• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.49-64
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• 2008

Recently, many researches about making more comfortable input device based on gaze detection technology have been done in human computer interface. However, the system cost becomes high due to the complicated hardware and there is difficulty to use the gaze detection system due to the complicated user calibration procedure. In this paper, we propose a new gaze detection method based on the 2D analysis and a simple user calibration. Our method used a small USB (Universal Serial Bus) camera attached on a HMD (Head-Mounted Display), hot-mirror and IR (Infra-Red) light illuminator. Because the HMD is moved according to user's facial movement, we can implement the gaze detection system of which performance is not affected by facial movement. In addition, we apply our gaze detection system to 3D first person shooting game. From that, the gaze direction of game character is controlled by our gaze detection method and it can target the enemy character and shoot, which can increase the immersion and interest of game. Experimental results showed that the game and gaze detection system could be operated at real-time speed in one desktop computer and we could obtain the gaze detection accuracy of 0.88 degrees. In addition, we could know our gaze detection technology could replace the conventional mouse in the 3D first person shooting game.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.7-12
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• 2013

Presence of music in the modern game is getting bigger and bigger, and storytelling in the area of game play a leading role in many cases. Platform game is one type of action game genre. In its nature, the character and the object in a game are closely coupled, thus they have intermate relation with reactive sound system. In this study, we tried to build a effective and reactive sound system which is suitable for the storytelling of platform game. In addition, we speculated various aspects of game including psychological, musical and social aspects, finally investigating the future aspects of the game music.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.346-357
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• 2008

관상학(Physiognomy)이란 사람의 얼굴을 보고 그의 운명, 성격, 수명 따위를 판단하는 방법을 연구하는 학문을 말한다. 이 논문에서 언급하는 관상학은 동양에서 말하는 관상학, 특히 얼굴의 부분적 특성이나 전체적인 조화를 통해 성격과 운영을 예측하는 학문을 의미한다. 이 연구는 동양 관상학을 적용한 성격별 얼굴 설계 시스템 구축에 관한 것으로, 첫째, 보편적인 성격 분류를 위해 MBTI에서 다루는 성격 어휘 161개를 군집분석을 통해 39개의 대표 어휘로 추출하였다. 추출된 대표 성격 어휘의 의미상 거리를 나타내기 위하여 서베이를 통해 얻은 데이터를 다차원 척도법을 통해 2차원 공간상에 성격 어휘의 관계를 분석하였다. 둘째, 얼굴 시각화를 위해 먼저 얼굴의 형태적 특성을 결정짓는 요소를 크게 얼굴형, 눈, 코, 입, 이마, 눈썹으로 분류하고, 분류된 6가지 얼굴 형태의 29가지 하위요소 별 성격을 한국인의 얼굴 특성을 기준으로 관상학적 정리 및 숫자형식 코드화를 하였다. 추출된 대표 성격 어휘별 얼굴 요소의 형태를 앞서 정리된 코드에 따라 하나의 얼굴 형태로 조합하여 39가지 얼굴을 시각화 하여 마지막으로, 성격별 얼굴 설계 시스템 'FACE'를 제작하였다. 이 연구는 사람의 성격 특성에 따라 그에 맞는 얼굴 형태를 구현하는 시스템을 제작하여 일반 사용자 뿐 아니라 애니메이션 캐릭터 개발자에게 객관적인 도움을 줄 수 있으며 또한 예로부터 내려오는 관상학의 적용 범위를 넓힐 수 있는 가능성을 보여주었다고 할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.301-304
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• 2007

