• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.469-477
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• 2008

Physically-based rendering is an image synthesis technique based on simulation of physical interactions between light and surface materials. Since generated images are highly photorealistic, physically-based rendering has become an indispensable tool in advanced design visualization for manufacturing and architecture as well as in film VFX and animations. Especially, BRDF (bidirectional reflectance distribution function) is critical in realistic visualization of materials since it models how an incoming light is reflected on the surface in terms of intensity and outgoing angles. In this paper, we introduce techniques to represent BRDF as B-spline volumes and to utilize them in physically-based rendering. We show that B-spline volume BRDF (BVB) representation is suitable for measured BRDFs due to its compact size without quality loss in rendering. Moreover, various CAGD techniques can be applied to B-spline volume BRDFs for further controls such as refinement and blending.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.01a
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• pp.399-402
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 빛에 영향에 따른 유화의 변화를 보여주기 위해 2D 이미지 재조명과 색채변화를 반영한 회화적 렌더링 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 2D 이미지를 재조명하고 해당 음영 값을 가중치로 하여 색채변화를 반영해 렌더링한다. 이때 재조명의 경우 2D 이미지를 3D 이미지로 근사 추정하여 노말값을 결정하고 해당 값과 조명 위치값 사이의 각을 음영 값으로 추출하여 반영한다. 조명 위치는 사용자가 지정 가능하며 빛에 영향에 따른 색채변화 결과는 기존에 연구된 결과를 참조한다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 로컬 이미지에 근사한 자동 회화적 렌더링이 보여주는 단순하고 평면적인 결과에 비해, 재조명을 통해 빛바랜 색과 양감을 반영함으로써 현실에 존재하는 작품처럼 생동적이고 입체적인 렌더링 결과를 제공하여 문화예술작품으로의 표현 및 색채변화 예측-복원에 기여하고자한다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.449-454
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• 2009

The human face has "expression" as an important visual factor in contrast with general objects. For this reason, cartoonists draw shadow that emphasizes facial shape and facial expression in order to convey atmosphere of scene and trait of character. This shadow should be considered when doing cartoon rendering for facial expression although it is not an physical shading. This paper proposes a cartoon rendering system for facial expression based on shading techniques of real cartoonist. First of all, we searched such techniques of cartoonist through variety of collected cartoon images and defined shadow templates according to character's facial expression to do cartoon rendering diffently. After that, we demonstrated cartoon rendering system of facial expression on the basis of survey result that effectively emphasizes facial shape and facial expression. Finally, we showed the usefulness through the user questionnaire.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.67-75
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• 2011

We propose a novel non-photorealistic rendering technique which generates a cutout animation from a video for UCC. Our method consists of four parts. First, we construct an interactive system to build an articulated character. Second, we extract motions from an input video. Third, we transform motions of a character in order to reflect characteristics of cutout animations. Fourth, we render the extracted or transformed components in cutout animation style. We developed a unified system for a user to easily create a cutout animation from an input video and showed the system generated a cutout animation efficiently.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.871-877
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• 2006

물체의 반사(specular reflection)는 물체의 재질 및 기하학적 모양을 표현하는데 있어 매우중요한 요소이다. 사진품질의 사실적 렌더링에서는 기존의 국소 반사 모델을 사용하여 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있지만, 사용자의 주관이 중시되는 비사실적 렌더링(non-photorealistic rendering)에서는 사용자가 원하는 반사 효과를 표현할 수 있어야 한다. 텍스처는 사용자가 직관적으로 원하는 반사 효과를 표현할 수 있는 수단이며, 이를 모델에 투영하면 원하는 반사효과를 얻을 수 있다. 이 때 사용자는 텍스처가 투영될 위치와 크기, 방향을 직접 키프레임으로 정해 줄 수 있다. 그러나 모든 반사 효과를 사용자가 직접 정해준다는 것은 번거로운 일이며, 실시간 응용분야에는 적용할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 국소반사모델(local reflection model)과 주곡률(principal curvature) 해석을 통해 반사효과의 위치, 방향, 크기를 결정하기 위한 텍스처 투영기의 새로운 설정 방법을 제시한다. 광원과 시점 정보를 사용하여 투영기의 위치를 정하고 물체의 주방향(principal direction)과 곡률반지름(radius of curvature)을 이용하여 투영기의 방향과 투영 피라미드의 크기를 정한다 텍스처 투영기의 단순한 이동, 회전을 통하여 반사 영역의 이동, 회전 및 확대/축소가 가능하다. 본 논문에서 제시한 방법은 DirectX 9.0c와 프로그래이 가능한 셰이더 2.0을 사용하여 GeForce FX 7800 그래픽 카드에 구현되었다. 본 논문의 연구 결과는 게임과 같은 실시간 응용분야에 사용될 수 있으며, 실험 결과에 의하면 수천 개의 다면체 모델에 대한 렌더링을 실시간에 수행할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10b
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• pp.190-193
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• 2007

