• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.3-9
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• 2005

무선통신 기술과 정보 기술을 이용해서 사용자 무선 단말에 다양한 정보를 제공하는 텔레매틱스 서비스는 차량 운전자, 탑승자 및 보행자 등 사용자에 따라 다양한 형태의 서비스로 진화하고 있다. 또한 무선통신망의 발전으로 인해 광대역 통신의 대용량 텔레매틱스 서비스로의 발전이 기대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 텔레매틱스 서비스 중에서 대중교통의 편리한 사용을 위한 보행자 위주의 길안내 서비스에 대해 논한다. 보행자 대중교통 안내 서비스를 위한 요구 사항을 기반으로 서비스 기능을 정의하고 서비스를 분류함으로써 보행자의 도보 및 대중교통 안내 서비스를 제안한다. 보행자 대중교통 안내 서비스는 보행자 도보 길안내 기능, 출발지와 목적지 기반의 One-Stop 대중교통 안내 기능, 대중교통 정보 제공 기능, 경로 예약 기능, 개인화 기능으로 분류할 수 있으며 각 기능의 정의 및 구성 요건들을 제안한다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.6D
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• pp.675-683
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• 2010

Namsan in Seoul is major tourist attraction. However, despite of the proximity of the location to the center of the city, Namsan is not good for visitors for uncomfortable accessibility. This study proposed improvements of guidance system for easily access. Sign system and pedestrian circulation system were analyzed from the nearest public transportation around the park to where the entry of Namsan park. At first, we surveyed installation and type of sign system by field research and pedestrian way accessing to Namsan park by behavior survey. Through the analysis of current guidance system, this study suggests ways to improve following as; the reclassification of functions and types, sign installation planning and extracting main pedestrian circulation for easy access. Improved guidance system can ameliorate accessibility to Namsan and encourage greater use as the representative park of Seoul.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1748-1751
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• 2015

이전 연구에서 우리는 목적지까지 안전하게 보행할 수 있도록 하는 시각장애인용 보행안내 시스템을 개발하였다. 보행안내 시스템은 실내외 POI(Point of Interest)와 특정 위치마다 표식을 설치하고 보행 경로 탐색 알고리즘을 개발하여 사용자의 보행 위치를 추정할 수 있다. 실제 테스트베드에서는 시각장애인을 대상으로 실험을 수행하므로 실험 대상자가 위험 상황에 노출될 수 있기 때문에 모니터링이 필요하고 대용량의 실내외 지도 데이터를 저장하고 관리하는 것도 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 실험 대상자를 원격으로 모니터링 하고 대용량의 지도 데이터를 효과적으로 처리하는 제어 관리용 애플리케이션을 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.522-525
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a walking aid system that guides route to visually impaired people in order to recognize uncertain obstacles based on tactile stimulation. The proposed system is composed of the touch-based obstacle detection module, the obstacle height detection module, and the route guidance algorithms. The touch-based obstacle detection module detects each obstacle, which is located at left, right, and front of a visually impaired person by stimulating his thumb with the rotational force of the servomotor. The obstacle height detection module integrates detected data by the linear arrangement of ultrasonic sensors to identify the height of an obstacle about 3 of-phase(i.e., high, medium, low). The proposed route guidance algorithm guides an optimized path to the visually impaired person by updating his current position information based on the signal of the built-in GPS receiver in smartphone. In addition, the route guidance algorithm delivers information with speech to a visually impaired person through Bluetooth commuination in the developed route guidance app. The proposed system can create a path to avoid the obstacles by recognizing the placed situation of the obstacles with exploring the uncertain path.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.119-133
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• 2022