Role-Playing Game (RPG)에서는 플레이어가 조종하는 캐릭터 외에도 컴퓨터가 조종하는 Non-Player Character(NPC)가 등장한다. 플레이어는 NPC와 이러한 상호 작용들을 통해 점점 게임의 세계관을 이해하면서 게임에 몰입할 수 있게 된다. 이를 위해서 일반적으로 시나리오나 세계관에 따라 필요한 NPC를 생성, 배치하고 적당한 대사와 퀘스트를 부여한다. 그러나 이러한 구조에서는 NPC는 항상 정해진 정적인 대사만을 할 수 있다. 그 결과, 플레이어들은 NPC와 플레이 시간이 길어질수록 반복되는 대사에 흥미를 잃고 점점 대사를 읽지 않고 진행에 필요한 부분만을 얻어내려 하게 된다. 또한 이러한 구조는 게임 콘텐츠를 추가하고자 할 때, 새로 생성하는 NPC의 대사를 전부 새로 작성해야 하는 단점도 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 동적인 게임 환경 구축을 위한 방법으로 온톨로지 기반의 대화 생성 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 플레이어가 NPC와 대화하고 싶은 내용과 관련된 키워드를 제시하면 온톨로지를 이용하여 제시한 키워드와 관련이 있고, 현재 상황과 조건이 맞는 대화나 퀘스트를 제공한다. 그 결과, 유저와의 상호 작용이 중요해지므로 플레이어의 게임 몰입도를 더욱 높일 수 있다. 또한 시스템 구축 과정에서 생성되는 온톨로지를 이용하여 다른 다양한 기능들을 추론할 수 있는 장점이 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.889-891
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• 2018

가상현실 (Virtual Reality, VR) 컨텐츠가 다양해지면서 사용자들의 관심도 높아지고 있다. 초기 VR 컨텐츠는 헤드 마운티드 디스플레이 (Head Mounted Display, HMD)와 컨트롤러만 사용한다. 사용자의 요구가 높아지면서 현실적인 컨텐츠 구현을 위해서 사용자의 신체 움직임으로 제어하는 풀 바디 트래킹(Full Body Tracking) 기술이 도입되고 있다. 머리에 착용하는 HMD와 양손으로 제어하는 두 개의 컨트롤러 뿐만 아니라 모션캡쳐장비, 트래커 장비를 사용자의 다양한 위치에 착용시켜, 세밀한 움직임 트래킹이 가능해졌다. 본 연구에서 서브 모션 기반의 움직임 추적 방법과 이를 기반한 서브모션 시스템을 제안한다. 서브모션 시스템은 VR 컨텐츠에 사용되는 사용하는 센서 위치를 VR캐릭터의 대응되는 위치에 출력하는 방식이 아닌, 사용자의 움직임에 따라 다양한 센서 위치 변화를 인식하고, 이를 기반으로 VR에서 사전에 지정된 모션을 인식 및 출력한다. 사용자의 움직임을 세분화하여 각각의 연속된 서브모션들로 인식하고, 각각의 서브 모션에서 연속적으로 인식 가능한 서브 모션을 분기를 통해 정의하고 인식함으로써 다양하고 자유도 높은 모션 처리가 가능하다. 선행 기술들의 문제점인 고정된 데미지 방식 및 부자연스러운 모션을 해결하고 사용자에게 실제와 같은 동작을 취하도록 유도하여 몰입감등을 부여할 수 있다. 서브 모션들을 자동적으로 생성하는 시스템을 통해 풀 바디 트래킹 VR 컨텐츠에 적용 가능한 엔진을 연구 및 개발하여 해당 산업의 발전에 이바지하고자 한다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.139-150
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• 2009

This paper attempts to investigate the establishment of an interactive knowledge base for action planning by virtual agents and an interactive knowledge-based planning system. A fixed knowledge base is unable to properly handle a change in circumstances because fixed planning is only available under a fixed knowledge base. Therefore, this paper proposes the establishment of an interactive knowledge base which is applicable to diverse environments and an artificial intelligence planning system in which an interactive knowledge base is available. The interactive knowledge base proposed in this paper consists of motivation, behavior, object and action. The association relationship between knowledge base and its input is set using an automation tool. With this tool, a user can easily add to or amend the components of the knowledge base. With this knowledge base, a character plans all action items and chooses one of them to take an action. Since a new action can be applicable by updating the knowledge base even when the character environment changes, it is very useful for virtual reality content developers. This paper has established a relationship between scalable interactive knowledge base components and other components and proposes a convenient input tool and a planning system algorithm effective for an interactive knowledge base. The results of this study have been verified through testing in a virtual environment ('virtual library').

