• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.21-27
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• 2013

Recently, the use of floating hologram has increased in many different aspects, such as exhibitions, education, advertisements, and so on. Especially, the floating hologram that makes use of half-mirror is widely used. Nevertheless, half-mirror, unfortunately, cannot lead users to the perfect three dimensional hologram experience. Even though it can make the vision look to be up on the air, it does not have the capacity to display itself up on the air, which is the ultimate goal of hologram. In addition, it looks inconsistent when a real object is located behind the half-mirror in order to show the convergence of the two (object and the half-mirror). In this paper, we did the study on comparison of 3D space perception for the stereoscopic AR holography. At first, we applied stereoscopic technology to the half-mirror hologram system for the accurate and realistic AR environment. Then, the users can feel as if the real 3D object behind half-mirror and the reflected virtual image are converged much better in the 3D space. Furthermore, by using depth camera, the location and direction of graphics can be controlled to change depending on the user's point of view. This is the effective way to produce augmented stereoscopic images simply and accurately through half-mirror film without any additional devices. What we saw from the user test were applying 3D images and user interaction leads the users to have 3D spatial awareness and realism more effectively and accurately.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.93-100
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• 2020

In this paper, we implemented a smart mirror that helps users to measure the results before the procedure by reflecting various hairstyles on the head. When the camera is used to capture a face in real time and recognize the face, the stored hair image is uploaded to provide a virtual image. In addition, the high production cost, which is a problem of the existing smart mirrors, was reduced by using Raspberry Pi, Open CV, and half mirror film, and various functions were implemented through touch control. It is also designed to provide information such as weather, calendar and time.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1121-1128
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• 2022

Information about the present invention is made available for business use. You are helping to use the LCD, you can't use the LCD screen. During software configuration, Raspbian was used to provide the system environment. We made our way through the menu and made our financial through play. It provides various information such as weather, weather, apps, streamer music, and web browser search function, and it can be charged. Currently, the 'Google Assistant' will be provided through the GUI within a predetermined time.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.199-204
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• 2019

This paper introduces smart mirror that provides the contents needed for an individual's daily life. When a command that is designated as voice recognition is entered, Smart Mirror is produced that outputs desired contents from a display. The contents of the current smart mirror include time, weather, subway information, schedule and photography. Smart mirror sold for commercial private households is difficult to distribute due to high prices, but the smart mirror production presented in this paper can lower the manufacturing cost and can be more easily used by voice recognition.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1271-1278
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• 2021

In this paper, we implemented smart mirrors that virtually select and experience eyeglasses and hair styles on user faces through face recognition and recommend weather-specific clothes to guide various styles. In addition, makeup is possible while watching the video while looking at the screen. Raspberry Pi, acrylic plate and half mirror film were used to reduce the cost of conventional smart mirrors. It also added basic information such as weather, dates, calendars, and news, and increased user convenience by using a touchscreen.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1313-1320
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• 2023

This paper presents the development of a smart mirror that allows control of its display through glove gestures and integrates voice recognition functionality. The hardware configuration of the smart mirror consists of an LCD monitor combined with an acrylic panel, onto which a semi-mirror film with a reflectance of 37% and transmittance of 36% is attached, enabling it to function as both a mirror and a display. The proposed smart mirror eliminates the need for users to physically touch the mirror or operate a keyboard, as it implements gesture control through glove gesture sensors. Additionally, it incorporates voice recognition capabilities and integrates Google Assistant to display results on the screen corresponding to voice commands issued by the user.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.41-46
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• 2016

An optical method to measure the three-dimensional (3D) shape of a surface with specular reflection is proposed. The proposed method is based on the analysis of the geometric path of the light from a point source, and the relative displacements of points in the reflection image. The 3D shape of a concave mirror is shown to be determined approximately via experiments, where the vision system consists of LED array illumination, a half-mirror, and an imaging sensor.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.1020-1026
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• 2005

In the era of ubiquitous computing, human-friendly man-machine interface is getting more attention due to its possibility to offer convenient services. For this, in this paper, we introduce a 'Half-Mirror Interface System (HMIS)' as a novel type of human-friendly man-machine interfaces. Basically, HMIS consists of half-mirror, USB-Webcam, microphone, 2ch-speaker, and high-speed processing unit. In our HMIS, two principal operation modes are selected by the existence of the user in front of it. The first one, 'mirror-mode', is activated when the user's face is detected via USB-Webcam. In this mode, HMIS provides three basic functions such as 1) make-up assistance by magnifying an interested facial component and TTS (Text-To-Speech) guide for appropriate make-up, 2) Daily weather information provider via WWW service, 3) Health monitoring/diagnosis service using Chinese medicine knowledge. The second one, 'display-mode' is designed to show decorative pictures, family photos, art paintings and so on. This mode is activated when the user's face is not detected for a time being. In display-mode, we also added a 'healing-window' function and 'healing-music player' function for user's psychological comfort and/or relaxation. All these functions are accessible by commercially available voice synthesis/recognition package.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.5-13
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• 2017

Interactive intervention of the human presenter is one of the important factors that make the visualization more effective. Rather than just showing the content, the presenter enhances the process of the information delivery by providing the context of visualization. In this paper, we define this as an augmented presentation. In augmented presentation concept, the presenter can facilitate presentation more actively by being fully immersed in the visualization space and reaching and interacting into digital information. In order to concrete the concept, we design presentation space that enables the presenter to be seamlessly immersed in the visualization. Also we increase the presenter's roles as a storyteller, controller and augmenter allowing the presenter to fully support communicative process between the audience and the visualization. Then, we present an augmented presentation system to verify the proposed concept. We rendered 3D visualization through a half-mirror film and a wall projection screen that are place in parallel and applied with stereoscopic images, then, spatially align the presenter inside the virtual visualization space. After that, we conduct a controlled experiment to investigate the subjective level of immersion and engagement of the audience to HoloStation compared to traditional presentation system. Our initial investigation suggests that the newly conceived augmented presentation has potential not only to enhance the information presentation but also to supports the delivery of visualization.