• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.106-112
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• 2007

Recently the crowd environment in the department of the animation is necessary to the digital industry. The goal of researching a proper crowd animation is to design character animation that is defined by the reality of scenes, performance of system and interaction with users to show the crowd vividly and effectively in cyber underwater. It is important to set up the crowd behavior patterns to represent for moving crowd naturally in cyber space. In the paper, we expressed the behavior patterns for flocks of fish in cyber underwater, and compared with the number of mesh, the number of fish, the number of frame, elapsed time, and resolution and analyzed them with the fish behavior simulating system.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.124-131
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• 2007

Research field on crowd animation can be classified into two major categories. One is to offer realism of the crowd motion and the other is to improve speed of the animation. For the last decade, a lot of research on realism and behavior of crowd have been presented. But lately, research on improving speed seems like more interesting. Therefore, in this paper, we conducted an experiment to analyze what is the main bottleneck of crowd animation. As the result, we find out one of the most important bottleneck is the number of joints transformed in each animation frame. In order to resolve this problem we propose a novel level-of-detail technique 'motion level-of-detail', which is a joint-reduction technique operated in the pre-processing time. We used a non-linear optimization, SQP (sequential quadric programming), to generate the low detailed motions.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.27-35
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• 2006

Crowd behaviors on cyber underwater environment are often produced in entertainment contents, such as films and games. It is easy for us to come in contact with the scenes appearing a lot of characters as digital films and animation works are increased gradually, owing to developing of computer graphics. Though the processing a scene of crowd and the behavior system of crowd, related to the processing techniques of crowd behavior in cyber space, have been implemented so far, the research for developing the natural crowd behavior simulator can not be still satisfying. In this paper, we designed a realistic and efficient Fish Schooling Behavior Simulator for the contents production of cyber underwater environment, which showed each type of fish behavior in cyber underwater smartly, and which generated the animating the behavior automatically, reducing the time and cost.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.158-161
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• 2006

현대 영상산업에서 컴퓨터 그래픽스가 차지하는 비중은 크게 늘어나고 있다. 컴퓨터 그래픽스 기술의 발달로 인한 디지털 영화나 애니메이션이 점차 증가함에 따라 이러한 장면이 등장하는 가상캐릭터를 쉽게 접할 수 있다. 이런 가상 캐릭터를 이용하여 가상 해저 환경을 생성하기 위해서는 3D 모델링 및 애니메이션 기술을 개발해야 한다. 국내에서는 가상 해저 환경을 구축하여 실감 체험을 할 수 있는 VR 콘텐츠 기술 개발에 관련하여 군중 장면 처리 및 군중 행동 시스템의 설계 및 구현 등의 연구가 있었으나 군중 행동 모델러 기술 개발을 실용화 할 단계까지는 미치지 못하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 가상 해저환경에 존재하는 다수의 캐릭터의 움직임을 수작업으로 제공하는 것이 시간과 비용이 많이 소요되기 때문에 이를 자동화하여 보다 사실적이고 효율적인 가상 해저환경 속에서 군중 행동 장면을 생성하기 위해서 Fish 군중 행동 모델러 기술을 개발한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.639-642
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• 2002

오늘날 영화, 게임, 애니메이션 등 다양한 분야에서 사용되고 있는 군중 장면은 모델러의 많은 수작업을 필요로 한다. 모델러에게 있어 배경과 배경 물체들 그리고 수많은 에이전트들을 적절히 배치해야 하며, 매 프레임마다 이들 간에 충돌이 얼도록 적절히 움직여 주어야 하는 수작업은 비능률 적이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 군중 장면 연출 도구를 제작하여 군중들을 배치할 수 있는 방법과, 배경 물체들과 군중 사이 그리고 군중을 이루는 에이전트들 사이의 충돌 회피 방법을 제시한다. 이를 통해 모델러는 군중을 일일이 배치하고, 매 프레임마다 군중을 적절히 움직여 주어야 하는 수작업에 드는 시간을 모델링에 투자함으로 작업 효율을 높일 수 있다. 또한 본 논문의 군중 장면 연출도구는 마야 플러그인으로 개발되어 대표적인 모델링 도구인 마야와 연동하여 군중 장면을 연출할 수 있는 장점을 가진다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.26-34
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• 2008

