• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.746-755
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• 2013

본 논문은 적외선 영상 시퀀스에서 2차원 양방향 필터 (bilateral filter)를 이용하여 표적의 공간적 정보를 추출하고, 시퀀스의 시간적 프로파일에서는 1차원 양방향 필터를 이용하여 표적의 시간적 정보를 추출하여 표적의 궤적을 검출하는 3차원 양방향 필터를 제안하였다. 평탄 배경 및 표적 영역, 에지 영역을 구별하기 위하여 2차원 영상에서는 공간적 분산값을 이용하며, 배경 프로파일 및 표적 프로파일, 에지 프로파일을 구별하기 위하여 화소의 시간적 프로파일에서는 시간적 분산값을 이용하였다. 이를 통하여 공간적으로는 표적이 없는 배경을 예측하고, 시간적으로는 표적이 없는 배경 프로파일을 생성한다. 최종적으로 공간적으로 예측된 배경 및 시간적으로 예측된 배경 프로파일을 이용하여 표적의 궤적을 추출한다. 기존 방법과 제안한 방법의 성능 비교를 위하여, ROC (receiver operating characteristics) 곡선을 실험에서 사용하였다. 실험결과에서 제안된 방법이 기존방법들보다 오경보율 (false alarm rate)이 낮고, 표적 및 배경에 대한 향상된 식별력을 가졌음을 확인하였다.

• 감성과학
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.111-122
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• 2014

본 연구는 지하철 로비공간을 대상으로 한 주시실험을 통해 공간정보의 본능적 시선탐색과정에서 나타나는 주시특성에 나타난 주사경로 알고리즘을 분석하였다. 주시기간 구간별 분석에서 주시시간이 오래 경과할수록 주사유형 횟수가 증가하고 있었는데, 오래 주시할수록 주시단절이 많이 일어난 것으로 해석이 가능하며, 주시에 따른 피로나 활발한 탐색이 자연스러운 공간탐색과정에서 일어나는 과정에서 화상범위를 벗어나는 경우가 많았던 것으로 보인다. 또한 시간구간의 변화에 따른 주사유형의 변화를 추세선으로 살펴본 결과, "집중"은 시간구간의 증가와 함께 가파른 증가, "대각 수직"은 완만한 증가를 보이는 반면, "순환 혼합 수평"은 감소 경향을 보이고 있다. 공간을 주시한 피험자의 주시데이터에는 다양한 시각정보가 포함되어 있는데, "주의집중"에 나타난 주사유형을 분석한 결과, 이상과 같은 의미 있는 결론을 도출할 수 있었다. 이러한 주사유형의 증감특성은 시간의 경과에 따른 주사경향을 파악함에 있어 기초자료가 될 수 있다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.284-291
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 학습한 표정 패턴을 기반으로 비디오에서 사람의 얼굴을 검출하고 표정을 분석하여 분류하는 프레임워크를 제안한다. 제안 프레임워크는 얼굴 표정을 인식하는데 있어 공간적 정보 외시간에 따라 변하는 표정의 패턴을 표현하기 위해 표정 특성을 공간적으로 분석한 PCA와 시공간적으로 분석한 Hidden Markov Model(HMM) 기반의 표정 HMM을 이용한다. 표정의 공간적 특징 추출은 시간적 분석 과정과 밀접하게 연관되어 있기 때문에 다양하게 변화하는 표정을 검출하여 추적하고 분류하는데 HMM의 시공간적 접근 방식을 적용하면 효과적이기 때문이다. 제안 인식 프레임워크는 현재의 시각적 관측치와 이전 시각적 결과간의 사후 확률 방법에 의해 완성된다. 결과적으로 제안 프레임워크는 대표적인 6개 표정뿐만 아니라 표정의 정도가 약한 프레임에 대해서도 정확하고 강건한 표정 인식 결과를 보인다. 제안 프레임 워크를 이용하면 표정 인식, HCI, 키프레임 추출과 같은 응용 분야 구현에 효과적이다

