• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.585-588
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• 1998

현재의 언어자동인식은 목소리의 음성 정보와 얼굴영상의 화상정보를 병행처리하여 초기의 음성 정보만을 처리한 경우보다 높은 인식률을 가져왔다. 이러한 연구는 언어의 인식에서 뿐만 아니라, 신체가 부자연스러운 장애니에게는 간단한 의미 전달의 수단이나 각종 재활보조기기의 제어 등에도 매우 유용하게 활용될 수 있다. 음성정보처리를 배제한 영상정보처리 면에서, 본 논문의 대상이 되는 장애인은 신체의 부자연스러움으로 인해 처리되는 얼굴의 영상이 정상인과 같은 바른 자세가 되지 못하고, 기울어진다든지 틀어져서 기존의 방법들로는 정상인보다 현저히 낮은 입모양의 인식률을 보인다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 방법들과는 달리 청색 표식을 이용한 색상불할법과 라벨링을 통해 입 모양을 인식하는 방법을 제안하였으며, 이는 장애인과 같은 기울어진 얼굴영상에 대해서도 정상인과 같은 입 모양 인식률을 나타내었다.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.99-105
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to compare AAC service delivery system between Korea and U.S.A for appling effective 'AAC service delivery system. This delivery system complement the missing part in system of the current method and narrow blind area for system. The result of this research, increase suppling item of assistive communication device in public benefit and provide delivery system through construct infrastructure by assistive technology center, special education support center, developmental disorder support center, speech therapy center in each local area. Furthermore, assistive technology-related institute and academy develope training programs for human resources to delivery AAC service.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 2010

Research and development of Assistive Technology (AT) for blind people is primarily focused on assisting mobility and improving access to information. Some particularly useful devices for aiding access to information and communication are DAISY players used with talking books, screen readers for reading screens, video magnifiers to aid low vision, Braille displays, and Braille PDAs. These essential devices have been successfully commercialized and have assisted many visually impaired people. Assistive technology devices for visually impaired people are called sensory substitution devices, because these devices substitute tactile or auditory functions for visual functions. The tactile interfaces of sensory substitution devices such as Braille displays and Braille PDAs have a bimorph type of piezoelectric actuator that forms a Braille (pin) of the Braille cells by moving up and down. KGS Corporation of Japan has more than 80% share of the worldwide market for these Braille cell actuators. Commercializing it for the first time in the world. This paper reviews the various endeavors in Japan in the research and development of tactile displays, such as Braille displays and Braille PDAs. Furthermore, it discusses sensory substitution devices that use tactile displays, focusing especially on the rotating Braille display we have developed.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.123-148
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to provide practical support methods of the library education and cultural programs for people with physical disabilities through the qualitative investigation. To collect data, focus group and individual interviews were conducted. Fourteen people with physical disabilities and six parents were interviewed. From the qualitative analysis, three themes and thirteen subthemes were emerged: (1) cognition about library, (2) difficulties of using the library, (3) support methods for activating library use. Finally, discussions, implications and future directions of library education and cultural programs for people with physical disabilities were presented based on the results of the study. We expect that this research can serve as a basis for further effort to develop library education and cultural programs suited for the unique needs of people with physical disabilities.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.1740-1746
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• 2013

Augmentative and alternative communication(AAC) is a communication tool for those with impairments or restrictions on the production or comprehension of spoken language. Traditional AAC has used a portable board with pictures and texts with which disabled person could be supported by it. Currently, smart phone based AAC researches and developments are actively studying. With emerging concepts of context-aware computing, the mobile devices can provide mobile users with timely information and location based services. We proposed a adjustable AAC system for disabled people of which has variable layouts and selectable items. We also implemented context-ware application for AAC systems including time, location and click count informations on smart phone. The system can adaptively change its layout and select AAC items depending on various situation of disabled persons.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.1214-1216
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• 2017

