• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.205-214
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• 2018

As the paradigm of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is expanding, VR devices and their contents industry are drawing more and more attention as the digital devices of the next generation. Of the realms of VR contents, $360^{\circ}$ 3D videos are receiving the most attention in the field of media, and they are being utilized by Google as educational contents. As such, this research analyzes actual condition of use and motivation of using corresponding contents through survey of $360^{\circ}$ 3D video users. Results show that the most utilized platform is Youtube, and the genres which the respondents have used or are willing to use turned out to be Games and Movies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.171-174
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• 2016

2016년 CES(Consumer Electronic Show)의 가장 큰 이슈는 드론과 VR이었다. 드론을 사용한 다양한 산업 기술의 발전과 VR을 사용한 새로운 시각효과는 사람들에게 많은 관심을 불러일으켰다. 드론과 VR의 영상기술의 발전과 발맞추어 액션 카메라와 360도 카메라의 기술도 발달하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 Drone과 360도 카메라, VR을 사용한 드론뷰 콘텐츠를 설계한다. 드론뷰 콘텐츠란 드론을 사용하여 로드뷰를 촬영하는 것을 의미한다. 드론뷰 콘텐츠를 활용한 시스템은 사용자가 지도상에서 찾고자 하는 지점의 좌표나 주소를 입력하면 모바일과 VR을 통해 해당 위치의 영상정보를 보여줄 수 있다. 또한 본 논문에서는 naver, daum, google에서 제공하는 기존의 국내 로드뷰 서비스와는 차별화된 해당 콘텐츠의 특징에 대해 기술하였다. 마지막으로 해당 시스템의 구현방법에 대해 설명하며, 시스템의 차후 확장성에 대해 연구하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.193-198
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• 2018

Applying VR technology to animation areas is emerging as a trend of recent years. So if you use this VR technology in traditional ink animation, 2D art piece is expected to be equipped with a new narrative style and visual and auditory language, making it a new animation genre. There's a lot of technical difficulties in putting the existing 2D ink image on a 360 degree display. VR ink animation has been created that gives depth to VR space by using layer extraction method based on depth of distance and placing layers extracted on curved surface that is aligned with depth in 360-degree space in the image of ink painting, which is the background of traditional ink animation. In the text, we took an overview on problems generated in extracting layers of distant view, close-range view and middle distant view from the existing image of ink painting and made suggestions of an effective way to approach them.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.93-98
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• 2020

In this paper, we proposed a technique in which subtitles are followed according to changes in the user's viewpoint in 360 VR. Create a Sphere object in Unity's Scene and insert a 360-degree image on the surface of the Sphere object. At this time, the ReverseNormals script is used to convert the viewpoint to the inside. The SightOrbitproved script is used to modify the camera view. Use this script to set the environment in which subtitles can move depending on the viewpoint. Next, add the 3D text (subtitle) that the user wants to the lower layer of the main camera and build a 360 VR object. The 3D text subtitles implemented through this study were compared according to the change of the user's viewpoint. As a result, as the viewpoint changes, normal subtitles flow out of line of sight according to the user's point of view, but 3D Text subtitles move according to the user's point of view, and it can be seen that the user can always view the subtitles.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.194-196
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• 2017

최근 들어 VR 관련 기술이 발전하고 대중화가 됨에 따라 VR 하드웨어 기술 이외에도 VR 영상에 대한 개발과 연구에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 이러한 VR 영상을 제작하기 위해서는 360 도의 전방위 촬영, 영상의 스티칭 및 프로젝션 그리고 사용자의 시야점획득을 통한 렌더링등과 같은 기술이 필요하다. 그러나 영상들의 스티칭, 프로젝션 등의 여러 단계의 과정을 거치면서 원 영상에 비하여 많은 왜곡이 발생하게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 제작과정 중 발생하는 기하학적 왜곡에 대해 분석한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.508-518
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• 2021

Recently as a result of covid 19, it has emphasis on the importance of non-contact. VR content has been attracting attention as an alternative to visual arts, media art, new media exhibitions and performances with limited offline activities. Although interest in 360 VR video contents such as VR contents for exhibitions and performances is increasing, research on immersion and satisfaction is focused on games and animation VR contents. In this paper, it verified the effect of the difference in the position and height of the VR camera in exhibitions and performances on the user's presence and satisfaction. For this experiment, the presence and satisfaction were measured after experiencing the VR contents of the convergence exhibition and performance filmed at different locations and heights. As a result of the experiment, the difference of VR camera's position had a significant effect on presence and satisfaction, the difference of VR camera's height had a significant effect only Realistic immersion of the presence.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.401-404
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• 2017

