• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.25-33
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• 2008

Video telephony is a representative service in 3G mobile network. And there have been efforts to improve quality of video telephony service in different fields. In Korea, the leading mobile service provider SKTelecom and KTF service the WCDMA network as 3G mobile network. Now, more than a million people is using the network. In this paper, we study about video telephony over WCDMA network. and propose error minimizing algorithm using cross-layer adaptation between physical layer and video codec. We simulated 3G-324M protocol with MPEG-4 video codec, and simulation results show suggested algorithm improve packet transmission rate for improving quality of video telephony service.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.560-574
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• 2010

Recently, many people can easily contact video telephony service through the mobile terminal owing to the commercialization of 3G communication technology. However, the quality of the serviced video telephony has been not good yet by the actual mobile restrictions. For solving quality problems, this paper presents the design of the object-based video CODEC using hybrid transform in mobile video telephony. The proposed design firstly segment each frame into a significant object and an insignificant object. The proposed design is to improve the quality of a significant object by limiting the bit rate of a insignificant object. Thus, we compress a significant object with high quality and low compression ratio and compress an insignificant object with low quality and high compression ratio. Furthermore, we control the bit rate of the video stream in the limited bandwidth by adjusting the compression ratio of each object. From experimental results, we confirmed that our method has more higher quality than methods in the conventional CODECs at the significant region on the same bit rate.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.107-125
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• 2010

The purpose of this research is to identify the critical factors influencing on the continuous use of video telephony service for mobile devices. An empirical analysis has been performed by using service quality, brand image, price, fun as influencing factors, and satisfaction and commitment as mediating factors. The partial least squares(PLS) methodology with 228 questionnaires has been conducted. The results indicated that brand image, price, and fun were mediated by satisfaction and commitment to have a statistically significant influence on continuous use of video telephony service. Service quality showed a significant effect on continuous use mediated by satisfaction while it did not show any influence through commitment. Based on the results, companies in the communication service industry should consider and focus on the improved brand image, appropriate fees, and individual preferences for fun for the successful marketing activities, and should also maintain amicable relations with their customers.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.77-78
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• 2008

With advent of 3G mobile communication services, video telephony becomes one of the major services. However, due to a narrow channel bandwidth, the current video telephony services have not yet reached a satisfied level. In this paper, we propose an ROI (Region-Of-Interest) based improvement of visual quality for video telephony services with the H.264|MPEG-4 Part 10 (AVC: Advanced Video Coding) codec. To this end, we propose a face detection and tracking method to define ROI for the AVC codec based video telephony. Experiment results show that our proposed ROI based method allowed for improved visual quality in both objective and subjective perspectives.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.111-132
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• 2010

Korean telecommunications industry has a large scale market and boasts on high service quality and high technologies enough to provide the mobile video telephony service(the VTS) satisfactorily. For many years, Korean telecommunications companies have been investing enormous amount of money to advertise their VTS widely and to allow their customers to change their cell phones for the 3G(the third generation) devices indispensable for the VTS. However, despite their efforts, the VTS adoption rate in Korea is very low as of January, 2010 and it seems that customers seldom feel the necessity to use. From this viewpoint, it becomes necessary to identify antecedents influencing the intention to use for the VTS empirically. For this purpose, we have proposed several hypotheses from the perspective of the Value-based Adoption Model(VAM). We conducted a survey and found the several factors which influence the value perception of VTS.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2022

Online video telephony systems have been increasingly used in several industrial areas because of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread. The existing session initiation protocol (SIP)-based video call system is being usefully utilized, however, there is a limitation that it is very inconvenient for users to transmit additional information during conversation to the other party in real time. To overcome this problem, an enhanced scheme is presented based on augmented real-time reality (AR). In this scheme, augmented information is automatically searched from the Internet and displayed on the user's device during video telephony. The proposed approach was qualitatively evaluated by comparing it with other conferencing systems. Furthermore, to evaluate the feasibility of the approach, we implemented a simple network application that can generate SIP call requests and answer with AR object pre-fetching. Using this application, the call setup time was measured and compared between the original SIP and pre-fetching schemes. The advantage of this approach is that it can increase the convenience of a user's mobile phone by providing a way to automatically deliver the required text or images to the receiving side.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.13D no.3 s.106
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• pp.383-390
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• 2006

