• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.834-839
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• 2005

When a great variety of services become available to user through the broadband convergence network in the ubiquitous home environment, an intelligent agent is required to deal with the complexity of services and perceive intension of a user. Different from the old-fashioned command-based user interface for selecting services, conversation enables flexible and rich interactions between human and agents, but diverse expressions of the user's background and context make conversation hard to implement by using either user-initiative or system-initiative methods. To deal with the ambiguity of diverse expressions between user and agents, we have to apply hierarchial bayesian networks for the mixed initiative conversation. Missing information from user's query is analyzed by hierarchial bayesian networks to inference the user's intension so that can be collected through the agent's query. We have implemented this approach in ubiquitous home environment by implementing simulation program.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.200-214
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• 2000

In general, it is difficult to transmit a VBR video like MPEG efficiently since MPEG fames are construct with various size. To solve this problem, some bandwidth smoothing techniques are proposed which is based on the prefetching video data into the client buffer with low bandwidth allocation. However these techniques do not provide efficient bandwidth smoothing technology and transmission technique for interactive video services like VCR-like functionality. In this paper, we propose and evaluated a new bandwidth allocation mechanism for interactive video services which has VBR traffic characteristics such a MPEG. This technique provides VCR-like functionality which is not supported on previous techniques and also maximizes the bandwidth utilization when interactive video services are provided. Through our experimental, we prove that the proposed technique dramatically decreases a traffic and guarantee the continuous playback simulaneously.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.6 s.102
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• pp.661-670
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• 2005

According as services that offer multimedia streams are activated on the Internet, users who use these services we increased extremely. As a result of this, the increase of network traffic was occurred. Also it caused the problems such as the discontinuous playback in case of the s#ream playback and the asynchronization between a video and an audio. To solve these problems, it needs a method that guarantee the stable playback of media streams and a method of media transfer that can interact between a service user and media. Existing related researches has achieved the synchronization through various methods, but did not shown the results of satisfaction in the aspect of interaction. In this paper, we inserted the interactive objects in each media file, designed functions that these objects can use each other's information, and solved the interaction and the synchronization between a video and an audio. Also, we solved the discontinuous playback of a stream by the insufficiency of network bandwidth through using variable buffers.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.60-63
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• 2019

사용자와 자연어 음성을 통해 상호작용하는 대화 시스템이 주목받고 있다. 음성 뿐 아니라, 화면을 통해 사용자와 상호작용하는 기능을 제공하는 대화 시스템들이 소개되고 있으며, 최근에는 혼합 현실 환경에서 대화 에이전트가 실제 공간에 존재하는 서비스가 소개되기도 하였다. 본 연구에서는 혼합 현실 환경의 대화 시스템이 현실 세계에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 시스템을 설계하였다. 제안하는 시스템은 서버가 클라이언트와 통신하여 필요 시 적절한 장치를 제어하도록 설계되었다. 본 연구 시스템의 실현가능성을 입증하기 위해 라즈베리파이를 제어할 장치로 사용하였으며, 화면에 보이는 대화 에이전트에게 음성으로 명령하여 전등, 에어컨 등을 제어하는 것이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• TTA Journal
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• s.40
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• pp.58-68
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• 1995

최근 정보 기술의 비약적인 발전으로 영상서비스에 일대 혁신이 일어나고 있으며, 급기야는 방송과 통신이 융합된 멀티미디어 서비스의 보급이 실체화되고, 그 일례로 일반 가입자에게 전화, TV 컴퓨터가 결합한 가정용 미래형 TV 모델을 보급시키기에 이르렀다. 이것은 디지털을 기본으로 한 TV위의 장치로 혹은 원거리 중앙에의 컴퓨터 처리에 의해 영화나 게임 등의 각종 비디오 정보를 수신할 수 있는 것으로 발전된 것이다. 그 결과 양방향 대화형 미디어가 등장하게 되었으며, 지금 세계 각국에서 추진하고 있는 ''정보 고속도로''와 함께 양방향 대화형 미디어 서비스 중에서 가장 먼저 구체화되고 있는 서비스가 바로 주문자 요구형 비디오, 즉 Video On Demand(VOD) 서비스이다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 VOD 서비스 시스팀의 개요 및 국내외 동향 등을 알아보았으며, 또한 VOD 시스팀 구성과 그에 따른 VOD시스팀의 구성 요소들에 대한 설계 및 동작들에 대하여 설명하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.303-308
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• 2000

