• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.173-181
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• 2011

Recognition of traffic signs helps an unmanned ground vehicle to decide its behavior correctly, and it can reduce traffic accidents. However, low cost traffic sign recognition using a vision sensor is very difficult because the signs are exposed to various illumination conditions. This paper proposes a new approach to solve this problem using an illuminometer which detects the intensity of illumination. Using the intensity of illumination, the recognizer adjusts the parameters for image processing. Therefore, we can reduce the loss of information such as the shape and color of traffic signs. Experimental results show that the proposed method is able to improve the performance of traffic sign recognition in various weather and lighting conditions.

• 한국정보컨버전스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.185-188
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• 2008

The developments of digital and multimedia have been increasing the demand of humans desiring the acquisition of real and intuitive information and diversified expressions and the use of animation characters are continually increasing in mass media. With the development of graphic techniques, these expressions of animation characters have become enabled of real and smooth representations. Although, in general, even fine movements of the hair of characters can be expressed using diverse data input devices, the studies on the multimedia technologies for disabled persons are quite insufficient. In this paper, Directness it extracts the data which it move sign language and It propose the method which creates a realty 3D sign language gesture.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.86-94
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• 1989

In this paper the method using a sign pattern( +,- ) of Mel-cepstrum coefficients as a new speech representation is proposed. Relatively stable patterns can be obtained for speech signals which has strong stationarity like vowels and nasals, and the phonemic difference according to the individuality of speakers can be absorbed without affecting characteristics of the phoneme. In this paper we show that the reduction of recognition procedure of phonemes and training procedure of phoneme models can be achieved through the representation of Korean phonemes using such a sign pattern.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.548-551
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• 1999

We design a keyframe editor of arms and hands for 3D sign-language animation using inverse kinematics. In the previous study, we acquired only the joint angles of two arms after selecting arbitrarily the shapes of hands. In this paper, both joint angles of arms and hands are calculated by the same transformation matrix of the inverse kinematics. In the method, the design window of arm gestures can be converted into that of hand shapes by clicking a button. Experimental results show a possibility that the proposed method could be used for building up the sign-language communication dictionaries.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.87-97
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• 2016

This paper proposes a fast sound source localization method using a TDOA sign-based algorithm. We present an L-shaped microphone set-up which creates four major regions in the range of $0^{\circ}{\sim}360^{\circ}$ by the intersection of the positive and negative regions of the individual microphone pairs. Then, we make an initial source region prediction based on the signs of two TDOA estimates before computing the azimuth value. Also, we apply a threshold and angle comparison to tackle the existing front-back confusion problem. Our experimental results show that the proposed method is comparable in accuracy to previous three microphone array methods; however, it takes a shorter computation time because we compute only two TDOA values.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.1269-1284
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• 2022

This paper is concerned with the following Schrödinger-Poisson system $$\{\begin{array}{lll}-{\Delta}u+V(x)u+K(x){\phi}u=a(x){\mid}u{\mid}^{p-2}u&&\text{ in }{\mathbb{R}}^3,\\-{\Delta}{\phi}=K(x)u^2&&\text{ in }{\mathbb{R}}^3,\end{array}$$ where 4 < p < 6. For the case that K is nonnegative, V and a are indefinite, we prove the above problem possesses one ground state sign-changing solution with exactly two nodal domains by constraint variational method and quantitative deformation lemma. Moreover, we show that the energy of sign-changing solutions is larger than that of the ground state solutions. The novelty of this paper is that the potential a is indefinite and allowed to vanish at infinity. In this sense, we complement the existing results obtained by Batista and Furtado [5].

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.19-22
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• 2010

A finger language helping hearing impaired people in communication A sign language helping hearing impaired people in communication is not popular to ordinary healthy people. In this paper, we propose a method for real-time sign language recognition from a vision system using color information and fuzzy clustering system. We use YCbCr color model and canny mask to decide the position of hands and the boundary lines. After extracting regions of two hands by applying 8-directional contour tracking algorithm and morphological information, the system uses FCM in classifying sign language signals. In experiment, the proposed method is proven to be sufficiently efficient.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.651-654
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• 1999

In this paper we propose an emotional expression method using a comic model and special marks for effective sign-language communications. Until now we have investigated to produce more realistic facial and emotional expression. When representing only emotional expression, however, a comic expression could be better than the real picture of a face. The comic face is a comic-style expression model in which almost components except the necessary parts like eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth are discarded. In the comic model, we can use some special marks for the purpose of emphasizing various emotions. We represent emotional expression using Action Units(AU) of Facial Action Coding System(FACS) and define Special Unit(SU) for emphasizing the emotions. Experimental results show a possibility that the proposed method could be used efficiently for sign-language image communications.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.785-794
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• 2021

This study investigated the current status of the design and direction of improvement of the sign system of urban railway stations in the Seoul metropolitan area to see how difficult it is for users to use. As a research method, first, a theoretical study on the literature of the urban railway sign system, second, a survey on the current status of the sign design of the Gimpo Goldline in the Seoul metropolitan area, and third, a survey on the actual use of the sign and problems was conducted. As a result of the current status survey, the location sign is in central alignment with the font of the guide sign, and the guidance sign is in front/back alignment according to the location of the entrance and exit. The background of the font is white and the text is dark black to make it look good to the user. On the other hand, guidance sign is written in white color and background color is gray color. Currently, the Gimpo Urban Railway Guidance Sign System is newly produced and installed, but there is a lack of user design and needs design maintenance that can clearly deliver information to users.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.53-62
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• 2011

Although the demand of Variable Message Sign(VMS) has become pervasive in fulfilling the ITS policy, there are still several unsolved problematic issues. The most critical ones of them are inequality and inefficiency of providing traffic information. This paper proposes the Infra-free Variable Message Sign in order to provide useful informations such as road condition, weather, and traffic of the area, where constructing the infrastructure of communication and power supply is relatively very hard. First of all, the characteristics of infra-free Variable Message Sign are studied and analyzed in deep because of differences between normal Variable Message Sign and Infra-free Variable Message Sign in the configuration and the operating method due to the nature of the Infra-free Variable Message Sign. Futhermore, for effective power management of operating Infra-free Variable Message Sign with limited power acquired through stand-alone PV system, new battery connection structure and dynamically variable power managements for the differently shown messages on Variable Message Sign are proposed. The proposed structure in this paper can be applied to not only power management for Infra-free Variable Message Sign but also power management for the various applications using parallel connection battery system.