• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.894-903
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• 2006

Rapid technology growth of hardware have brought about development and expansion of various digital motion pictured information including 3-Dimension. 3D digital techniques can be used to be diversity in Animation, Virtual-Reality, Movie, Advertisement, Game and so on. 3D characters in digital motion picture take charge of the core as to communicate emotions and information to users through sounds, facial expression and characteristic motions. Concerns about 3D motion and facial expression is getting higher with extension of frequency in use and range about 3D character design. In this study, the facial expression can be used as a effective method about implicit emotions will be studied and research 3D character's facial expressions and muscles movement which are based on human anatomy and then try to find effective method of facial expression. Finally, also, study the difference and distinguishing between 2D and 3D character through the preceding study what I have researched before.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.506-515
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a Real-time Interactive Shadow Avatar(RISA) which can express facial emotions changing as response of user's gestures. The avatar's shape is a virtual Shadow constructed from the real-time sampled picture of user's shape. Several predefined facial animations overlap on the face area of the virtual Shadow, according to the types of hand gestures. We use the background subtraction method to separate the virtual Shadow, and a simplified region-based tracking method is adopted for tracking hand positions and detecting hand gestures. In order to express smooth change of emotions, we use a refined morphing method which uses many more frames in contrast with traditional dynamic emoticons. RISA can be directly applied to the area of interface media arts and we expect the detecting scheme of RISA would be utilized as an alternative media interface for DMB and camera phones which need simple input devices, in the near future.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.111-114
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• 2005

Squash & Stretch principle is playing an essential principle for animation action. The application of this principle gives the illusion of weight and volume to an animation character, and makes it possible that an animation action be the smooth and soft by escaping from the stiffness and rigidity. If an action of human or object on animation is expressed like a real world, it seems to be unnatural. Any action without Squash & Stretch will look rigid, uninteresting and not alive. It can be applied to movement of all objects, characters' actions, dialogues and facial expressions with a basic rule of mass, volume and gravity. Any action will not be well expressed without this principle. To be a good animation action, it should be deeply applied in 3D animation, not only 2D animation. Thus, a systemic analysis of Squash & Stretch principle is required.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.61-70
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• 2014

Verbal communication has limits in the interaction between robot and man, and therefore nonverbal communication is required for realizing smoother and more efficient communication and even the emotional expression of the robot. This study derived 7 pieces of nonverbal information based on shopping behavior using the robot designed to support shopping, selected facial expression as the element of the nonverbal information derived, and coded face components through 2D analysis. Also, this study analyzed the significance of the expression of nonverbal information using 3D animation that combines the codes of face components. The analysis showed that the proposed expression method for nonverbal information manifested high level of significance, suggesting the potential of this study as the base line data for the research on nonverbal information. However, the case of 'embarrassment' showed limits in applying the coded face components to shape and requires more systematic studies.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.46-51
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• 2002

In this paper, I proposed a eyebrow detection algorithm in human face, that is important element in facial recognition. The proposed algorithm consists of four processes: face region detection using color region segmentation. eye detection by template matching, eyebrow candidate region detection in detected eye region, and eyebrow detection by thresholding using the modified histogram that gets luminance value in the candidate region. The test results show that the proposed algorithm can detect eyebrow region very effectively in facial image.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.200-204
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• 2006

They use emoticons as assistance to express their emotion on CMC communications. Emoticons have been developed into diverse forms like text emoticon, image emoticon, animation emoticon. However emoticons represent the emotion only in simple way, not in specific because the shortage of grouping expressions of the emotion. So, the emoticons used nowadays should be grouped specifically in order to help produce the modulated animation emoticons those are able to represent the feeling in specific and diverse way and be used conveniently. Therefore, this thesis is going to propose the design method of a new kind of animation emoticons those can make what animation emoticons used nowadays are not able to through the grouping and analyzing expression images according to faces, gesture(hand), and backgrounds(decoration) focused on the animation emoticons in messenger programs.

• Archives of design research
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.87-94
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• 2004

3D character animation uses the various entertainment factors such as movie, advertisement, game and cyber idol and occupies an important position in video industry. Although character animation makes various productions and real expressions possible, it is difficult to make character like human body without anatomical understanding of human body. Human body anatomy is the basic knowledge which analyzes physical structure anatomically, gives a lot of helps to make character modeling and make physical movement and facial expression delicately when character animation is produced. Therefore this study examines structure and proportion of human body and focuses on character modeling and animation production based on anatomical understanding of human body.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.715-718
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• 2000

다중 사용자 분산 가상환경 시스템에서는 참여자들 사이의 의사 교환을 위해 텍스트 중심의 채팅과 TTS 등을 지원하고 언어 외적인 의사교환을 지원하기 위해 참여자의 대리자인 아바타에 몸짓이나 얼굴 표정 및 감정등을 표현할 수 있도록 애니메이션 기능을 추가하여 사용한다. 하지만 아바타 애니메이션으로 참여자의 의사 및 감정 표현을 표현하는 데는 한계가 있기 때문에 자유로운 만남 및 대화를 지원할 수 있는 환경이 필요하다. 따라서 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 참여자의 얼굴과 음성을 가상 공간상에 포함시킴으로써 보다 분명하고 사실적인 의사교환과 감정표현이 가능할 것이다. 이 논문에서는 컴퓨터 네트워크를 통해 형성되는 다중 사용자 가상 환경에서 참여자들의 의사 교환 및 감정 표현을 극대화하고 자유로운 만남과 대화를 제공하는 실시간 화상 대화가 가능한 분산 가상 환경 시스템을 설계하였다. 설계한 시스템은 참여자들의 거리와 주시 방향에 따라 이벤트의 양을 동적으로 제어함으로써 시스템의 부하를 최적화할 수 있는 구조를 갖고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.571-573
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• 2000

기존 분산 가상환경 시스템에서는 참여자들 사이의 언어 외적인 의사교환을 지원하기 위해 참여자의 아바타에 몸짓이나 얼굴 표정 등을 표현할 수 있도록 애니메이션 가능한 아바타를 사용한다. 하지만 아바타 애니메이션으로 참여자의 의사 및 감정 표현을 표현하는데는 한계가 있다. 따라서, 이 논문에서는 가상 환경 내의 다중 사용자들의 의사 교환 및 감정 표현을 극대화할 수 있는 방법으로 실시간 화상 대화 가상 환경 학습.훈련 시스템을 설계하였다. 설계한 시스템은 학습 참여자의 화상 및 음성 스트림을 전달함으로써 기존 응용들에 비해 풍부한 의사 교환을 지원하고, 가상 공간에서 학습에 필요한 다양한 모듈들을 포함하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.761-763
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• 2022

코로나19 이후 화상회의 빈도가 높아지면서 줌 피로라는 신조어가 등장할 만큼 상대방을 가까이 마주하며 회의를 진행하는 것이 사람들의 피로도를 상승시키고 있다. 본 논문에서는 얼굴 합성과 이미지 애니메이션을 이용한 아바타를 통해 사용자가 화상회의에 참가할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다. 사용자와 닮은 개성 있는 캐릭터는 실시간으로 사용자의 표정 및 움직임을 반영하여 화상회의에 적용될 수 있고 채팅과 커뮤니티에서 캐릭터의 이모티콘으로 감정을 표현할 수 있다.