• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 2006

Tactile displays can provide useful information without disturbing others and are particularly useful for people with visual or auditory impairments. They can also complement other displays. In this paper, we present a new vibrotactile display device for wearable, mobile, and ubiquitous computing environments. The proposed vibrotactile device has a $5{\times}5$ array configuration for displaying complex information such as letters, numbers, and haptic patterns as well as simple directional ques and situation awareness alarms. Commercially available coin-type vibration motors are embedded vertically in flexible mounting pads in order to best localize vibrations on the skin. An embedded microprocessor controls the motors sequentially with an advanced tracing mode to increase recognition rate. User studies with the vibrotactile device on the top of the foot show 86.7% recognition rate for alphabet characters after some training. In addition, applying vibrotactile device to driving situation shows 83.9% recognition rate. We also propose some potentially useful application scenarios including Caller Identification for mobile phones and Navigation Aids for GPS systems while driving.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.629-638
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• 2023

This study introduces an innovative approach to monitor the whereabouts of workers within indoor construction settings. While traditional modalities such as GPS and NTRIP have demonstrated efficacy for outdoor localizations, their precision dwindles in indoor environments. In response, this research advocates for the adoption of Aruco markers. Leveraging computer vision technology, these markers facilitate the quantification of the distance between a worker and the marker, subsequently pinpointing the worker's instantaneous location with heightened accuracy. The methodology's efficacy was rigorously evaluated in a real-world construction scenario. Parameters including system stability, the influence of lighting conditions, the extremity of measurable distances, and the breadth of recognition angles were methodically appraised. System stability was ascertained by maneuvering the camera at a uniform velocity, gauging its marker recognition prowess. The impact of varying luminosity on marker discernibility was scrutinized by modulating the ambient lighting. Furthermore, the camera's spatial movement ascertained both the upper threshold of distance until marker recognition waned and the maximal angle at which markers remained discernible.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.59-60
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• 2011

요즘 스마트 디바이스의 보급으로 스마트 디바이스를 통한 다양한 정보제공 서비스 또한 빠르게 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 GPS(Global Positioning System) 센서 이용이 제한적인 실내와 같은 좁은 공간에서 스마트 디바이스 통한 내비게이션시 다양한 정보를 제공할 수 있는 실내 조명변화에 강한 마커 인식 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 형태가 비슷한 실내 공간과 조명이 제한적이거나 급격하게 변하는 상황에서 견고하고 정밀한 위치 추적을 통해 정확한 서비스를 제공할 수 있게 해 줄 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06d
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• pp.124-125
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 GPS 음영 지역에서 사용자의 위치 인식을 위해 추측 항법 기법을 이용하여 사용자의 이동 경로를 추적하는 중간 단계로써 스마트 폰의 내장된 가속도 센서와 나침반 센서를 이용하여 실험자의 걸음걸이 검출과 주머니 속의 스마트 폰의 상대 위치를 파악 방법을 제시한다. 실험 결과 가속도 센서를 이용한 걸음걸이 검출 율은 5%의 오차를 갖고 있으며, 지자기 센서를 이용한 스마트 폰의 자세는 검출 율은 100% 검출 하였으며, 향후 다양한 위치에 존재하는 스마트 폰을 스스로 인식하여 이동 방향을 찾는 연구를 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06b
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• pp.321-323
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• 2012

스마트폰 사용의 보편화와 센서기술의 발달로 이를 응용하는 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히 가속도, GPS, 조도, 방향센서 등의 센서들이 스마트폰에 부착되어 출시되고 있어서, 이를 이용한 상황인지, 행동인식 등의 관련 연구들이 활발하다. 하지만 다양한 클래스를 분류하면서 높은 인식률을 유지하는 것은 어려운 문제이다. 본 논문에서는 인식률 향상을 위해 계층적 구조의 순환 신경망을 이용하여 제스처를 인식한다. 스마트폰의 가속도 센서를 이용하여 사용자의 제스처 데이터를 수집하고 BLSTM(Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory) 구조의 순환신경망을 계층적으로 사용하여, 20가지 사용자의 제스처와 비제스처를 분류한다. 약 24,850개의 시퀀스 데이터를 사용하여 실험한 결과, 기존 BLSTM은 평균 89.17%의 인식률을 기록한 반면 계층적 BLSTM은 평균 91.11%의 인식률을 나타내었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.50-59
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• 2014

This paper proposes a method of localization of vehicle especially the horizontal position for the purpose of recognizing the driving lane. Through tracking road signs, the relative position between the vehicle and the sign is calculated and the absolute position is obtained using the known information from the regulation for installation. The proposed method uses Kalman filter for road sign tracking and analyzes the motion using the pinhole camera model. In order to classify the road sign, ORB(Oriented fast and Rotated BRIEF) features from the input image and DB are matched. From the absolute position of the vehicle, the driving lane is recognized. The Experiments are performed on videos from the highway driving and the results shows that the proposed method is able to compensate the common GPS localization errors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10b
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• pp.340-344
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• 2007

