• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1096-1102
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• 2014

In remote gaze tracking system using infra-red LEDs, calibrating the position of reflected light is essential for computing pupil position in captured images. However, there are limitations in reducing errors because variable locations of head and unknown radius of cornea are involved in the calibration process as constants. This study purposes a gaze tracking method based on pupil-corneal reflection that does not require user-calibration. Our goal is to eliminate the correction process of glint positions, which require a prior calibration, so that the gaze calculation is simplified.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.55-65
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• 2007

This paper sought to investigate pupil size variability, pupil size parameters in terms of time domain and frequency domain, the autonomic activity change induced by posture change, degree of sleepiness and cognitive task (math task). With a specially designed pupil image acquisition system in the dark room, these three kinds of experiments were performed to induce a dominant state of sympathetic or parasympathetic activation. Electrocardiogram and pupil size were measured in all the experiments. Based on three experiments, we calculated heart rate variability. In the pupil size analysis, we calculated the mean and standard deviation of pupil size (in time domain), and proposed several frequency bands that exhibit different autonomic activation between different sessions. The results indicate that in terms of heart rate variability, posture change exhibited significant differences but not between sleepiness level, or between cognitive task. Pupil sizes differed only during the postures. And we found some frequency bands that correlated with autonomic activation in each experiment. While heart rate variability reflects posture change that need cardiac control, pupil size variability reflects not only posture induced autonomic activation but sleepiness and cognitive load, which is processed in the brain, in time and frequency domain parameter.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.1646-1654
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• 2017

Pupil size variation can not be controlled intentionally by the user and includes various features such as the blinking frequency and the duration of a blink, so it is suitable for understanding the user's emotional state. In addition, an ocular feature based emotion classification method should be studied for virtual and augmented reality, which is expected to be applied to various fields. In this paper, we propose a novel emotion classification based on CNN with pupil size variation signals which include not only various ocular feature information but also time information. As a result, compared to previous studies using the same database, the proposed method showed improved results of 5.99% and 12.98% respectively from arousal and valence emotion classification.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.05b
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• pp.890-893
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• 2010

알코올 섭취 후 발생하는 해부생리학적 변화가 눈의 일시적인 근시화에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 하였다. 평균 24.5${\pm}$1.5세의 남자 8명(16 안)을 대상으로 0.42 g/kg의 알코올을 30분 간에 걸쳐 섭취토록 한 다음, 알코올 섭취 1시간, 4시간, 24시간 후의 교정굴절력, 각막곡률반경과 두께, 동공직경, 안압, 그리고 안구축의 길이변화를 측정하여 알코올 섭취 전과 비교하였다. 알코올 섭취 1시간 후에 알코올 섭취 전과 비교하여 호흡 중 알코올 농도가 가장 높았고(p<0.001), 교정굴절력의 구면 (-)굴절력 증가(p<0.05), 동공 크기의 감소(p<0.05), 안압의 하강(p<0.001), 그리고 안구축의 길이 증가가 나타났다. 알코올 섭취 4시간 후에도 모든 측정값들이 섭취 1시간 후와 동일한 경향이었다. 그러나 알코올 섭취 24시간 후에는 알코올 섭취 전과 비교하여 의의있는 변화를 보이지 않았다. 알코올 섭취로 인한 일시적인 근시화는 안압하강과 안구축의 길이변화와 관련성이 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.79-85
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• 2004

We report on a transmittance controlled photomask with phase patterns on the back quartz surface. Theoretical analysis for changes in illumination pupil shape with respect to the variation of size and density of backside phase patterns and experimental results for improvement of critical dimension uniformity on a wafer by using the transmittance controlled photomask are presented. As phase patterns for controlling transmittance of the photomask we used etched contact-hole type patterns with 180" rotative phase with respect to the unetched region. It is shown that pattern size on the backside of the photomask must be made as small as possible in order to keep the illumination pupil shape as close as possible to the original pupil shape and to achieve as large an illumination intensity drop as possible at a same pattern density. The distribution of illumination intensity drop suitable for correcting critical dimension error was realized by controlling pattern density of the contact-hole type phase patterns. We applied this transmittance controlled photomask to a critical layer of DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) having a 140nm design rule and could achieve improvement of the critical dimension uniformity value from 24.0 nm to 10.7 nm in 3$\sigma$.TEX>.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.465-472
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• 2008

Fabrication of nanostructured materials and synthesis of nanomaterials have intensively studied to realize electronic devices for nanotechnology. By using nanoporous alumina mask, nanostructured material can be fabricated in the form of uniform array. The size and the density of the nanostructured materials can be controllable by changing the pore diameter and the density of the alumina mask. This method is possible low cost and on large scale process, and feasible to contribute the fusion technology consisting of information technology, nanotechnology, and biotechnology. Therefore, these techniques provide alternative approaches for development of new electronic applications. In this paper, the fabrication technique and its applications of nanoporous alumina mask are described and nanostructured materials such as quantum dots, nanoholes, and nanorods are introduced.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1895-1898
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• 2003

