• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.6D
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• pp.663-673
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• 2009

Driver's perceived curve radius is different from actual curve radius at curve sections. This is called visual distortion. It has effect on operation speed according to driver's perception and finally bad effect on safety at curve sections. At present, however, there is no research on quantitatively analysis of visual distortion and no criteria for curve section design considering the visual distortion. Therefore, this study focus on finding degree of visual distortion and suggesting design criteria by visual distortion analysis. The process of this study is as below; First, a calculaiton model of perceived curve radius was developed by survey using computer simulation. In this model, a dependent variable is perceived curve radius and an independent variable is geometric factors. Second, degree of visual distortion was calculated from ratio of perceived curve radius to actual curve radius. Finally, design criteria were suggested through influencing factor analysis of visual distortion at curve sections.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.4 no.9
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• pp.377-384
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• 2015

In this paper we propose a visualization tool for distortion-free time-series matching. Supporting distortion-free is a very important factor in time-series matching to get more accurate matching results. In this paper, we visualize the result of time-series matching, which removes various time-series distortions such as noise, offset translation, amplitude scaling, and linear trend by using moving average, normalization, linear detrending transformations, respectively. The proposed visualization tool works as a client-server model. The client sends a user-selected time-series, of which distortions are removed, to the server and visualizes the matching results. The server efficiently performs the distortion-free time-series matching on the multi-dimensional R*-tree index. By visualizing the matching result as five different charts, we can more easily and more intuitively understand the matching result.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.4D
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• pp.395-402
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• 2010

The seriousness of a traffic accident appears relatively higher on the curve sections compared with the straight sections due to a change in speed caused by a change in the driver's sight. In particular, the visual distortion phenomenon, one of the dangerous factors taking place on the curve sections, appears different according to the road's geometric design. Although it is a genuinely principal design factor which should be necessarily considered in designing a road, the previous researches on establishing the design standards for it have been insufficiently conducted. As a result, the establishment of the road design standards for the curve sections considering the sight distortion phenomenon is desperately required. This research examined the previous researches on the driver's behaviors, the driver's sight characteristics and the perceived curve radius on the curve sections, and developed the theoretical model of perceived curve radius to which a mathematical technique is applied in consideration of the visual distortion phenomenon on the two-lane curve sections in a local area. In addition, after the theoretical visual distortion was calculated on the basis of the theoretical model of perceived curve radius, the range of error on the theoretical recognition radius model formula was verified through comparing it with the previous researches' experiential visual distortion level and analyzing both of them. As a result, it was observed that as the curve radius practically increases in the theoretical recognition curve radius, the range of error tends to go down, which reflects well the characteristics of the curve sections on the road. Based on this research, it is expected that this research will be helpful to eliminate the safety defects when designing the curve sections and contribute to develop the road design standards considering human factors in the future.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.311-314
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• 2013

방사왜곡, 접선왜곡으로 인해 영상의 왜곡이 발생한다. 왜곡 영상은 시각적인 문제 외에도 영상분석을 통해 정확한 수치 계산을 통해 영상을 처리할 때, 문제가 되기 때문에 영상을 보정해 주어야한다. 감시 시스템, 로봇의 시각 역할 등 다양한 비전 시스템에서 카메라가 장착되어 왜곡보정에 대한 사용도가 증가 하고 있다. 그리고 한 광각 카메라에서 획득한 영상은 비선형적인 방사 왜곡을 가지고 있기 때문에 정확한 영상을 획득하기 위해서는 왜곡 보정 작업을 수행하여야 한다. 왜곡된 영상을 올바르게 보정 해줄 캘리브레이션(Calibration)은 영상 좌표계의 한 점이 실세계 좌표계의 어느 위치에 대응하는지를 결정하기 위해 보정 변수들을 결정하는 과정이다. 본 논문에서는 캘리브레이션(Calibration)을 수행할 때 패턴 개수, 이미지 파일 크기, 이미지 파일 개수가 영상 왜곡 보정에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 분석해 보았을 때 다른 어떤 경우보다 패턴 개수를 비교적 작게 했을 때의 경우가 뚜렷한 차이를 보여주었다.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.27-51
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• 2015

The present study tested the effect of a top-down influence on recalling the colors of Stroop words. Participants remembered the colors of 1, 2, 3 or 6 Stroop words. After 1 second of a memory delay, they were asked to recall the color of a cued Stroop word by selecting out its corresponding color on a color-wheel stimulus. The correct recall was defined when the participants chose a color that was within ${\pm}45^{\circ}$ from the exact location of Stroop word's color on the color-wheel. Otherwise, the recall was defined as incorrect. The analyses of the frequency distribution of the participants' responses in the error trials showed that the probability of choosing the color-name of the target Stroop word was higher than the probability of other five color-names on the color-wheel. Further analyses showed that increasing the number of Stroop words to manipulate memory load did not affect the probability of the Stroop interference. These results indicate that the top-down interference by Stroop manipulation may induce systematic distortion of the stored representation in visual working memory.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.1085-1093
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• 2000

