• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.171-178
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• 2009

Multiple layer displacement mapping methods are able to represent more complex and general geometries which cannot be presented by single layer displacement mapping methods, and provide a realistic scene to digital contents such as 3D games and movies with relatively low costs. However, as we use more layers for details, data space is wasted more because lower layers have less displacement data than higher layers. In this paper, we suggest a lossless compression and rendering method of a multiple layer displacement map. Since we compress the map without data loss, the proposed method provides the same quality as the rendering result that uses an original multiple layer displacement map.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.584-595
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• 2011

Recently, RGB images and depth maps have been supplied to academic fields. The depth maps are utilized to the generation of stereoscopic images in the diverse formats according to the users' preference. A variety of methods that use depth maps have been introduced so far. One of applications is a medical field. In this area, the improvement of the perceptual quality of 2D medical images has gained much interest. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme that expands the conventional method to 3D stereoscopic image, thereby achieving the perceptual depth quality improvement as well as 3D stereoscopic perception enhancement at the same time. For this, contrast transformation as well as depth darkening are proposed and their performance is validated through the subjective test. Subjective experiments peformed for stereoscopic enhancement as well as visual fatigue validate that the proposed method achieves better 3D perception than the usage of the original stereoscopic image and suggests the limitation in terms of the visual fatigue.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.31-43
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• 2014

A depth map is an important component for stereoscopic image generation. Since the depth map acquired from a depth camera has a low resolution, upsamling a low-resolution depth map to a high-resolution one has been studied past decades. Upsampling methods are evaluated by objective evaluation tools such as PSNR, Sharpness Degree, Blur Metric. As well, the subjective quality is compared using virtual views generated by DIBR (depth image based rendering). However, works on the analysis of the relation between depth map upsampling and stereoscopic images are relatively few. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between subjective evaluation of stereoscopic images and objective performance of upsampling methods using cross correlation and linear regression. Experimental results demonstrate that the correlation of edge PSNR and visual fatigue is the highest and the blur metric has lowest correlation. Further, from the linear regression, we found relative weights of objective measurements. Further we introduce a formulae that can estimate 3D performance of conventional or new upsampling methods.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.541-550
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• 1994

A true color image is needed many data on the occasion of the transmission and storage. Therefore, we want to describe color image by a minority data without unreasonableness at eyesight. In this paper, it is presented 256 colormap construction method in RGB, YIQ/YUV space and common colormap expression method at merge between colormaps by reason of dissimilar original color image to display at a monitor for each other colormap at the same time. In comparison with processed result in RGB, YIQ/YUV space, it was measured by PSNR, standard variation, and edge preservation rate using sobel operator. Process time is 3second in colormap construction and 2second in merge between colormaps. In the PSNR value, RGB space has higher 0.15, 0.34 on an average than YIQ and YUV spae. Standard variation has lower in 0.15, 0.41 on an average than Yiq and YUV space. But in the data compression, YIQ/YUV space have about 1/3 compression efficiency than RGB space by reason of use to only 4bit of 8bit in color component.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.309-311
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• 2012

최근 데스크탑 가상화 서비스와 관련한 솔루션들이 많아지고 있다. 하지만, 이들 솔루션은 클라이언트의 수가 늘어날수록 서버의 부담이 커지며, 특히 3D 그래픽을 지원하는 고사양의 SW 를 지원하기 어려운 한계를 가지고 있다. 이러한 제약을 극복하기 위해 서버에서 데이터 집중적인 작업을 실행하고, 클라이언트 PC 에서는 그래픽 처리와 같은 사용자 인터페이스 작업을 분담하여 실행하는 서버 기반 그래픽 분할 실행 기술[4]이 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 그래픽 분할 실행 기술을 개발하는데 있어 이미지 비트맵 관련 함수가 실행되었을 때 나타나는 비트맵 불일치 현상을 해결하기 위해 백업 비트맵을 이용한 가상 비트맵 관리 기법을 제안하여 궁극적으로 분할 실행 기술 개발을 지원하고자 한다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.600-607
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• 2008