VOD(Video-On-Demand) 시스템에서 제한 없는 VCR 서비스는 클라이언트들의 개별 서비스 요청에 대하여 유일한 비디오 스트림을 할당함으로서 제공될 수 있다. 이 방식은 서버 부하의 증가와 부족한 네트워크 자원의 고갈 등과 같은 중대한 문제점을 갖고 있으나 클라이언트의 셋톱박스에 버퍼를 구현함으로서 매우 제한된 VCR 기능을 제공하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 대화형 VOD 시스템에서 제한 없는 VCR 기능을 제공할 수 있는 새로운 MBA(Multicast Buffering Algorithm) 알고리듬을 제안한다. MBA 알고리듬 하에서 VCR 서비스는 버퍼가 동적으로 확장되어 비디오 데이터를 저장하기 때문에 사용자에게 제한 없이 제공되어진다. 또한 MBA 알고리듬은 버퍼의 사용 효율을 증대시키는 방법을 제공하며 모든 클라이언트들의 서비스 요청을 지연 없이 즉시 처리하므로 사용자들에게 진정한 대화형 VOD 서비스를 제공하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 MBA 알고리듬을 이용하여 지연 없는 VCR 기능을 갖춘 VOD 서비스를 구현하였으며 시뮬레이션 결과는 MBA 알고리듬이 다른 버퍼링 방식과 비교하여 매우 우수한 성능을 갖고 있음을 보여주고 있다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.552-559
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• 2008

Computing technologies are extending the means by which people communicate. Especially, virtual worlds have recently become successful, due to rapidly improving Information Technologies. Chat is a crucial function in current virtual worlds. We need a realistic and efficient communication framework for multi-agents participating in a virtual world. The main contribution of our work is twofold. First, we propose a realistic communication framework which enables 'Complete Talk' and 'Partial Talk' in terms of spatial relationships between avatar agents. Second, our system reconstructs a dialogue graph which maintains all transcripts in the form of directed graphs with temporal(dialogue sequences) and spatial information(physical positions) about communicating agents.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.367-376
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• 1999

A variable bit-rate based video services have much limitation for bandwidth management, since its trarfic has a some variances in frame level. In particular, the bandwidth management for video which has characteristics of VBR traffic such a MPEG video could be more complicated. Also, it is difficult to manage the bandwidth effectively for proving a VCR function from VOD service, since we don't know the traffic variance exactly at that time. In this paper, we proposed the dynamic bandwidth allocation a scheme based on VBR traffic based stored video such as MPEG for interactive video service. This scheme can maximize the given total bandwidth through the prefetch based variable length bandwidth allocation scheme and dynamic bandwidth management scheme for multiple streams. Also, our scheme can be used for a MPEG-based bandwidth allocation scheme, and provides the method that can maximize the utilization of network resource for multiple stream by using a dynamic bandwidth management.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.344-355
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• 2006

In daily activities, the interaction between humans and robots is very important for supporting the user's task effectively. Dialogue may be useful to increase the flexibility and facility of interaction between them. Traditional studies of robots have only dealt with simple queries like commands for interaction, but in real conversation it is more complex and various for using many ways of expression, so people can often omit some words relying on the background knowledge or the context of the discourse. Since the same queries can have various meaning by this reason, it is needed to manage this situation. In this paper we propose a method that uses hierarchical bayesian networks to implement mixed-initiative interaction for managing vagueness of conversation in the service robot. We have verified the usefulness of the proposed method through the simulation of the service robot and usability test.

• 정보화사회
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• s.104
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• pp.17-19
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• 1996

앞으로 2010년대에는 DAVIC의 VOD 대화식이 도입되면서 멀티미디어의 새로운 시대로 많은 발전이 있을 것으로 예상된다.