양안 입체 TV 에서는 3 차원 카메라의 시점거리에 따라 눈의 편안함과 3 차원 효과 사이에 대차 관계가 존재한다. 일반적으로 카메라 사이의 거리가 인간의 동공 사이의 거리인 65㎜ 일 때 최적의 효과를 낸다고 한다. 그러나 일반적인 방송용 화질의 상용 카메라는 렌즈 크기가 크기 때문에 이 거리를 맞춘 3 차원 카메라를 제작하기는 매우 어렵다. 그래서 보기 편한 양안입체 영상을 제공하기 위해서는 스테레오 카메라에서 얻은 영상을 조작하여 원하는 가상 시점에서의 영상으로 만들어 줄 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 적응적 다중 창틀 정합을 이용한 계층적 변이 추정을 사용하여 변이 지도를 추출하고, 이것을 이용하여 가상 시점에서의 영상을 합성했다. 다양한 스테레오 영상을 이용한 실험을 통해 제안된 기법의 타당성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.82-85
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• 1998

1. 서론 : Cyclodextrin(CD) 동족체(homologues)는 $\alpha$-, $\beta$-, $\gamma$-CD로 구분되며, 이들 각각은 $\alpha$-D-glucopyranose 단위체 6,7, 및 8개가 비환원성 환상구조로 연결된 cyclic maltooligosaccaride의 일종으로 외부는 친수성이고, 내부는 소수성인 공동 구조를 갖고 있다. 따라서 각 CD는 동공의 크기가 달라 다른 크기의 소수성 물질들과 선택적인 포접화합물 (inclusion compound)을 형성하는 특징이 있다. CD 동족체는 전분 분해 효소인 cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase(CGTase)에 의해 전분으로부터 생산되는데, 반응용액 내에서의 CD 동족체 농도가 어느 한계값 이상으로 높아지면 생산물 저해와 다른 환원당으로의 분해 때문에 생산성이 감소하여 이의 효과적 생산에 어려움이 있다. 본 연구는 dead-end 및 cross-flow형 막 생물반응기를 사용하여 CGTase에 의한 전분의 CD 동족체로의 분해반응시 생산물 저해를 억제시켜 생산성을 향상시키고, 동시에 조작조건 변화에 따른 생산물인 CD 동족체의 효과적인 연속분리 가능성을 검토하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.100-107
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• 2004

The nano or micro sized structures of conducting polymer had been prepared by synthesizing the desired polymer within the pores of template of nano or micro porous membrane filter. In this study, we had tried to fabricate conducting polymer microstructures on an electrode by using electrochemical deposition adopting template synthesis. Our attention was focused on two different things, attaching template on the electrode and fabricating microstructures only at limited areas of the electrode. A conducting polymer, PEDiTT (poly 3,4-ethylenedithi-athiophene) solution was blended with PVA(polyvinyl alcohol) solution and used as an conducting adhesive. After attaching template membrane, the electrode were immersed in 0.5M pyrrole in 0.1M KCI solution, and electrochemical polymerization was performed. The growth process of the microstructures studied by SEM. The electrochemical fabrication of conducting polymer was performed by using two-electrode system. A large working electrode and a micro scale disc electrode were used for the confined area synthesis. Polymerization potential was 4V in an electrolytic solution made of KCI in deionized water. The optimum polymerization conditions were, i.e. (4V/100sec) for $250{\mu}m$ electrode and (6V/30 sec) for $10{\mu}m$ electrode.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.136-144
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to examined the unconscious response of the pupil in the observation toward the image in the eye-tracking experiments that target on a large complex cultural space. Twenty-five men participated in this experiment and the observation data were analyzed in seconds per minute on watching time. It could examine the unconscious response of information searching in the change of pupil size in the process of observing the space. The results could be defined as following several points. First, it was possible to outline the unconscious response characteristics of pupil by analyzing sudden changes in pupil size as total, cumulative, and individual. The response characteristics using frequency and time can be utilized as the analytical method to examine the degree of interest of spatial components according to the purpose of analysis in the future. Second, according to the over ${\pm}5%$ of cumulative variation rate on the pupil size change, during in the 60 seconds, the continuous pupil dilation was used 25.2 seconds in 8.8 rounds and the pupil reduction was used 18.0 seconds in 7.0 rounds. Third, when the variation rate of ${\pm}5%$ or more was regarded as the sudden changes on pupil size by individual variation, the pupil dilation was 7.2 rounds of 8.6 seconds and pupil reduction was 6.0 seconds in 5.0 rounds. This means that the pupil increases 9.3% in one expansion and decreases -8.5% in the reduction process. As regarding pupil changes as cumulative rate, it appeared high change rate on pupil reduction but it became higher on pupil dilation in individual.