3차원 그래픽을 추상화시켜서 표현하는 비실사(Non-Photorealistic Rendering) 기법은 실사기법에 비해 사용자와의 원활한 커뮤니케이션을 이끌어 낼 수 있고 다양한 예술적 효과를 표현할 수 있다는 점에서 주목을 받고 있다. 지금까지 비실사 기법에 관한 연구는 서양적 미술 기법에 중점을 두고 연구되어 왔으나, 최근 한국적인 미술 기법인 수묵화 기법을 적용한 연구에 관심이 높아지고 있다. 기존의 서양적 비실사 기법에서는 프리폼 스케치 알고리즘에 관한 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 사용자는 이를 이용해 마우스나 펜의 조작만으로 쉽게 모델을 제작할 수 있고 다양한 렌더링 기법을 직접 적용해볼 수 있다. 반면에, 동양적 비실사 기법에서는 프리폼 스케치 알고리즘에 관한 연구가 부족하기 때문에 동양적 비실사 기법에 적합한 모델을 생성하기 어렵다. 이에 본 논문에서는 동양적 프리폼 스케치 알고리즘 연구에 대한 기초 연구로 2D스케치로부터 사군자 중 하나인 #난(蘭)# 에 해당하는 3D 모델을 생성할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.9-14
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• 2000

Non-Photorealistic rendering techniques, such as toon rendering, can enhance the quality of hand-drawn cell-animation images greatly with less effort. For this reason, to on rendering is one of the popular techniques used in the cell-animation image production field. The existing toon rendering techniques, however, have not been effective enough for the real-time image processing that the techniques have not been adequate for some processes that needs immediate responses such as virtual-realities, or video games. This paper will suggest the real-time toon rendering to overcome the limits through real-time outline detection and phong shading. In addition, a effective result-image is created as adding a shadow and a execution time remains by real-time through fast shadow generation algorithm.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.130-139
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• 2023

With the increasing popularity of computer-generated virtual influencers, the trend is rising especially on social media. Famous virtual influencer characters Lil Miquela and Imma were all created by CGI graphics workflows. The process is typically a linear affair. Iteration is challenging and costly. Development efforts are frequently siloed off from one another. Moreover, it does not provide a real-time interactive experience. In the previous study, a real-time graphic workflow was proposed for the Digital Actor Hologram project while the output graphic quality is less than the results obtained from the CGI graphic workflow. Therefore, a real-time engine graphic workflow for Virtual Influencers is proposed in this paper to facilitate the creation of real-time interactive functions and realistic graphic quality. The real-time graphic workflow is obtained from four processes: Facial Modeling, Facial Texture, Material Shader, and Look-Development. The analysis of performance with real-time graphical workflow for Digital Actor Hologram demonstrates the usefulness of this research result. Our research will be efficient in producing virtual influencers.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.737-753
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• 2021

As the demand for high-quality rendering for mixed reality, videogame, and simulation has increased, global illumination has been actively researched. Monte Carlo path tracing can realize global illumination and produce photorealistic scenes that include critical effects such as color bleeding, caustics, multiple light, and shadows. If the sampling rate is insufficient, however, the rendered results have a large amount of noise. The most successful approach to eliminating or reducing Monte Carlo noise uses a feature-based filter. It exploits the scene characteristics such as a position within a world coordinate and a shading normal. In general, the techniques are based on the denoised pixel or sample and are computationally expensive. However, the main challenge for all of them is to find the appropriate weights for every feature while preserving the details of the scene. In this paper, we compare the recent algorithms for removing Monte Carlo noise in terms of their performance and quality. We also describe their advantages and disadvantages. As far as we know, this study is the first in the world to compare the artificial intelligence-based denoising methods for Monte Carlo rendering.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.239-240
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• 2023

Construction site management involves overseeing tasks from the construction phase to the maintenance stage, and digitalization of construction sites is necessary for digital construction site management. In this study, we aim to conduct research on object recognition at construction sites using drones. Images of construction sites captured by drones are reconstructed into BIM (Building Information Modeling) models, and objects are recognized after partially rendering the models using artificial intelligence. For the photorealistic rendering of the BIM models, both traditional filtering techniques and the generative adversarial network (GAN) model were used, while the YOLO (You Only Look Once) model was employed for object recognition. This study is expected to provide insights into the research direction of digital construction site management and help assess the potential and future value of introducing artificial intelligence in the construction industry.