Due to the improvement of surveying, mapping and communication techniques, various apps for road direction guides and vehicle navigations have been developed. Although such a development has impacted on walking and driving, there is a limit to improving the daily convenience of the socially impaired people. This is mainly due to the fact that the software have been developed for normal pedestrians and drivers. Therefore, visually impaired people still have problems with the confusion of direction and/or non-provision of risk factors in walking. This study aimed to propose a scheme which constructs data for mobility-impaired or traffic-impaired people based on various geospatial information. The factors and components related to walking for the visually impaired are selected by geospatial data and a walking route guidance network that can be applied to a commercial software. As a result, it was confirmed that road direction guidance would be possible if additional contents, such as braille blocks (dotted/linear), sound signals, bus stops, and bollards are secured. In addition, an initial version of the application software was implemented based on the suggested data model and its usefulness was evaluated to a visually impaired person. To advance the stability of the service in walking for the visually impaired people, various geospatial data obtained by multiple institutes are necessary to be combined, and various sensors and voice technologies are required to be connected and utilized through ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) technology in near future.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.93-102
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• 2011

This paper presents a walking guidance system for blind pedestrians in an outdoor environment using just one single camera. Unlike many existing travel-aid systems that rely on stereo-vision, the proposed system aims to get necessary information of the road environment by using just single camera fixed at the belly of the user. To achieve this goal, a top-view image of the road is used, on which obstacles are detected by first extracting local extreme points and then verified by the polar edge histogram. Meanwhile, user motion is estimated by using optical flow in an area close to the user. Based on these information extracted from image domain, an audio message generation scheme is proposed to deliver guidance instructions via synthetic voice to the blind user. Experiments with several sidewalk video-clips show that the proposed walking guidance system is able to provide useful guidance instructions under certain sidewalk environments.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.396-404
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• 2011

Recently, the wide spread popularity of smart phones causes the advent of various mobile applications base on the location information. Since previous pedestrian navigations are applied by extending car navigations, these are not only difficult to provide the appropriate route information, but also raise limitations in the efficient query processing by data structures of car road networks. In addition, these increase the power consumption caused by the growth of I/O frequency. In this paper, we propose a pedestrian road network model for the accurate route information and a storage structure for the pedestrian road network based on POI to reduce the I/O frequency. The proposed method enables efficient route searches over POI reflecting the characteristics and requirements of pedestrian roads. Also, a reduction of query processing costs for the route searching by a data structure considered with POI can save the power consumption more than previous approaches.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.246-250
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• 2006

The objective of this research was to investigate the way information is used by pedestrians in underground space. Furthermore, we wanted to know how pedestrians utilize information from signage of signs by pedestrians. Thus, we conducted an investigation on the pedestrians' walking behavior in Fukuoka City, Tenjin underground shopping centers, and 1) checked routes taken by the subjects; and 2) categorized the signs that were observed, the pedestrians' movement patterns, the way information from signage isused by the pedestrians, the signs' locations, the relationship between the spaces, the heights of the signs and the types of signs offering directions. The results showed that there is a need to solve certain problems related to the locations of the signs and the walking behaviors of the subjects. To solve the problems exhibited by the subjects' walking behaviors, we came up with a variety of guidance information that could be used. The contents of the guidance information differ depending on the specified heights for the placement of signs and the information used depending on the location. The results also showed that the continuity between places needs to be shown more effectively by the guidance system, and that too many signs are positioned in places where the frequency of use is low.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.383-386
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• 2009

대부분의 시각 장애인은 보행을 위해 흰 지팡이 및 안내견의 도움을 받는다. 일반적으로 사용되는 흰 지팡이는 주변 정보의 수집에 한계가 있으며 안내견은 고도의 훈련비용에 따른 비용의 문제점이 있어 그 수가 매우 제한적이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 시각 장애인의 보행을 위한 시스템을 제한하고자 한다. 제안하는 시스템은 다음과 같다. 먼저 카메라를 이용하여 보행에 필요한 점자유도블럭을 검출한 후 검출된 점자유도블럭의 상태를 HRTF를 이용한 입체음향으로 소리를 전달하여 시각장애인이 안전한 보행을 할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.564-566
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• 2015

Red traffic light indicates a different meaning, the green one. Motorists and pedestrians in the crosswalk must stop or move in accordance with a signal light. However, the probability of an accident is high if you do not see or ignore these signals. In addition to the curved pedestrian crossing installed the announcement system using an infrared sensor is difficult. In this paper, we design and implement methods of detecting pedestrians using the camera. A camera installed on the pontoon walking up the pedestrian and the pedestrian detection range is set through the image. With the proposed system it is effective in detecting pedestrians in the crosswalk curved.