• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.2D
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• pp.275-283
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• 2006

Recently, there are increasing needs to provide sufficient information on road signs for expanding cities and traffic networks. Improving efficiency of direction guidance information from road signs not only requires criteria for but also systematic approach to selecting place names that appear on road sings. As such, this paper looks at road direction information from existing road signs that leads to Suwon and investigates whether the current system of road sings provides efficient, systematic and continuous direction information for road users to easily reach their destination. In this paper, Suwon's city hall is set up as the final destination, which is linked from five other cities, Euiwang, Ansan, Hwaseong, Osan and Yongin. The paper attempts to find out whether there is continuity and suitable number of road signs for direction information by analyzing the road signs between these 5 cities and Suwon with respect to direction, direction advance notice and direction guidance. It is found that road users cannot easily find the needed information on their destination from the existing road signs and that continuity of selected place names that systematically appear on road signs is insufficiency. That is to say, the findings of the paper are that while it is easy for road users to find place names that are classified under land marks or the first-class selection of place names on road signs, it is difficult to obtain information from road signs on place names that are grouped under the second or third class. In addition, direction guidance on road signs is problematic, because the appearance frequency of road signs is not adequate and the continuity of road signs is not effective. Moreover, there is insufficient information on local direction guidance for immediate destinations on road signs with respect to turning left or right or going straight. Hence road signs in urban area need systematic improvement to find easily some destination.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.6 no.1 s.20
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• pp.29-38
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• 2006

There are increasing needs to provide sufficient information on road directions through road signs for expanding cities and traffic networks. Improving efficiency of direction guidance information from road signs not only requires criteria for but also systematic approach to selecting place names that appear on road signs. As such, this paper looks at road direction information from existing road signs that leads to Suwon and investigates whether the current system of road signs provides efficient, systematic and continuous direction information for road users to easily reach their destination. In this paper, Suwon's city hall is set up as the final destination, which is linked from five other cities, Anyang, Osan, Ansan, Yongin and Seongnam. The paper attempts to find out whether there is continuity and suitable number of road signs for direction information by analyzing the road signs between these 5 cities and Suwon with respect to direction, direction advance notice and direction guidance. It is found that drivers cannot easily find the needed information on their destination from the existing road signs and that continuity of selected place names that systematically appear on road signs is insufficiency. In addition, direction guidance on road signs is problematic, because the appearance frequency of road signs is not adequate and the continuity of road signs is not effective. Moreover, there is insufficient information on local direction guidance for immediate destinations on road signs with respect to turning left or right or going straight.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.12a
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• pp.195-201
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• 2004

이 논문은 건물 및 상점, 도로표지판 등에 부착된 RFID 태그를 이용하여 위치정보를 획득하는 방법과, 이를 이용하여 위치기반 서비스를 실시할 수 있는 응용 시스템 및 이의 방법을 기술하고 있다. 기존의 GPS를 이용한 위치 정보는 신호를 보내는 인공위성의 지리적 변화에 의하여 정확도가 떨어지거나 전파 인터페이스 문제로 인하여 잘못된 위치정보를 주는 경우가 있다. 그러므로, 이 논문은 RFID 등에 위치정보를 식별할 수 있는 위치정보 식별자를 적용할 것을 제안한다. 이 것은 기존의 GPS 및 무선 네트워크를 사용할 때 발생할 수 있는 상기에 서술된 문제점을 해결하고, 태그를 통해 즉각적인 위치정보의 획득이 가능해 짐으로서 현재 이동통신사에서 제공하고 있는 위치정보 게이트웨이 접근에 대한 비용을 지불하지 않는 장점이 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.151-157
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• 2013

The law for indicating the address based on the street name has taken effect in 1997. The address based on land-lot number will be changed to the address based on the street name giving odd numbers to the buildings situated on the left side and even numbers to the buildings situated on the right side per street. Searching locations by street name addresses is possible for residential areas, on the other hand, the system of finding locations is insufficient for farmlands, mountains and others, so it is unable to cope with crimes and emergency rescue. In order to make up for the weak points of street name address, the national point number, grid reference system was introduced for finding location of non-residential areas. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to help the introduction the national point number. In this paper, we proposed a territory-oriented control point and grid range for the national point number. Numbering scheme of grid zone shall be alphanumeric, a two-letter pair Hangul and the grid coordinates in terms of Easting and Northing. We also proposed the notice area for the national point number and location of signs, application about the public and private sector.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1-9
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• 2014

Recently, a study is conducting to image collection and auto detection of attribute information using mobile mapping system. The road sign attribute information detection is difficult because of various size and placement, interference of other facilities like trees. In this study, a text detection method that does not rely on a Korean character template is required to successfully detect the target text when a variety of differently sized texts are present near the target texts. To overcome this, the method of incremental right-to-left blob projection (IRBP) was suggested as a solution; the potential and improvement of the method was also assessed. To assess the performance improvement of the IRBP that was developed, the IRBP method was compared to the existing method that uses Korean templates through the 60 videos of street signs that were used. It was verified that text detection can be improved with the IRBP method.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.7-19
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• 2007

