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Design and Implementation of Driving System for Face Tracking Camera using Fuzzy Control (퍼지제어를 이용한 얼굴추적 카메라 구동 시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • 이종배;임준홍
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, the speed control problem of moving camera is investigated for tracking the movement of the human-face. The camera system with pan-tilt mechanism sends an image to PC and PC sends back tracking coordinate to the camera. Then the camera tracks a human face in real time. The speed of the stepping motors for moving the camera must be controlled to the target region fast enough and smoothly, In this paper, a fuzzy logic controller is proposed for driving step motors. By creating driving acceleration and deceleration speed Profile, the speed of the motors is controled fast and smoothly. Experiments are performed to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Performance Improvement of an AHRS for Motion Capture (모션 캡쳐를 위한 AHRS의 성능 향상)

  • Kim, Min-Kyoung;Kim, Tae Yeon;Lyou, Joon
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.1167-1172
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    • 2015
  • This paper describes the implementation of wearable AHRS for an electromagnetic motion capture system that can trace and analyze human motion on the principal nine axes of inertial sensors. The module provides a three-dimensional (3D) attitude and heading angles combining MEMS gyroscopes, accelerometers, and magnetometers based on the extended Kalman filter, and transmits the motion data to the 3D simulation via Wi-Fi to realize the unrestrained movement in open spaces. In particular, the accelerometer in AHRS is supposed to measure only the acceleration of gravity, but when a sensor moves with an external linear acceleration, the estimated linear acceleration could compensate the accelerometer data in order to improve the precision of measuring gravity direction. In addition, when an AHRS is attached in an arbitrary position of the human body, the compensation of the axis of rotation could improve the accuracy of the motion capture system.

A Study on Aesthetic Characteristics of Drapery Costume (드레이퍼리 의상의 미적 특성)

  • Ahn, Sun-Hee;Lee, Myoung-Hee
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.396-406
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    • 2009
  • Drapery costume started with using one fabric to loosely wrap around one's body without using technical skills or needlework. Drapery becomes a beautiful and indeterminate form of pleated costume which determines the costume silhouette and serves as an essential component for the composition of artistic costume. The purpose of this study was to examine the aesthetic characteristics of drapery costume using literature review. The study methods include considerations of the formation process of drapery costume with the analysis of costume in pictures. For modern costume designs, the study analyzed the designer's dress with a focus on drapery forms, which appeared in the collections from 2001 to 2007. First, drapery costume contains the beauty of human body. Drapery costume reveals the smallest movement of the body. The beauty of drapes, which is naturally revealed along the curve of the body, and the pleats which form on the soft cloth create the beauty of body. Second, drapery costume has rhythmical beauty. Drapery pleats feature not only functions, but also unique formativeness that provides rhythmicity and regular or irregular direction effects by line. Third, drapery costume features elegant beauty. Bias cutting by draping can effectively express the elegant characteristics of the fabric. In making a piece of clothing, the composition method can express elegant beauty by covering up the shortcomings of the fitting and by fitting to the body line without cutting the fabric, or fitting it by bias cutting.

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A Study on the Encoding of Literature Therapy in the Third Line of the Poem 'Morning' Written by Cho Ji-Hoon (조지훈의 시 「아침」의 3번째 행에 나타나는 문학치료 부호화 연구)

  • Park, In-kwa
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.123-129
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to utilize emotional movement and developmental process in literary therapy. So, I tried to reveal the process of the emotional channel that works in the human body when we deal with literary works. As a result, the emotions confirmed that the emotional codes in the human body were pulled from each other and gathered to the positions of amino acids when the shears were spoken. However, it was judged emotionally to act as a catalyst for the synthesis of amino acids. Of course, this is a humanistic and convergent argument, not a medical proof. However, if these studies continue, it will contribute to making people think more healthily.

Literary Therapeutics of Brownian Motion in Hwang Jin-yi's Sijo (황진이 시조에 나타나는 브라운운동의 문학치료학)

  • Park, In-Kwa
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.159-163
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    • 2018
  • This study describes Brownian motion of human narrative in physiological perspective. The purpose of this study is to investigate how these functions appear in literary works and to apply them to the practice of literary therapy in the future. Hwang Jin-yi's sijo is the first to cut off the longing. Then, It fold that longing and keep it. Finally, It is to unfold those longing. In this folded and unfolded movement, this Sijo is vibrated. This is the Brownian motion of Sijo. In this, the Sijo completes endless love. Using the Brownian motion of these literary feelings, it seems that literary therapy can form conditions of human physiological healing.

A New Eye Tracking Method as a Smartphone Interface

  • Lee, Eui Chul;Park, Min Woo
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.834-848
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    • 2013
  • To effectively use these functions many kinds of human-phone interface are used such as touch, voice, and gesture. However, the most important touch interface cannot be used in case of hand disabled person or busy both hands. Although eye tracking is a superb human-computer interface method, it has not been applied to smartphones because of the small screen size, the frequently changing geometric position between the user's face and phone screen, and the low resolution of the frontal cameras. In this paper, a new eye tracking method is proposed to act as a smartphone user interface. To maximize eye image resolution, a zoom lens and three infrared LEDs are adopted. Our proposed method has following novelties. Firstly, appropriate camera specification and image resolution are analyzed in order to smartphone based gaze tracking method. Secondly, facial movement is allowable in case of one eye region is included in image. Thirdly, the proposed method can be operated in case of both landscape and portrait screen modes. Fourthly, only two LED reflective positions are used in order to calculate gaze position on the basis of 2D geometric relation between reflective rectangle and screen. Fifthly, a prototype mock-up design module is made in order to confirm feasibility for applying to actual smart-phone. Experimental results showed that the gaze estimation error was about 31 pixels at a screen resolution of $480{\times}800$ and the average hit ratio of a $5{\times}4$ icon grid was 94.6%.