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.435-443
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the design identity visual elements of optical shop brand$\underline{s}$ in order to provide objective data necessary for optical shop brands' design development. Methods: This study examined the design identity concept of the optical shop brands and analyzed visual elements of brand design identity with a focus on the symbols of domestic franchise optical shops, type of a symbol mark, representation style of logo type, color usage, use or non-use of character, etc. Results: Many symbols were directly associated with the eyeglasses, such as eyeglasses and eyes, face and iris. Along with that, letters or figures were also observed. For the type of symbol, most types were found to have the designs that took spherical and word mark shapes. Particularly, the word mark type had English words more often than Korean words. For logo types, the gothic format was dominant. In relation to the thickness of letter, thick boldface type was commonly used. The combination of 2 degrees was the color frequency used most often in the optical shop brand design. For the frequency of color usage, black and red colors were used most often. Particularly, the orange color, as well as the black color, was also often used for the main color of symbols or logo types. Meanwhile, the characters were used only in some optical shop. Most characters were animals and expressed in the cartoon and graphical forms. Conclusions: Typifier, symbol mark, logo type, color, and character are the elements forming the basic development system for brand design identity. Systematic design is needed which clearly ensures the function and role along with the mutual consistency as a important visual component of the optical shop brand.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.153-167
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• 2005

In this paper, we consider the problem of exploring unknown environments with a mobile robot or an autonomous character agent. Traditionally, research efforts to address the space exploration problem havefocused on the graph-based space representations and the graph search algorithms. Recently EXPLORE, one of the most efficient search algorithms, has been discovered. It traverses at most min$min(mn, d^2+m)$ edges where d is the deficiency of a edges and n is the number of edges and n is the number of vertices. In this paper, we propose DFS-RTA* and DFS-PHA*, two real-time graph search algorithms for directing an autonomous agent to explore in an unknown space. These algorithms are all built upon the simple depth-first search (DFS) like EXPLORE. However, they adopt different real-time shortest path-finding methods for fast backtracking to the latest node, RTA* and PHA*, respectively. Through some experiments using Unreal Tournament, a 3D online game environment, and KGBot, an intelligent character agent, we analyze completeness and efficiency of two algorithms.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.8
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• pp.407-415
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• 2008

This paper presents novel segmentation and transition techniques for dancing motion synthesis. The segmentation method for dancing motions is based on Laban Movement Analysis (LMA). We assume a dance sequence as a set of small dancing motions. To segment a dancing motion is a subjective, psychological, and complex problem, so we extract the shape factor of LMA from a dance motion and observe shape's changes to find the boundaries of dance segments. We also introduce a transition method that meets constraints on the feet. This method that is based on a linear interpolation modifies the intermediate posture motion after analyzing footprint positions. The posture could be a key-frame between source motion and target motion on the transition. With the proposed techniques, it would be easy for multimedia applications to generate plausible dance motions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.162-170
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• 2011

Through this thesis, I intended to analyze Hollywood animation through that achieved in box office by directing viewpoint. of Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois not only shows standard narrative structure of adventure, comedy, fantasy, but also express message of story and thorough visual. Analysis of directing classify contents and form. In contents, constitution of narrative and set up of character, irony of plot, characterization and popularity are embossed. In form, lighting and special effect, design and layout, 3D technology and stereoscopic camera technique based on the capital strength are outstanding. The high evaluation for film is possessed of box offic, remained within value and popularity, and delivered metaphysical theme without repulsion. The director's direction make success even if the pre-production manage by huge system approach.