Due to spread of movies or online games which are applied with computer animation techniques, we can easily see scenes where numerous characters appear. In the case of large-scale crowd animation, if one were to increase reality of the scene, features of system would be lowered, and if one were to increase functioning of system, reality of the scene would be lowered. In realizing large-scale crowd animation with seafloor environment as background, the paper analyzed and applied elements that affect behavioral types of fishes; and by using concept of crowd, the paper enabled each group or object to control their behavioral type; by comparing and contrasting real-time calculation method as calculation method for animation and hybrid calculation method which is mixed calculation method, the paper seeks to find a method that increases functioning of the system while also expresses natural scenes.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.1-9
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• 2009

In virtual environments, such as computer game and animation, we need to enhance naturalness of crowd simulation. So, we propose a method to generate dynamically moving crowd patterns by applying emotional factors to the individual characters of a crowd in the determination of their behavior. The proposed method mimics human behavior and controls each character in a group to decide its own path according to its individual status. And it is able to generate various moving patterns as a result of letting the individuals go to another group depending upon their conditions. In this paper, some temperament and feeling factors are defined and determination rules for calculating the emotional status are also proposed. Moreover we use a fuzzy theory for accurate representation of the ambiguous expressions such as feeling bad, feeling good and so on. Our experiments show that the suggested method can simulate virtual crowd in more natural and diverse ways.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.10-14
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• 2008

Computer-animated crowd scenes are often observed in computer games and feature films. The common way to model locomotion of large human crowds is to employ agent based methods where the behavior of each person is independently modeled. But for large crowds, it is difficult for a user to control all the individuals using individual behavior model. Instead, crowd behaviors can be controlled more intuitively at the group level than at the individual level. In this paper, we present the group force field model to simulate path following behavior for groups. A group is a set of characters who have the same goals, i.e. the same path to follow. We also define three characteristics of grouping behavior: alignment, cohesion, and distribution. Our group force field model preserves these characteristics while avoiding collisions. By using our model, user can generate desired group behaviors from line-up behavior to lumped one.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.517-520
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• 2006

Crowd behavioral scenes in virtual underwater world are presented in many entertainments such as films and games. According to the increase of digital films and animations caused by the development of computer graphics, it is easy for us to meet with the cyber characters in those scenes. Characters which appear in computer animation put life into virtual world. The more characters we have in this virtual space, the deeper we are immersed in the space. There were many researches which processed the crowd scene and implemented the crowd behavior system in Korea. They were related to developing VR contents which were available to feel actually in the construction of the virtual environment. But they are far from reaching the step to put to practical use in developing the crowd behavior modeler. Therefore, we suggestion the fish schooling behavior modeler that provides interaction and action behavior in 3D object to present vividly and effectively in underwater world.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.124-126
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• 2006

가상 해저환경에 존재하는 군중 캐릭터 움직임을 수작업에 의존하는 기존의 애니메이션 제작 방법으로 제작할 경우 많은 시간과 비용이 필요하기 때문에 이를 자동화하여 보다 효율적이고 쉽게 제공하기 위해 장면의 사실성, 시스템의 성능 그리고 사용자와의 상호작용성을 적용하여 자연스러운 해저환경을 표현하고 군중 행동 장면을 생성을 위해서 자동화 기법이 개발되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 군중 행동 시뮬레이터를 개발하여 해저환경속에서 사실적이고 효율적인 객체 표현을 위해 3D 객체에 군중행동양식을 부여하고, 상호작용이 가능하도록 다수의 Fish 군중행동 시뮬레이터를 설계한다.