• Architectural research
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.155-162
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• 2020

Numerous scholars have explored the modeling, control, and optimization of energy systems in buildings, offering new insights about technology and environments that can advance industry innovation. Eye trackers deliver objective eye-gaze data about visual and attentional processes. Due to its flexibility, accuracy, and efficiency in research, eye tracking has a control scheme that makes measuring rapid eye movement in three-dimensional space possible (e.g., virtual reality, augmented reality). Because eye movement is an effective modality for digital interaction with a virtual environment, tracking how users scan a visual field and fix on various digital objects can help designers optimize building environments and materials. Although several scholars have conducted Virtual Reality studies in three-dimensional space, scholars have not agreed on a consistent way to analyze eye tracking data. We conducted eye tracking experiments using objects in three-dimensional space to find an objective way to process quantitative visual data. By applying a 12 × 12 grid framework for eye tracking analysis, we investigated how people gazed at objects in a virtual space wearing a headmounted display. The findings provide an empirical base for a standardized protocol for analyzing eye tracking data in the context of virtual environments.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.131-139
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• 2010

Virtual reality(VR) technology allows users to experience the same sensation as if they look and feel real objects, and furthermore it enables users to experience phenomena in virtual environment which are difficult to illustrate in real world. A multichannel display is one of the virtual reality systems for generating high-quality images and guaranteeing a wide view angle using multiple projectors. In this work, we present the multichannel display system whose resolution is $4096{\times}1536$. We implement an automatic calibration (geometric and color) method for compensating the distorted image and color. The results clearly show the proposed system provides continuous and smooth images.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.179-184
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• 2019

This paper introduces a study for procedurally generating the behavior of objects in a virtual environment at runtime. This study was initiated to enable the behavioral model of objects in virtual reality applications to evolve in response to user behavior at runtime. Our approach is to describe the behavior of an object as a behavior tree, and to make a node of the behavior tree change to another type if a certain condition is satisfied. We defined four types of node changes: "parameterized", "probabilistic", "alternate", and "variant". We experimented with a virtual environment that includes a variety of simple procedural elements to explore the possibilities of our approach. As a result of the implementation, if an optimization algorithm that can select and apply the optimized procedural elements in response to the user's behavior is complemented, it is confirmed that more intelligent objects and agents can be implemented in virtual reality applications.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.560-568
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• 2012

가상공간 구축 기술은 체험 방법이 다기능화 되면서 동작, 소리, 온도, 압력 등을 인식하여 콘텐츠와 사용자가 상호작용이 가능한 지능형 상호작용 기술 분야로 연구가 확대되고 있다. 가상현실 기술은 3D그래픽 기술과 물리 현상을 가상공간에 적용시켜 현실감을 증대시키고, 가상환경에 하드웨어 장치들을 사용하여 몰입감을 증대시키기 위한 방향으로 연구가 진행되고 있다. 가상 수중 환경에 대한 체감형 콘텐츠의 제작은 사용자의 몰입감을 증대시키기 위해 하드웨어 장치들과 해양 콘텐츠를 연계하기 위한 양방향 인터페이스 기술이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 수심 변화에 따른 환경 요인들을 분석하여 정규화된 수중 물리 법칙을 적용함으로써 현실적이고 사실감 있는 가상 수중 환경을 표현하고자 하였다. 또한 스킨스쿠버 체감 시뮬레이터를 가상 수중환경과 연동시킴으로써 수중에 직접 들어가지 않고도 스킨스쿠버를 체험해 볼 수 있는 체감형 콘텐츠를 개발하고자 하였다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2000

In the real environment, it is not easy to get the effective training or to simulate several hazard situations for safety because of the direct exposure to the hazards of the actual system. But the virtual environment(VE) can help the users to get the effective training or to simulate all kind of possible situations without the exposure to the harzards of the actual system. Therefore, the number of virtual reality(VR) application for safety will be increased dramatically in the future. This paper proposes a category of VR applications and also the steps to develope the VE for emergency management.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.856-866
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• 2009