유비쿼터스 지능공간에서 사람의 행동과 위치를 모니터링하는 것은 서비스 제공을 위해 기본적이며 필수적인 단계이다. 본 논문에서는 스마트 펜던트(SmartPendant)의 카메라 영상과 GPS위치 정보를 이용한 새로운 웨어러블 컴퓨터를 제안한다. 우선, 행동 인식를 위해 영상간에 특정 픽셀 값 차와 옵티컬 플로우를 사용하였으며, 인식이 가능한 행동으로는 걷기, 멈춤, 방향전환이다. 또한, GPS를 이용한 사용자의 위치 정보는 위도와 경도에 대한 스트링값을 패킷값으로 변환하여 지능형 상황인지 서버에 전달된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.07a
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• pp.491-492
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 실내 공간 정보 획득을 위한 IMU/INS 항법장치에 관한 연구를 위한 선행연구를 수행 하였다. 최근의 GPS를 이용한 내비게이션의 경우 보통 5~10m의 위치 오차가 일어나지만 아파트나 대형시설과 같이 실내, 터널, 공장지대 및 산악 지대등 상당한 지역은 GPS의 사각지대 또는 오차 범위를 벗어난 지역으로 존재하고 있다. 따라서 GPS는 실내에서는 사용이 불가능 하므로 다른 방안이 제시되어야 한다. 현재 고속 연산을 위한 고성능 마이크로프로세서의 발전은 센서 분야에 적용되어 저 전력, 고 정밀, 소형의 IMU/INS, ARS/AHRS 센서가 개발되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 IMU(inertial measurement unit)와 INS(Inertial Navigation System)을 이용하여 IMU자체의 자이로 센서와 가속도 센서를 이용한 GPS의 위성신호가 감지되지 않는 지형에서도 속도의 적분값과 회전방향을 이용하여 위치인식이 가능하도록 정보를 계산하여 자기의 위치를 추적하는 방안을 연구하였다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.1-21
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• 2012

In recent years, mobile phone has experienced an extremely fast evolution. It is equipped with high-quality color displays, high resolution cameras, and real-time accelerated 3D graphics. In addition, some other features are includes GPS sensor and Digital Compass, etc. This evolution advent significantly helps the application developers to use the power of smart-phones, to create a rich environment that offers a wide range of services and exciting possibilities. To date mobile AR in outdoor research there are many popular location-based AR services, such Layar and Wikitude. These systems have big limitation the AR contents hardly overlaid on the real target. Another research is context-based AR services using image recognition and tracking. The AR contents are precisely overlaid on the real target. But the real-time performance is restricted by the retrieval time and hardly implement in large scale area. In our work, we exploit to combine advantages of location-based AR with context-based AR. The system can easily find out surrounding landmarks first and then do the recognition and tracking with them. The proposed system mainly consists of two major parts-landmark browsing module and annotation module. In landmark browsing module, user can view an augmented virtual information (information media), such as text, picture and video on their smart-phone viewfinder, when they pointing out their smart-phone to a certain building or landmark. For this, landmark recognition technique is applied in this work. SURF point-based features are used in the matching process due to their robustness. To ensure the image retrieval and matching processes is fast enough for real time tracking, we exploit the contextual device (GPS and digital compass) information. This is necessary to select the nearest and pointed orientation landmarks from the database. The queried image is only matched with this selected data. Therefore, the speed for matching will be significantly increased. Secondly is the annotation module. Instead of viewing only the augmented information media, user can create virtual annotation based on linked data. Having to know a full knowledge about the landmark, are not necessary required. They can simply look for the appropriate topic by searching it with a keyword in linked data. With this, it helps the system to find out target URI in order to generate correct AR contents. On the other hand, in order to recognize target landmarks, images of selected building or landmark are captured from different angle and distance. This procedure looks like a similar processing of building a connection between the real building and the virtual information existed in the Linked Open Data. In our experiments, search range in the database is reduced by clustering images into groups according to their coordinates. A Grid-base clustering method and user location information are used to restrict the retrieval range. Comparing the existed research using cluster and GPS information the retrieval time is around 70~80ms. Experiment results show our approach the retrieval time reduces to around 18~20ms in average. Therefore the totally processing time is reduced from 490~540ms to 438~480ms. The performance improvement will be more obvious when the database growing. It demonstrates the proposed system is efficient and robust in many cases.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.141-146
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• 2008

As the interest about ubiquitous environment is increasing, there are many researches about the services in this environment. These services have important issues in interpreting the users' context, using many kinds of sensors, like PDA, GPS and accelerometers. Low level raw data, which sensors like accelerometers calibrates, are hard to use, and to provide real-time services preprocessing and interpreting the data into context, in real-time, is important. This paper describes a context integrate system which can integrate these sensors and also sensors which has raw data, like accelerometers and physiological sensors, and define the context interpret rule with XML. The proposing system reduces programming operations when adding a sensor to the sensor network or modifying the context interpreting rule by using XML. By using this system, we implemented a real-time data monitoring system which can describe the numeric data into graphs, and assist the user to validate the data and results of the preprocess phase, and also support the external services and applications to use the context of the user.