The purpose of posted speeds is to provide a speed that ensures the safety of vehicle flow according to given road situations. Because of this, posted speeds must be carefully examined, and posted speeds at freeway exits and entrances in particular should consider car characteristics. Posted speeds at freeway exits and entrances must take changing speeds due to curve radiuses into consideration and in this study, an 85th percentile speed becomes the most important element to consider. When it is considered that most traffic accidents occur because of variations in speed between cars, posted speeds should be set after considering car traveling characteristics. Within these dimensions, instead of putting significance on an upper direction regulation or lower direction regulation, speed distributions which fit to the characteristics of each road should be fully considered. Accordingly, this study evaluated appropriate posted speeds that will reduce the dangers of traffic accidents through posted speed regulations of roads now in operation by offering a posted speed setting method theory, using entries at Yangji, Yongin, and Cheongwon interchanges as subjects.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2550-2552
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• 2004

표지판이나 지도, 안내책자 같은 매체들은 사용자에게 여러 정보(위치정보, 부가정보)를 제공한다. 이런 매체를 통한 위치정보와 부가정보는 직관적이고 간결하며 정적으로 표현되어 있다. 그리고 정보제공의 형태를 보면 사용자가 정보를 취득해 가야 하는 점에서 수동적으로 볼 수 있다. 하지만 사용자는 정보 욕구가 증가할수록 정적인 정보보다는 동적인 정보를 요구하고, 수동적인 정보제공 방법보다는 능동적인 정보제공 방법을 선호한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 정보보조시스템(IAS)은 기존의 IAS 시스템과 달리, 직관적이고 간결한 정보 전달의 수단으로 증강현실 기술을 사용하고, 능동적 정보제공의 방법으로 에이전트 시스템을 사용한다. 실제 구현 과정에서 성능 향상을 위한 아이디어를 추가하여, 제안하는 방법들의 효용성을 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.476-478
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• 2020

공항은 다양한 시설들이 혼재되어 있는 복합 공간으로 원하는 장소로 이동하기 위해서는 지도나 표지판뿐만 아니라 유·무인 안내 서비스를 이용하는 것이 필수적이다. 그러나 이러한 시설 안내 서비스는 이용객의 대다수를 차지하는 비장애인을 기준으로 설계되어 있는 것이 대부분이며, 특히 청각장애인은 음성 언어인 한국어를 통한 의사소통이 어려워 이러한 안내 서비스의 사각 지대에 놓여있다고 볼 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 청각장애인을 대상으로 공항 내 시설 위치 안내 서비스를 제공하는 키오스크를 구현하기 위해 마커리스(makerless) 한국 수어 인식 기술을 적용하는 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 알고리즘들이 수어를 인식하기 위해 사용자의 신체에 마커(marker)를 부착하거나 사용에 제약이 있는 깊이, 자기장 센서 등을 활용한 데 반해, 특징점 기반의 인식 기술은 별도의 마커 없이 RGB 영상만을 활용하여 수어를 인식하기 때문에 사용자의 편의성을 극대화할 수 있는 방법이다. 영상 기반의 마커리스 수어 인식 기술을 위치 안내 키오스크에 적용함으로써 청각장애인이 다른 사람의 도움 없이 공항 시설을 쉽고 안전하게 이용할 수 있도록 지원할 수 있으며, 나아가 배리어프리 (barrier-free) 공항을 구현하는 데에 큰 도움이 될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.3 no.2 s.5
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• pp.19-28
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• 2004

This paper shows how to compensate the skew from the traffic sign included in the natural image and extract the text. The research deals with the Process related to the array image. Ail the process comprises four steps. In the first fart we Perform the preprocessing and Canny edge extraction for the edge in the natural image. In the second pan we perform preprocessing and postprocessing for Hough Transform in order to extract the skewed angle. In the third part we remove the noise images and the complex lines, and then extract the candidate region using the features of the text. In the last part after performing the local binarization in the extracted candidate region, we demonstrate the text extraction by using the differences of the features which appeared between the tett and the non-text in order to select the unnecessary non-text. After carrying out an experiment with the natural image of 100 Pieces that includes the traffic sign. The research indicates a 82.54 percent extraction of the text and a 79.69 percent accuracy of the extraction, and this improved more accurate text extraction in comparison with the existing works such as the method using RLS(Run Length Smoothing) or Fourier Transform. Also this research shows a 94.5 percent extraction in respect of the extraction on the skewed angle. That improved a 26 percent, compared with the way used only Hough Transform. The research is applied to giving the information of the location regarding the walking aid system for the blind or the operation of a driverless vehicle

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.67-74
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• 1999

Where an interchange is located just after a tunnel not only it is impossible to install the traffic signs in tunnel sections but also sufficient sight distance to identify the interchange can't be provided. The objective of this study is to suggest the safety based spacing between tunnel and interchange. For this study accident rate was used as an index representing characteristics for vehicle operation to suggest the appropriate spacing. Traffic volume and the number of accidents on freeway from 1992 to 1997 were analyzed. The relationship between accident rate and spacing represents negative logarithm function such that shorter spacing increases accident rate. An appropriate safety based spacing between tunnel and interchange for four lane freeway with the design speed of 100kph was found as 2.6km.