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.3-11
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• 2018

This study aims to investigate whether there is intensionally changing eye - gaze on the cafe space images with floor finishing materials. In the Yarbus' experiment, he argued that changing information that an observer is asked to obtain from an image changes pattern of eye movements. Based on the scan path evidence, this research have questions as (1) the difference of visual attention on finishing floor material stimulus, (2) visual attention of initial activity time and type of movement paths on AOIs, and (3) visual relation floor area with another AOIs. Eye movements were recorded with the SMI REDn Scientific, which sampled eye position at 30Hz and lasted 2 minutes(120s). Although viewing was binocular, only the right eye was tracked. Of the 66 observers(mean age 22 years, standard deviation: ${\pm}1.82$) who participated in the experiment done by the four point calibration and validation procedures at the beginning tasks. Analyzing qualitative data from the number of fixation and duration on AOIs divided into four parts (AOI I-Floor, AOI II-Wall, AOI III-Ceiling, and AOI IV-Counter) in the stimulus. The results from this experiment analyzed as follows. First, it was significant in the difference of the average number of AOIs fixation times observed for the spatial image using the wood tile flooring material and the polishing tile. The wood tile flooring of stimulus had higher fixation number on AOI-II, AOI-III, and AOI-IV than the polishing tile. On seeing AOI-I was higher attention in the polishing tile stimulus. Second, the observers examined AOI-II intensively in both stimuli. However, the visual intensity was also followed by on the AOI-IV and AOI-I in the wood tile flooring stimulus, and on AOI-I, AO-IV in the polishing tile. Third, visual attention data on each AOIs have divided into the time range of "5 sec" for both images. In the wood tile stimulus, the horizontal movement path followed by AOI-II, AOI-IV, and AOI-II. In the polished tile stimulus, the movement path followed by moving vertically to AOI-II, AOI-I, and AOI-II. This study approached meaningfully and found out the characteristics of visual attention, according to the different intentions of visual attention, the relationship pathways of visual mechanism appeared and also activated by eye-tracking experiments.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.501-511
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• 2013

Protecting privacy is an important goal in designing location-based services. Service providers want to verify legitimate users and allow permitted users to enjoy their services. Users, however, want to preserve their privacy and prevent tracking. In this paper, a new framework providing users with more privacy and anonymity in both the authentication process and the querying process is proposed. Unlike the designs proposed in previous works, our framework benefits from a combination of three important techniques: k-anonymity, timed fuzzy logic, and a one-way hash function. Modifying and adapting these existing schemes provides us with a simpler, less complex, yet more mature solution. During authentication, the one-way hash function provides users with more privacy by using fingerprints of users' identities. To provide anonymous authentication, the concept of confidence level is adopted with timed fuzzy logic. Regarding location privacy, spatial k-anonymity prevents the users' locations from being tracked. The experiment results and analysis show that our framework can strengthen the protection of anonymity and privacy of users by incurring a minimal implementation cost and can improve functionality.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2009년도 추계학술발표논문집
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• pp.640-644
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• 2009

현재 태양광 산업에서는 고정식 태양광 발전장치보다 발전 효율이 우수한 추적식 태양광 발전장치를 개발하는 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 추적식 태양광 발전장치는 고정식에 대비하여 단위면적당 일사량을 최대로 유지할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 일조시간을 최대로 하여 태양전지의 발전효율을 극대화할 수 있다. 따라서 정밀하면서도 저렴한 태양위치 추적장치는 태양광 발전사업의 경제성을 높이고, 성능 대비 투자비용을 낮춰 태양광 발전설비의 보급을 촉진시켜줄 수 있는 중요한 기술이다. 본 연구는 태양위치를 감지하는데 센서를 사용하지 않고 천문학과 수학을 이용하여 정밀도 1분($0.016^{\circ}$)이내의 태양위치를 계산하는 알고리즘에 관한 것이다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 알고리즘은 장치의 제작비용을 낮추어 줄 뿐 아니라, 발전효율도 높여준다. 구현된 알고리즘을 적용시킨 추적식 태양광 발전장치를 운용 실측한 결과, 최대 30초($0.0038^{\circ}$)의 오차를 보여 추적식 발전장치의 경제성을 높일 수 있고, 시간복잡도(Time Complexity)와 공간복잡도(Spatial Complexity)가 낮아 실시간 태양 추적장치에 최적임을 확인하였다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2015