메타버스 개발을 위한 세계 각국의 행보가 빨라지고 있다. 미국의 <세컨드라이프>를 시작으로 MS와 구글이 차세대 메타버스 개발을 서두르고 있고, 일본에서도 , , 등이 이미 출시되었거나 출시를 앞두고 있다. 이에 발맞춰 메타버스에 관한 연구도 한창인데, 2006년 5월 미국 캘리포니아에서 열린 제1회 메타버스 로드맵 서alt(Metaverse Roadmap Summit)이 대표적이다. 미국미래학협회(ASF)주최로 열린 이 행사에는 미국의 저명한 IT전문가, 게임제작자들이 대거 참가했고, 조직위측은 이날 햇사에서 진행된 수십 시간 분량의 토론을 인터넷에 고시해서 1년동안 각계각층의 의견을 수렴했다. 그리고 1년 후인 2007년 6월 <메타버스 로드맵 3D웹으로 가는길>을 발표됐다. 뿐만 아니라 비슷한 시기에 일본의 <노무라연구소>에서도 IT로드맵을 발표하고 메타버스의 발전전망을 제시했다. 이에 반해 세계최고의 IT기술력을 자랑하는 국내에서는 메타버스에 관한 개발과 연구가 매우 미흡한 실정이다. 이에 본 고에서는 미국의 <메타버스 로드맵>과 일본의 을 중심으로 메타버스의 개념과 발전전망을 살펴보고, 현존하는 가상세계 중 메타버스 개념에 가장 근접했다고 평가받는 린든랩의 <세컨드라이프>의 의의와 한계를 짚어보았다. 또한 제2, 제3의 <세컨드라이프>를 노리고 있는 세계 각 국의 메타버스 개발동향을 분석하고 이를 통해서 차세대 메타버스 개발의 성공조건으로서 풍부한 콘텐츠 제공과 SNS기능의 강화, 미러월드의 발전가능성등에 주목해야 함을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 연구결과는 90년대 온라인게임의 성공 이후 장기간 침체 현상을 보이고 있는 우리의 가상세계 개발연구에 유의미한 시사점을 지닌다고 하겠다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.362-371
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• 2014

Blur variation caused by camera de-focusing provides a proper cue for depth estimation. Depth from Defocus (DFD) technique calculates the blur amount present in an image considering that blur amount is directly related to scene depth. Conventional DFD methods use two defocused images that might yield the low quality of an estimated depth map as well as a reconstructed infocused image. To solve this, a new DFD methodology based on infocused and defocused images is proposed in this paper. In the proposed method, the outcome of Subbaro's DFD is combined with a novel edge blur estimation method so that improved blur estimation can be achieved. In addition, a saliency map mitigates the ill-posed problem of blur estimation in the region with low intensity variation. For validating the feasibility of the proposed method, twenty image sets of infocused and defocused images with 2K FHD resolution were acquired from a camera with a focus control in the experiments. 3D stereoscopic image generated by an estimated depth map and an input infocused image could deliver the satisfactory 3D perception in terms of spatial depth perception of scene objects.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.14-22
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• 2014

An autonomous vehicle requires a technology of generating maps by recognizing surrounding environment. The recognition of the vehicle's environment can be achieved by using distance information from a 2D laser scanner and color information from a camera. Such sensor information is used to generate 2D or 3D maps. A 2D map is used mostly for generating routs, because it contains information only about a section. In contrast, a 3D map involves height values also, and therefore can be used not only for generating routs but also for finding out vehicle accessible space. Nevertheless, an autonomous vehicle using 3D maps has difficulty in recognizing environment in real time. Accordingly, this paper proposes the technology for generating 2D maps that guarantee real-time recognition. The proposed technology uses only the color information obtained by removing height values from 3D maps generated based on the fusion of 2D laser scanner and camera data.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.251-260
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• 2016

Knowledge map is widely used to represent knowledge in many domains. This paper presents a method of integrating the national R&D data and assists of users to navigate the integrated data via using a knowledge map service. The knowledge map service is built by using a lightweight ontology modeling method. The national R&D data is integrated with the research project as its center, i.e., the other R&D data such as research papers, patent, and project reports are connected with the research project as its outputs. The lightweight ontology is used to represent the simple relationships between the integrated data such as project-outputs relationships, document-author relationships, and document-topic relationships. Knowledge map enables us to infer the further relationships such as co-author and co-topic relationships. To extract the relationships between the integrated data, a RDB-to-Triples transformer is implemented. Lastly, we show an experiment on R&D data integration using the lightweight ontology, triples generation, and visualization and navigation of the knowledge map.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.517-519
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• 2004

GPS(Global Positioning System)은 위성에서 현재 시스템이 위치한 곳의 주위 지역을 2차원으로 표현해 주는 시스템이다. 이 시스템에서의 그래픽 표현은 비트맵 표현 방식으로 다량의 메모리를 사용하는 단점이 있다. 이 논문에서는 GPS의 다량의 메모리를 사용하는 단점을 보완하기 위하여 비트맵 표현 방식을 지양하고 벡터 표현 방식을 사용하는 SVG(Scalable Vector Graphic)를 이용하며 메모리 사용량을 감소시킬 수 있는 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 또한 XML의 그래픽 표준안인 SVG에서는 2차원만을 표시하기 때문에 3차원 표현이 어려우나, ECMAScript를 사용하여 SVG의 단정인 3자원 표현의 어려움을 개선하는 방법에 대해 고찰하고자 한다.