• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.41-47
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• 2019

In this study, a smart assistive device is designed to recognize pedestrian signal and to provide audio instructions for visually impaired people in crossing streets safely. Walking alone is one of the biggest challenges to the visually impaired and it deteriorates their life quality. The proposed device has a camera attached on a pair of glasses which can detect traffic lights, recognize pedestrian signals in real-time using a machine learning algorithm on GPU board and provide audio instructions to the user. For the portability, the dimension of the device is designed to be compact and light but with sufficient battery life. The embedded processor of device is wired to the small camera which is attached on a pair of glasses. Also, on inner part of the leg of the glasses, a bone-conduction speaker is installed which can give audio instructions without blocking external sounds for safety reason. The performance of the proposed device was validated with experiments and it showed 87.0% recall and 100% precision for detecting pedestrian green light, and 94.4% recall and 97.1% precision for detecting pedestrian red light.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.255-261
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• 2008

This paper describes a network framework that support network based humanoid. The framework utilizes middleware such as CORBA (ACE/TAO) that provides PnP capability for network based humanoid. The network framework transfers data gathered from a network based humanoid to a processing group that is distributed on a network. The data types are video stream, audio stream and control data. Also, the network framework transfers service data produced by the processing group to the network based humanoid. By using this network framework, the network based humanoid can provide high quality of intelligent services to user.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2013.01a
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• pp.271-272
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• 2013

The music with the times, evolved from analogous tape music to digital music. New authoring tools, interfaces, and applications make us to produce high quality music using cheap equipments. Inspired by this concept, we design an classical chinese style-instrument with the audio-visual interactive function. It enables a user to compose music and to see a vivid picture at the same time.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.40-43
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• 1996

To design high quality products at low cost is one of very important task for engineers Design optimization for performances can be one solution in this task. This is robust design which has been proved effectively in many field of engineering design. In this paper, the concept of robust design is introduced and combined to fuzzy optimization and nonsingleton fuzzy logic system. The optimum parameter set points were obtained by the fuzzy optimization method and nonsingleton fuzzy logic system. These methods are applied to a filter circuit, a part of the audio circuit of mobile radio transceiver. The results are compared each other.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06c
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• pp.101-104
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• 2001

Over the last few years, streaming audio and video content on Internet sites has increased at unprecedented rates. The predominant method of delivering video over the current Internet is video streaming such as SureStream or Intelligent Stream. Since each method provides the client with only one data stream from one server, it often suffers from poor qualify of pictures in the case of network link congestion. In this paper, we propose a novel method of delivering video stream based on wavelet to a client by utilizing multi-threaded parallel connections from the client to multiple servers and to provides a better way to address the scalability functionalities. The experimental results show that the video quality delivered by the proposed multithreaded stream could significantly be improved over the conventional single video stream methods.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.281-284
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• 2004

This paper presents the design and implementation of a QoS based enhanced collaboration system in MDO. This is an efficient distributed communication tool between designers. It supports text communication, audio/video communication, file transfer and XML data sending/receiving. Specially, this system supports a dynamic QoS self-adaptation by using the improved direct adjustment algorithm (DAA+). The original direct adjustment algorithm adjusts the transmission rate according to the congestion level of the network, based on the end to end real time transport protocol (RTP), and controls the transmission rate by using the information of loss ratio in real time transport control protocol (RTCP). But the direct adjustment algorithm does not consider when the RTCP packets are lost. We suggest an improved direct adjustment algorithm to solve this problem. We apply our improved direct adjustment algorithm to our of QoS (Quality of Service) [1] based collaboration system and show the improved performance of transmission rate and loss ratio.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.431-434
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• 2005

본 논문은 멀티채널 오디오 압축 코덱의 음질을 객관적으로 평가할 수 있는 시스템 및 파라메터에 관한 것으로, 멀티채널 오디오 신호로부터 양이입력신호(ear input signals)를 만들어내는 전처리 과정과 이 과정을 통해 출력되는 양이입력신호로부터 양이레벨차이왜곡(inter-aural level difference distortion)을 구하는 과정 및 양이레벨차이왜곡이 청취평가 결과와 일관적인 상관관계를 보임을 서술한다. 본 연구에 의하면 멀티채널 오디오 압축 코덱의 음질을 선별된 청취자에 의한 주관적인 평가와 통계처리 없이 객관적인 측정만을 통해 평가하는 것이 가능하며, 이를 사용하면 멀티채널 오디오 압축 코덱 개발자들이 시간, 경제적 부담 없이 자신이 개발한 압축 코덱의 음질을 간단하게 평가해볼 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.219-222
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to determine a correlation between acoustic and perceptual parameters of the singing voice in singing students and compare them with the results with previous studies, and a more sensitive parameters in analyzing professional vocal usage. This study measured acoustic and perceptual parameters in 41 singing students. Digital audio recordings were made in sung vowels acoustic analysis. Each sample was judged by 1 experienced singing teacher and 1 voice pathologist on two semantic bipolar 7-point scales (ringing-dull, rich-thin). The results showed that SPP1 (p<0.01), SPP2 (p<0.01), and P1(p<0.01) had significant correlations with ringing and richness quality.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.6 s.102
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• pp.631-636
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• 2005

Recently, research started to focus on Digital Multimedia Broadcasting(DMB), while the DMB service is already being launched to provide high quality audio, video and data broadcasting in Korea. Therefore, the demand for multimedia contents is also rose very sharply. In this paper, we introduced an MPEG-4 contents authoring system with mobile device for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. Our system allows both single-handed and collaborative authoring modo. Further more, to overcome the delaytime for decoding the BIFS information, we also introduced an efficient algorithm to generate dynamic and light BIFS information.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.163-169
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• 1999

Safety education should not only prevent workers from industrial accidents but also contribute to improve the productivity of manufacturing plants or construction sites. In practice this do not happen because workers do not realize the importance of safety education. This study aims to suggest a methodology to improve safety education of construction sites by surveying conditions of safety education and the safety consciousness of workers and engineers. The results showed that most education except regular educations were nominally carried out. Lectures and audio-visual education were mainly used as educational methods. After trainees attended the education session they completed a written survey, the most dissatisfied factor about safety education was education circumstances, of which rate was around 36%. The proportion of construction engineers who thought that safety management was contributable to cost reduction was 35%, to construction period 20%, and to quality enhancement 48%. Based on these results, this research pointed out the need to review training manuals, the development of educational programs, improvement of educational facilities to improve safety education of construction sites, and finally to discussed these issues.