The 360 VR video has a format of a stereoscopic shape such as an isometric shape or a cubic shape or a cubic shape. Although these formats have different characteristics, they have in common that the resolution is higher than that of a normal 2D video. Therefore, it takes much longer time to perform coding/decoding on 360 VR video than 2D Video, so parallel processing techniques are essential when it comes to coding 360 VR video. HEVC, the state of art 2D video codec, uses Wavefront Parallel Processing (WPP) technology as a standard for parallelization. This technique is optimized for 2D videos and does not show optimal performance when used in 3D videos. Therefore, a suitable method for WPP is required for 3D video. In this paper, we propose WPP coding/decoding method which improves WPP performance on cube map format 3D video. The experiment was applied to the HEVC reference software HM 12.0. The experimental results show that there is no significant loss of PSNR compared with the existing WPP, and the coding complexity of 15% to 20% is further reduced. The proposed method is expected to be included in the future 3D VR video codecs.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.463-470
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• 2017

Currently, virtual reality contents using VR images are spotlighted since they can be easily created and utilized. But because VR images are in a state of lack of interaction, there are limitations in their applications and usability.In order to overcome this problem, we propose a new method in which 360 degree panorama image and game engine are utilized to develop a high resolution of interactive VR service in real time. In particular, since the background image, which is represented by a form of panorama image, is pre-generated through a heavy rendering computation, it can be used to provide a immersive VR service with a relatively small amount of computation in run time on a low performance device. In order to show the effectiveness of our proposed method, an interactive game of a virtual zoo environment was implemented and illustrated showing that it can improve user interaction and immersion experience in a pretty good way.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.47
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• pp.1-29
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• 2017

360-degree virtual reality has been a technology that has been available for a long time and has been actively promoted worldwide in recent years due to development of devices such as HMD (Head Mounted Display) and development of hardware for controlling and executing images of virtual reality. The production of the 360 degree VR requires a different mode of production than the traditional video production, and the matters to be considered for the user have begun to appear. Since the virtual reality image is aimed at a platform that requires enthusiasm, presence and interaction, it is necessary to have a suitable cinematography. In VR, users can freely enjoy the world created by the director and have the advantage of being able to concentrate on his interests during playing the image. However, the director had to develope and install the device what the observer could concentrate on the narrative progression and images to be delivered. Among the various methods of transmitting images, the director can use the composition of the short. In this paper, we will study how to effectively apply the technique of directing through the composition of this shot to 360 degrees virtual reality. Currently, there are no killer contents that are still dominant in the world, including inside and outside the country. In this situation, the potential of virtual reality is recognized and various images are produced. So the way of production follows the traditional image production method, and the shot composition is the same. However, in the 360 degree virtual reality, the use of the long take or blocking technique of the conventional third person view point is used as the main production configuration, and the limit of the short configuration is felt. In addition, while the viewer can interactively view the 360-degree screen using the HMD tracking, the configuration of the shot and the connection of the shot are absolutely dependent on the director like the existing cinematography. In this study, I tried to study whether the viewer can freely change the cinematography such as the composition of the shot at a user's desired time using the feature of interaction of the VR image. To do this, 3D animation was created using a game tool called Unreal Engine to construct an interactive image. Using visual scripting of Unreal Engine called blueprint, we create a device that distinguishes the true and false condition of a condition with a trigger node, which makes a variety of shorts. Through this, various direction techniques are developed and related research is expected, and it is expected to help the development of 360 degree VR image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.126-128
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• 2016

최근 VR은 다양한 장르에 콘텐츠를 융합함으로써 사용자에게 공간의 제약 없이 현장감 제공이 가능해짐에 따라 관심을 받기 시작했다. 또한 실감 콘텐츠 기술 확보가 가능해짐에 따라 다양한 사용자 체험형 콘텐츠 개발도 가능해지고 있다. 하지만 국내에서 VR산업은 게임분야를 제외하고 활용정도가 낮다. 이에 본 논문에서는 실감형 가상 여행 콘텐츠를 제작하여 HMD에 디스플레이하는 방법을 제안 및 구현한다. 360도 영상과 VR로 표출했기 때문에 개인방송 여행 콘텐츠에서 사용자에게 현지에서 직접 경험하는 듯한 몰입감과 현장감을 제공하고, 사용자 인터페이스를 접목하여 양방향 통신이 가능하도록 설계하여 콘텐츠를 체험하는데 편리성을 극대화하였다.