In-situ measurements are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and limited in their ability to observe currents with spatial variations in the surf zone. This paper proposes an optical image-based method of measurement of currents in the surf zone. This method measures nearshore currents by tracking in time wave breaking-induced foam patches from sequential images. Foam patches in images tend to be arrayed with irregular pixel intensity values, which are likely to remain consistent for a short period of time. This irregular intensity feature of a foam patch is characterized and represented as a keypoint using an image-based object recognition method, i.e., Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT). The keypoints identified by the SIFT method are traced from time sequential images to produce instantaneous velocity fields. In order to remove erroneous velocities, the instantaneous velocity fields are filtered by binding them within upper and lower limits, and averaging the velocity data in time and space with a certain interval. The measurements that are obtained by this method are comparable to the results estimated by an existing image-based method of observing currents, named the Optical Current Meter (OCM).

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1771-1774
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• 2005

Recently, RFID has become popular in the field of remote sensing applications. Location awareness is one of the most important keys to deploying RFID for advanced object tracking. Generally, multiple reference RF stations or additional sensors are used for the location sensing with RFID, but, particularly in indoor environments, spatial layout and cost problems limit the applicability of those approaches. In this paper, we propose a novel method for location sensing with active RFID systems not requiring the need for reference stations or additional sensors. The system triangulates the position of RF signal source using the signal pattern of the loop antenna connected to the power detector. The power detector consists of a signal strength detector and a signal analysis unit. The signal analysis unit indicates the signal strength and serial number using the signal from the strength detector, and provides the direction of the signal to the application target. We designed three different signal analysis units depending on the threshold type. The developed system can sense the direction to the transponder located over 10 m away within the maximum error of $5^{\circ}$. It falls within a reasonable range in our normal office environment.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.647-654
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• 2010

In a service environment, the spatial layout is an important factor that has a great impact on customers' behavioral characteristics including wayfinding and purchasing. Previous studies have shown a gap between marketing, focusing solely on profitability and satisfaction, and architecture, looking only into efficiency of pedestrian flow. To balance such disparity, this study suggests an integrated approach for assessing behavioral patterns in complex service environments. With the objective that complex service environments should aim to increase its profitability and efficiency while guaranteeing customer satisfaction, quantitative metrics was developed for evaluation. The metrics was defined to use data from behavior observation including path tracking, population counting, and gaze analysis, while previous studies have relied on abstract survey methods that were prone to sampling errors and loss of data. For validation of the metrics in a real world setting, a case study was conducted at 4 train stations in Korea. In the case study, experiments were conducted to gather the required data in all 4 train stations, while their physical layouts were also analyzed. With the results from the case study, comparative evaluation of the 4 train stations in terms of behavioral efficiency was possible, together with a discussion on the effect of their physical settings.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.746-750
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• 2009

In this paper we focus on the Personal Space (PS) as a nonverbal communication concept to build a new Human Computer Interaction. The analysis of people positions with respect to their PS gives an idea on the nature of their relationship. We propose to analyze and model the PS using Computer Vision (CV), and visualize it using Computer Graphics. For this purpose, we define the PS based on four parameters: distance between people, their face orientations, age, and gender. We automatically estimate the first two parameters from image sequences using CV technology, while the two other parameters are set manually. Finally, we calculate the two-dimensional relationship of multiple persons and visualize it as 3D contours in real-time. Our method can sense and visualize invisible and unconscious PS distributions and convey the spatial relationship of users by an intuitive visual representation. The results of this paper can be used to Human Computer Interaction in public spaces.