An efficient bit rate distribution technique that distributes available bits for multiple objects based on motion vector magnitude, size of object shape, and coding distortion is presented. This coding concept using the three parameters was exploited in MPEG-4 multiple object coding. But the scheme is likely to produce poor results such as allocating more bits to less important objects and degrading picture quality, due to the lack of analysis and research in view of human visual aspect. In this paper importance of each object is represented by the three parameters and visually analyzed. Target bits are distributed according to coding distortion using the pre-assigned shape and motion information.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.829-832
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• 2004

실제영상으로 가상환경을 구축해서 사용자가 가상환경을 돌아다님으로써 보다 큰 몰입감과 현실감을 제공하는 영상기반 가상현실 기술은 최근 들어 웹 기반 가상현실시스템을 구축하기 위해서 많이 사용된다. 이 기술은 가상환경 구축에 있어 항해를 쉽게 하기 위한 한 방법으로 넓은 시각 영역(field of view)을 얻을 수 있는 wide-angle 렌즈를 흔히 사용한다. 어안렌즈(fish-eye lens)는 전형적인 넓은 시각 영역을 가진 렌즈로서, 매우 큰 radial distortion 을 가진다. 왜곡을 없앤 영상을 얻기 위해 본 논문에서는 구면기하(spherical geometry) 및 사영기하(projective geometry)를 사용하여 어안영상을 보정하는 non-metric기법을 제안한다. 제안한 이 방법은, 기존의 방법들 보다는 쉽고 빠른 속도로 왜곡을 보정할 수 있으므로 어안영상의 왜곡을 보정하는 하드웨어를 효율적으로 구현할 수 있다. 그리고 spheroid 를 이용해 좀 더 왜곡을 정확히 보정방법과 별도의 서보 모터 없이 pan/title 를 가능케 하는 시점이동에 따른 왜곡 보정 방법을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.81-88
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new objective quality assessment method considering the human visual perception characteristics. A subjective quality assessment is obtained by the response of the receptive field in the primary visual cortex and a human's eye can't focus on all of the visual range in a moment. Take advantage of two facts above, we apply Gabor wavelet transform which is well fit the receptive field in the cortex, to divided constant sized subblocks. Then a local distortion of the subblocks and a global distortion for the entire image are calculated in order. The proposed method has been evaluated using video test sequences provided by the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG). The experimental results show that good correlation with human perception is obtained using the proposed metric, which is what we called GPSNR.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.381-384
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 경계영역을 잘 보존할 수 있는 움직임 추정기법을 제안하였다. 고정크기 블록으로 움직임 추정시 생길 수 있는 경계영역에서의 왜곡은 인간의 시각에 민감하게 작용할 수 있다. 제안한 움직임 추정기법은 고정크기 블록기반으로서 기본적으로 MAD(Mean Absolute Difference)가 최소가 되도록 하는 동시에 영상의 경계값과 복잡도를 이용하여 경계부분에서 일어나는 시각적인 왜곡을 줄일 수 있도록 하였다. 제안한 움직임 추정기법은 기존의 경계영역 보존 기법에 비해 직관적 성능 및 주관적 차질이 향상됨을 모의 실험결과로부터 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.623-626
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• 2011

자동차를 위한 전방향(omnidirectional) 감시 시스템 같은 감시 시스템, 로봇의 시각 역할 등 다양한 비젼 시스템에서 카메라가 장착되어 사용되고 있다. 광각 카메라에서 획득한 영상은 비선형적인 방사 왜곡을 가지고 있어서 정확한 영상을 획득하기 위해서는 왜곡 보정 작업을 수행하여야 한다. 카메라로부터 입력되는 왜곡 영상을 실시간으로 보정하기 위해서는 많은 연산량을 요구하므로 임베디드 환경에서는 왜곡 보정을 위해 별도의 시스템을 추가하거나 SOC 형태로 개발한 전용 H/W를 추가한다. 본 논문에서는 왜곡 보정 과정에 필요한 연산들을 분석하고, 연산량을 줄일 수 있는 개선된 왜곡 보정 방법을 제안한다. 또한, ARM11 기반 임베디드 환경에서 제안한 왜곡 보정 방법을 직접 구현하여 성능을 평가함으로써 임베디드 환경에서 추가의 시스템이나 추가의 비용없이 왜곡 보정을 수행할 수 있음을 보인다.