ΔFY Mutation in Human Torsina Induces Locomotor Disability and Abberant Synaptic Structures in Drosophila

  • Lee, Dae-Weon;Seo, Jong Bok;Ganetzky, Barry;Koh, Young-Ho
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2009
  • We investigate the molecular and cellular etiologies that underlie the deletion of the six amino acid residues (${\Delta}F323-Y328$; ${\Delta}FY$) in human torsin A (HtorA). The most common and severe mutation involved with early-onset torsion dystonia is a glutamic acid deletion (${\Delta}E$ 302/303; ${\Delta}E$) in HtorA which induces protein aggregates in neurons and cells. Even though ${\Delta}FY$ HtorA forms no protein clusters, flies expressing ${\Delta}FY$ HtorA in neurons or muscles manifested a similar but delayed onset of adult locomotor disability compared with flies expressing ${\Delta}E$ in HtorA. In addition, flies expressing ${\Delta}FY$ HtorA had fewer aberrant ultrastructures at synapses compared with flies expressing ${\Delta}E$ HtorA. Taken together, the ${\Delta}FY$ mutation in HtorA may be responsible for behavioral and anatomical aberrations in Drosophila.

Anti-inflammatory Effect of 9-cis Retinoic Acid on the Human Mast Cell Line, HMC-1

  • Lee, Ji-Sook;Kim, In-Sik
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.149-152
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    • 2007
  • Mast cells play important roles in immune-related diseases, in particular, allergic diseases. Although 9-cis retinoic acid (9CRA) has been known as an immune regulator, its function in mast cells is not characterized well. In a previous paper, we demonstrated that 9CRA differentially decreases both CCR2 expression and the MCP-1-induced chemotactic activity of the human mast cell line, HMC-1 cells. In the present study, we examined the effects of 9CRA on the migration and expressions of inflammatory cytokines in HMC-1 cells. It was found that 9CRA significantly inhibited the migration of HMC-1 cells in response to stem cell factor (P<0.01), and it had no effect on the mRNA and protein expression of c-kit, a receptor binding to SCF. We further investigated the alternation of inflammatory cytokine expression and identified that 9CRA blocked the mRNA and protein expressions of Th2 cytokines such as interleukin (IL)-4 and IL-5. Taken together, our results demonstrate that 9CRA blocks SCF-induced cell movement and the protein secretion of IL-4 and IL-5, and this indicates that 9CRA may have anti-inflammatory effects on mast cells.

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Influence of Dither Motion on the Friction Coefficient of a Capsule-type Endoscope (디더 운동이 캡슐형 내시경의 마찰계수 감소에 미치는 영향)

  • Hong Y.S.;Choi M.J.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1068-1073
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    • 2005
  • Development of a locomotive mechanism for the capsule type endoscopes will largely enhance the ability to diagnose disease of digestive organs. In connection with it, most of the researches have focused on an installable locomotive mechanism in the capsule. In this paper, it is introduced that the movement of a capsule type endoscope in digestive organ can be manipulated by magnetic force produced outside human body. Since the magnetic force is provided by permanent magnets, no additional power supply to the capsule is required. Using a robotic manipulator for locating the external magnet, the capsule motion control system can cover the whole human digestive organs. This study is particularly concentrated on dither motion effect to improve the mobility of capsule type endoscope. It was experimentally found out that the friction coefficient between the capsule and digestive organ can be remarkably reduced by superposing yawing or rolling dither motion on the translatory motion. In this paper, the experimental results obtained while the direction, amplitude and frequency of sinusoidal dither motion were changed are reported.

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Neurobiological Effects of Methamphetamine Abuse on Neurotransmitters: A Review (흥분제(Psychostimulants)에 대한 신경생물학 측면의 고찰 -Methamphetamine 남용을 중심으로)

  • Lee Tae Kyung;Jon E. Grant;Kim, Suck Won;Oh Dong Yul
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Clinical Toxicology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.21-26
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    • 2003
  • Methamphetamine (MA) is a major drug of abuse in Korea. Currently preliminary evidence suggests that MA dependence may cause long-term neural damage in human. Repeated exposure to psychostimulants such as methamphetamine results in behavioral sensitization, a paradigm thought to be relevant to drug craving and addiction in human. Sensitization alters neural circuitry involved in normal processes of incentrive, motivation, and reward. However the precise mechanism of this behavioral sensitization has not yet been fully elucidated. Repeated use of high dose MA causes neurotoxicity which is characterized by a long-lasting depletion of striatal dopamine (DA) and tyrosin hydroxylase activity of DA, DA-transporter binding sites in the striatum. The loss of DA transporters correlates with memory problems and lack of motor coordination. DA fuels motivation and pleasure, but it' s also crucial for learning and movement. This selective review provides a summary of studies that assess the neurobiological mechanisms of MA.

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