Recent development in game technologies has offered various game environments, but the existing games have not provided realistically felt game environments because the element of the game is virtually generated in most of the games. Therefore, we propose a mixed game environment based on spatial augmented reality by using a creature that really exists. In the proposed game environment, tracking based on camera images created in real-time enables the provision of information about the real creature that is both still and moving. The game environment is presented with virtual object by using the coordinate of a real creature. Then, spatial augmented reality technology is applied for mixing a real creature and virtual game elements. Thus, the game scene is displayed by the spatial augmented reality technique based on the real-time coordinate of real creatures. Moreover, by providing the realistic game environment based on the spatial augmented reality, our system can be applied to various game contents that are actually felt as real. Most importantly, our system arouses the players' interest in a new kind of game environment.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.77-88
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• 2008

Nowadays personal users create a variety of multi-media contents and share them with others through various devices over the Internet since the concept of user created content (UCC) has been widely accepted as a new paradigm in today's multi-media market, which has broken the boundary of contents providers and consumers. This paradigm shift has also introduced a new business model that makes it possible for them to create their own multi-media contents for commercial purpose. This paper proposes a tangible virtual studio using augmented reality to author multi-media contents easily and intuitively for personal broadcasting and personal content generation. It provides a set of tangible interfaces and devices such as visual markers, cameras, movable and rotatable arms carrying cameras, and miniaturized set. They can offer an easy-to-use interface in an immersive environment and an easy switching mechanism between tangible environment and virtual environment. This paper also discusses how to remove inconsistency between real objects and virtual objects during the AR-enabled visualization with a context-adaptable tracking method. The context-adaptable tracking method not only adjusts the locations of invisible markers by interpolating the locations of existing reference markers, but also removes a jumping effect of movable virtual objects when their references are changed from one marker to another.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2000

The paper describes creation methods of background scenes to implement realistic virtual environments in the VRSS (Virtual Reality Ship Simulator). VRSS is next-generation system constructed with virtual tools in a virtual space. Thus, it could have many benefits compared to conventional ship simulators composed with heavy bridge mock-up system and wide visual presentations. In this work, we developed effective 3D object modeling techniques, and constructed virtual harbor scene by using 3D-Webmaster authoring tool. The virtual harbor was built with object-oriented 3D objects modeled to interact with user's action. With the immersion-type VR system, we created virtual harbor environments in a virtual space, and discussed on the naturalness of the scene with test results of SDMPA (Semantic Differential Method for Psychophysical Assessment) by 10 subjects. As the results of subject assessment, all of the participants could felt natural-like harbor. Therefore, we found that the proposed creation methods and procedures of background scene are enabling to fit to the full mission VRSS construction.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2004

This paper presents a prototype visualization system of mixed reality for a VR flight simulator. The chroma key technique is used to build the mixed reality model for a VR flight simulator. The Daedeok science town can be visualized in real time according to the rider control. He can also see his own hand/foot operating the control stick/rudder as well as virtual environment projected to the blue-screen using a video-see-through HMD.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2024

본 연구는 혼합현실과 가상현실을 포함하는 몰입형 가상환경에서 OpenAI의 ChatGPT를 활용한 가상 보조 에이전트의 인터페이스 응용에 관한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 응용 방법은 사용자의 질의에 응답하는 정보 에이전트와 사용자의 요구에 맞춰 가상 객체, 환경 등을 제어하는 제어 에이전트로 구성된다. 이를 위해, Unity 3D 엔진, OpenAI, 그리고 가상현실과 혼합현실 사용자 참여를 위한 패키지 및 개발 도구를 통합하는 개발환경을 설정한다. 그리고 음성 입력으로부터 질문 쿼리에서 답변 쿼리, 또는 제어 요구 쿼리에서 제어 스크립트로 생성으로 연결되는 작업 흐름을 설정한다. 이를 기반으로 혼합현실, 가상현실 체험 환경을 직접 제작하고 에이전트의 성능 확인을 위한 실험을 정보 에이전트의 반응 시간, 제어 에이전트의 정확도로 나누어 진행하였다. 결과적으로 제안하는 인터페이스 응용을 통해 사용자 친화적이고 단순하고 반복적인 작업에서의 효율을 높이는데 유용할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 우리는 새롭게 제안하는 인터페이스를 통해 몰입형 가상환경에서 인터페이스로의 응용에 관한 새로운 방향성을 제시하고 발견된 문제점과 현재까지의 한계점을 분명히 밝힌다.