칭은 다수의 이미지를 합성하여 카메라의 좁은 시야각(Field of View) 문제를 해결하는 기술이다. 최근 동영상 기반 Panorama, Super Resolution, 360 VR (Virtual Reality) 등의 컨텐츠 사용이 증가함에 따라, 보다 빠르고 정확한 이미지 스티칭 기술의 필요성이 커지고 있다. 지금까지 필요 성능을 만족시키기 위해 많은 알고리즘이 제안되고 있지만, 정확성을 측정하는 객관적 평가 방법은 표준화되지 않고 있다. 최근에서야 PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) 과 SSIM (Structural Similarity index method) 측정값을 제시하는 방법이 주를 이루고 있지만, 본 논문에서는 PSNR 과 SSIM 측정 방식의 문제점을 밝히고 지역 차분 픽셀 평가 방법을 제안한다. 기하적 유사성과 광도 측정 정보를 포괄하는 LDPM(Local Differential Pixel Mean) 평가 방식을 테스트 이미지를 통해 증명하고 SSIM 과 비교를 통해 해당 평가 방법의 이점을 밝힌다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.1255-1258
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• 2022

Recently, immersive VR/AR contents have actively increased, and various services related to VR/AR allow users to experience remote places. For example, if failure situations occur frequently in factory of the remote site, mixed reality (MR) with a synthetic virtual human expert in reconstructed remote location can help immediate maintenance task with interaction between the operator and the virtual expert. In this paper, we present a technique for synthesizing the virtual human after capturing a 360-degree panorama of a remote environment, and analyze the effects to apply a method of guiding virtual human by interaction types. According to this paper, it was shown that co-presence level significantly increased when verbal, facial expression, and non-verbal animation of the virtual human was all expressed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.47-50
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• 2020

최근 Panorama와 360도 영상이 대표되는 몰입형(Immersive) 미디어 콘텐츠의 사용이 증가하고 있다. 몰입형 영상 콘텐츠는 사용자에게 현장감을 제공해야 하지만, 촬영 카메라 간의 시차(Parallax)로 인해 영상 콘텐츠에서 시차 왜곡이 발생할 수 있고, 이는 사용자의 콘텐츠 몰입을 제한하기 때문에 해당 영상 콘텐츠의 제작 기술인 영상 스티칭의 높은 정확도가 요구되고 있다. 지금까지 스티칭 영상의 시차 왜곡을 줄이기 위하여 다중 호모그래피 추정 방법과 Seam Optimization 방법이 제안되었지만, 영상 내 사물 배치에 따라 기술 적용이 제한될 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 Mask R-CNN을 활용하여 사물을 세그먼트화하고, 사물의 종류에 따라 각각 다른 가중치 적용을 통해 시차 왜곡을 방지하며, 영상 내 사물의 배치에 따라 시차 왜곡이 발생할 상황에서는 사용자의 인지 중요도가 낮은 사물로 시차 왜곡을 유도하는 영상 스티칭 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.285-286
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• 2023

The visualization of information serves as a valuable tool for facilitating communication and exchange of opinions among stakeholders by conveying information in an intuitive and clear manner. As a preliminary study of visualization for construction field, this study proposed a model for generating three-dimensional floor layout using 360-degree panoramic cameras. The model integrates the layouts by calculating normal vectors of the plane which has openings, and applying translation and rotation matrices between the normal vectors. The results of this study can contribute to improving communication in construction sites by incorporating visualization, and further to the digital transformation of the construction industry.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.1792-1801
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• 2003

In these days, image mosaic is getting interest in the field of advertisement, tourism, game, medical imaging, and so on with the development of internet technology and the performance of personal computers. The main problem of mage mosaic is searching corresponding points correctly in the overlapped area between images. However, previous methods requires a lot of CPU times and data processing for finding corresponding points. And they need repeated recording with a revolution of 360 degree around objects or background. This paper presents a new image mosaic method which generates a panorama image from a video sequence recorded by a general video camera. Our method finds the corresponding points between two successive images by using a new direction oriented 3­step block matching methods. Experimental results show that the suggested method is more efficient than the methods based on existing block matching algorithm, such as full search and K­step search algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.571-572
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• 2022

Recently, VR/AR(virtual reality/augmented reality) contents have actively increased, and various services related to VR/AR allow users to experience remote places. Also, Metaverse technologies based on VR/AR generally used to provide content in virtual spaces. In this paper, we present a technique for synthesizing virtual humans after capturing a 360-degree panorama of a remote environment, and analyze the remote environment to identify the location where it can be captured without error, and apply a method of synthesizing virtual humans. According to this paper, it is possible to provide various captured spaces such as industrial plants, medical facilities, and schools as remote communication media.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.835-854
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel positioning system for indoor navigation which helps a user navigate easily to desired destinations in an unfamiliar indoor environment using his mobile phone. The system requires only the user's mobile phone with its basic equipped sensors such as a camera and a compass. The system tracks user's positions and orientations using a vision-based approach that utilizes $360^{\circ}$ panoramic images captured in the environment. To improve the robustness of the vision-based method, we exploit a digital compass that is widely installed on modern mobile phones. This hybrid solution outperforms existing mobile phone positioning methods by reducing the error of position estimation to around 0.7 meters. In addition, to enable the proposed system working independently on mobile phone without the requirement of additional hardware or external infrastructure, we employ a modified version of a fast and robust feature matching scheme using Histogrammed Intensity Patch. The experiments show that the proposed positioning system achieves good performance while running on a mobile phone with a responding time of around 1 second.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.525-532
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• 2022

Accidents at construction sites in Korea account for more than half of all industrial accidents. To solve this problem, a policy to strengthen safety education was implemented to ensure the safety of workers. However, it was analyzed that there is a high possibility of accidents because workers did not receive proper safety information for each risk factor due to general lecture-style education. In addition, statistics show that the accident status of workers with fewer years of period is high, indicating that a customized information delivery method needs to be proposed for unskilled workers with fewer years of period. Research on the importance of education has been conducted, but no information delivery method has been identified. For unskilled workers to effectively receive safety information, appropriate delivery formats (text, photos, illustrations, 4D-BIM, 360-based panorama, video, animation) were analyzed, and a new method of education was proposed. If customized safety information is provided according to this proposal, effective information delivery to unskilled workers will be possible, and it is expected to be verified in various ways.