Product-line engineering is a dreaming goal in software engineering research. Unfortunately, the current underlying technologies do not seem to be still not much matured enough to make it viable in the industry. Based on our experiences in working on mobile telephony systems over 3 years, now we are in the course of developing an approach to product-line engineering for mobile telephony system software. In this paper, the experiences are shared together with our research motivation and idea. Consequently, we propose an approach to building and maintaining telephony application logics from the perspective of scenes. As a Domain-Specific Language(DSL), Menu Navigation Viewpoint(MNV) DSL is designed to deal with the problem domain of telephony applications. The functional requirements on how a set of telephony application logics are configured can be so various depending on manufacturer, product concept, service carrier, and so on. However, there is a commonality that all of the currently used telephony application logics can be generally described from the point of user's view, with a set of functional features that can be combinatorially synthesized from typical telephony services(i.e. voice/video telephony, CBS/SMS/MMS, address book, data connection, camera/multimedia, web browsing, etc.), and their possible connectivity. MNV DSL description acts as a backbone software architecture based on which the other types of telephony application logics are placed and aligned to work together globally.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.08a
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• pp.99-103
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• 2009

Recently, as wired and wireless communication services have rapidly developed and multimodal mobile devices which have various characteristics have widely spread, the need for new convergence services increases. The growing population of VoIP technologies and the high communication expense yield that the market of IP based telephony such as WiFi phone and IP phone is substituted for one of the conventional PSTN telephony. With the help of this trend, the wireline network operators desire to find a market in mobile networks. Therefore, they focus on Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) service as one of the key factors to accomplish this goal. FMC services are able to provide the mobility of voice services between circuit switched and packet switched networks. IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based Voice Call Continuity (VCC) is one of the schemes to embody FMC services. As Application Server (AS) which has this VCC function provides seamless handover of services between heterogeneous networks, FMC subscribers can communicate seamlessly with others m WiFi domain and COMA domain using WiFi-COMA dual phone. Most of enterprises have already introduced IP network infrastructure and IP-PBX (Private Branch eXchange) for telephony. However, the problems of high communication cost and work inefficiency due to frequent outside jobs or business trips have remained. In order to solve these problems, demands for enterprise FMC services increase. In this paper, we introduce a new IP-PBX based VCC model that can provide seamless handover of voice services between WiFi and COMA networks for enterprise users and we investigate some interworking and security issues between Soft Switch (SSW) and IMS, or between IMSs. In addition, we introduce a new service that can provide the continuity of voice sessions as well as video sessions using Multimedia Session Continuity (MMSC) technology which has evolved from VCC. This service is expected to be one of the next-generation personalized services based on user's context.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.317-322
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• 2008

WCDMA 의 등장으로 영상통화를 지원하는 휴대폰의 보급은 빠르게 확산되고 있다. 하지만 예상과 달리 사용자들의 실제 영상통화 이용율은 그리 활성화 되지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구자들은 이러한 현상이 나타나게 된 원인이 영상통화 기능이 단순한 통화기능으로만 활용될 뿐 그 실질적 효용성이 높지 못하기 때문이라 판단하여, 영상 통화를 활성화 시킬 수 있는 방안에 대한 연구를 진행하였다. 오늘날 IT 기반의 서비스 중에 매우 활성화 된 것이 쇼핑 관련 서비스이다. 무선 인터넷과 모바일 환경에서 금융과 통신의 융합이 사회적 화두로 떠오르고, 이러한 이유로 영상통화 기능을 쇼핑과 연계한다면 그 효용성이 매우 커질 것으로 판단하였다. 그리하여 본 연구에서는 사용자 행태 조사을 통해 그들의 needs 를 범주화하고 분석하여 영상통화 쇼핑 서비스 어플리케이션을 도출하였다. 그리고 도출된 어플리케이션의 세부적 절차와 원활한 인터페이스의 설계를 위해 시나리오 형식으로 개방하여 그 형태를 구체화시키고자 하였다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02b
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• pp.85-90
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• 2007

세계 이동 통신 시장은 점차 3G(세대)~3.5G(세대)로 전환되면서 세대 교체하고 있다. 3G 이동 통신의 대표 서비스인 화상전화는 음성통화와는 다른 새로운 커뮤니케이션이나 여러 가지 원인으로 일반화되지 않고 있는데, 그 원인 중 하나가 새로운 사용 경험과 사용 환경이 충분히 고려되지 않은 UI 라고 생각된다. 따라서, 본 조사에서는 한국, 일본, 영국, 이탈리아 등 4 개국을 대상으로 현재 출시된 화상전화 제품에 대하여 실사용자 FGI 와 설문, In-depth interview 등을 통해 사용자들의 화상전화 사용 경험을 조사하고, 조사를 통한 발견점을 통해 UI 설계 전문가 관점에서 향후 UI 에 대한 제안점을 찾아 보다 나은 화상전화 경험을 제공하기 위한 바탕으로 삼고자 한다.