사물인터넷 관련 기술들의 다양한 연구개발은 정치 경제 문화 등 사회 각 분야의 진화를 촉진시키는 기반이 되고 있으며, 이러한 현상은 장애인을 포함한 사회적 약자를 위한 각종 제도 및 기기들의 다양한 개발 및 활용을 촉진시키는 기화로도 작용하고 있다. 그러나 아직까지 장애인을 위한 사물인터넷 기반 장비의 개발은 더디게 이루어지고 있는 것이 사실이다. 특히, 청각장애인의 경우 위험을 회피할 수 있는 소리를 사전에 인지할 수 있을 경우, 다른 장애인 대비 매우 높은 확률로 위험을 회피할 수 있음에도 불구하고 아직까지 이에 대한 연구개발이 매우 부족하다. 때문에 본 논문에서는 청각장애인들이 주변의 소리를 사전에 인지/확인할 수 있도록 하여, 발생할 수 있는 위험을 미연에 방지할 수 있는 디바이스의 개발을 제안한다. 제안하는 디바이스는 특정 크기 이상의 소리를 인지할 수 있는 소리 측정센서를 통해 해당 소리를 청각장애인이 인지할 수 있도록 알림을 제공하는 디바이스이며, 아두이노를 기반으로 하고 있기 때문에 기존의 다양한 청각보조기구 대비 매우 저렴하게 개발이 가능하다. 이를 통해, 청각장애인은 소리의 미인지로 발생할 수 있는 사고의 위험을 회피할 수 있으며, 안전한 보행권 및 이동권을 확보할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.474-477
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• 2012

현대사회는 시각장애인에 대한 복지가 부족하다. 예를 들어 유도블럭의 홰손, 지폐의 점자처리의 모호함 등 시각장애인을 위해 만들어진 복지조차 사용하기 어려운게 현실이다. 그래서 우리는 무선카메라와 Window Phone을 이용하여 상기 불편함을 해소하기 위하여 이 프로젝트를 시작하였다. Guide Line Detection은 앞을 못 보는 시각장애인에게 무선카메라에 보이는 영상에서 유도블럭을 찾아 시각장애인과의 거리를 음성으로 알려준다. Bill Recognition은 지폐를 인식하여 음성으로 알려준다. 길 안내 기능은 길을 찾아가지 못하는 시각장애인에게 특정 지점마다 길 안내정보를 등록하고, 등록된 정보는 시각장애인이 실시간으로 길 안내를 받을 수 있다. 음성인식은 기기를 사용하기 힘든 시각장애인들에 대한 접근성을 높이기 위해 WinPhone Application이 제공하는 모든 기능을 흔들기와 음성만으로 사용할 수 있도록 제공한다. 무선카메라의 화질과 Window Phone의 GPS 불규칙적인 오차 때문에 많은 시행착오가 있었지만 무선카메라는 웹 캠으로, GPS오차는 BingMap API의 GPS 가상 좌표로 대체하여 프로젝트를 마칠 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.99-106
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• 2012

In recent years, many researchers studies to promote the welfare of disabled people using IT technology. In particular, their suggestions are used a lot of mobile sensor installed on the street. These systems are acquired and to store the data sent to the server over the network, and by analyzing the users life log to judge of their risk state. In particular, persons with disabilities are exposed to various risks. So, they must need to the guardians if he go out. Thus, this study is a method for alleviating these so much pressure to smart appliances and impaired life log analysis system.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.166-172
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• 2022

In this study, we photograph driving obstacle objects such as crosswalks, side spheres, manholes, braille blocks, partial ramps, temporary safety barriers, stairs, and inclined curb that hinder or cause inconvenience to the movement of the vulnerable using electric mobility aids. We develop an optimal AI model that classifies photographed objects and automatically recognizes them, and implement an algorithm that can efficiently determine obstacles in front of electric mobility aids. In order to enable object detection to be AI learning with high probability, the labeling form is labeled as a polygon form when building a dataset. It was developed using a Mask R-CNN model in Detectron2 framework that can detect objects labeled in the form of polygons. Image acquisition was conducted by dividing it into two groups: the general public and the transportation weak, and image information obtained in two areas of the test bed was secured. As for the parameter setting of the Mask R-CNN learning result, it was confirmed that the model learned with IMAGES_PER_BATCH: 2, BASE_LEARNING_RATE 0.001, MAX_ITERATION: 10,000 showed the highest performance at 68.532, so that the user can quickly and accurately recognize driving risks and obstacles.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.113-122
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• 1995

This paper describes characteristics of a bone conduction telephone which was developed for conductive hearing impaired persons to call without additional devices and results of its performance test. Not only the hearing impaired but also normal hearing persons can use this telephone because we developed a bone conduction vibrator with which they can perceive speech signal using functions of air conductive hearing as well as bone conductive hearing. It also has tone control function compensating hearing losses for the hearing impaired originating from their hearing characteristics, and using this function together with received volume control it has received volume range of 20dB in loudness rating, which is similar effect as what a telephone set with built-in received amplifier has. From results of articulation and intelligibility tests for 19 hearing impaired persons, we can see that if their bone-conduction hearing loss is 61dB or less, they can understand words or sentences and response well with this telephone.