• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.190-191
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 RGB-D 카메라와 Mediapipe 모듈을 이용한 신체 추적 및 리깅 프레임 워크를 제안한다. Openpose 및 Mediapipe를 통해 스켈레톤 정보를 추출할 수 있으며, 이 정보를 그래픽스 엔진의 입력으로 사용하여 휴머노이드 아바타 기능을 통해 각 캐릭터의 아바타가 다르더라도 리깅을 구현할 수 있다. 결과적으로 수작업을 통해 리깅을 구현하는 시간을 단축시킬 수 있다. 두 모듈과 RGB-D 카메라를 통해 획득한 3차원 스켈레톤 정보를 통해 실시간으로 사용자를 추적하고 자동 rigging하는 그래픽스 엔진 프레임 워크를 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.763-765
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 저성능 컴퓨터나 스마트폰의 카메라를 통해 입력받은 영상을 기반으로 사용자의 포즈를 추정하고, 실시간으로 사용자의 포즈에 따라 3D 모델의 모션이 제어되어 가시화 될 수 있는 클라이어트-서버 구조의 "자세추정 및 3D 모델 모션 제어 시스템"을 제안한다. 제안 시스템은 소켓통신 기반의 클라이언트-서버구조로 구성되어, 서버에서는 실시간 자세 추정을 위한 딥러닝 모델이 수행되고, 저성능 클라이언트에서는 실시간으로 카메라 영상을 획득하여 영상을 서버에 전송하고, 서버로부터 자세 추정 정보를 받아 이를 3D 모델에 반영하고 렌더링 함으로써 사용자와 함께 3D 모델이 같은 동작을 수행하는 증강현실 화면을 생성한다. 고성능을 요구하는 객체 자세 추정 모듈은 서버에서 실행하고, 클라이언트에서는 영상 획득 및 렌더링만을 실행하기 때문에, 모바일 앱에서의 실시간 증강현실을 위한 자세 추정 및 3D 모델 모션 제어가 가능하다. 제안 시스템은 "증강현실 기반 영상 찍기 앱" 에 반영되어 사용자의 움직임을 따라하는 3D 캐릭터들의 영상을 쉽게 생성할 수 있도록 할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.659-672
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• 2016

In animated films, characters materialize narratives through acting. The narrative is an element to materialize accurate delivery of lines and emotions. The non-verbal actions should express lots of emotions and lines in scenes, and also they can be used as a way of empathy. This study analyzed the visualization factors of narrative focusing on a cat character frequently shown in animated films. For this, the visualization factors of non-verbal actions expressed in characters' personal space and dynamic space were extracted. Based on this, it aims to suggest the emotion expressing method of characters to realize effective narrative visualization. In the future, it aims to be used as reference data in case when producing non-verbal communication for 3D characters.

• Journal of Game and Entertainment
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.47-54
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• 2005

Squash & Stretch principle is playing an essential principle for animation action. The application of this principle gives the illusion of weight and volume to an animation character, and makes it possible that an animation action be the smooth and soft by escaping from the stiffness and rigidity. If an action of human or object on animation is expressed like a real world, it seems to be unnatural. Any action without Squash & Stretch will look rigid, uninteresting and not alive. It can be applied to movement of all objects, characters' actions, dialogues and facial expressions with a basic rule of mass, volume and gravity. Any action will not be well expressed without this principle. To be a good animation action, it should be deeply applied in 3D animation, not only 2D animation. Thus, a systemic analysis of Squash & Stretch principle is required.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.9
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• pp.250-265
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• 2005

Life drawing is one of the most important curriculum not only in 2D animation but also in 3D animation. It was secret weapon of Disney how they made great success of Snow White and Seven Dwarfs and all the fame of Disney animation. Life Drawing which has its back ground history is major curriculum of famous animation school such as CAL Arts which Disney made and Sheridan College in Canada. But in Korea, a lot of the universities and colleges which have animation department do not really seem to understand the importance of the life drawing and it's effectiveness, thus do not emphasize it as a short cut to get close to the real work field. Now that the academical society as well as industry are very well of the fact that the animation education is directly related to the animation industry, the schools should have to teach step by step and closer to the basic fundamentals. The intentions of this study is to emphasize the importance of the Life Drawing, one of the essential fundamental course, which not only help the universities and colleges that have animation course to organize their curriculum. but also to help the students who graduate the program easily find their position in the animation industry.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.139-146
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• 2024

This study analyzed the popularity factors of the virtual idol 'PLAVE' to provide insights for future virtual idol production and content management in the domestic entertainment industry. Three hypotheses were established and tested through an online survey conducted from May 7 to May 20, 2024, with 73 participants. After excluding insincere responses, 67 responses were regression-analyzed. All three hypotheses, regarding character realism, 2D webtoon design, and real-time communication, were validated with P-values below 0.05. These findings offer strategic insights for the domestic entertainment industry and suggest a new paradigm for the virtual idol sector.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.55-61
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• 2020

In this paper, we present a novel approach to efficiently control the location of NPC(Non-playable characters) in the interactive virtual world such as game, virtual reality. To control the NPC's movement path, we first calculate the main trajectory based on the user's path, and then move the NPC based on the weight map. Our method constructs automatically a navigation mesh that provides new paths for NPC by referencing the user trajectories. Our method enables adaptive changes to the virtual world over time and provides user-preferred path weights for smartagent path planning. We have tested the usefulness of our algorithm with several example scenarios from interactive worlds such as video games, virtual reality. In practice, our framework can be applied easily to any type of navigation in an interactive world.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.612-614
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• 2018

Today, technologies that can acquire modeling data by using image are emerging. That 3D modeling production method, which is frequently utilized in contents industries, creates modeling data by using creator's intuitive sense, with drawings sketched without accurate measurement tools is also true. Recently, technologies that can facilitate modification and amendment of existing design by producing and reorganizing three-dimensional data of a sculpture through combination of image information are developing. This thesis gives suggestion of how to utilize and study the way to produce accurate three-dimensional modeling data by utilizing multiple image data.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.37
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• pp.143-158
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• 2014

In the modeling processes of 3D computer animation, methods to build optimal work conditions to realize real forms for more efficient works have been advanced. Digital sculpting software, published in 1999, ZBrush has been positioned as an essential factor in character model work requiring of realistic descriptions through different manufacturing methods from previous modeling work processes and easy shape realization. Their functional areas are expanding. So, in this production case paper, as a method to product more optimized animation character models, the efficiency of production method linking digital sculpting software (Z-Brush) and animation production software (Maya) was deliberated and its consequences and implications are suggested. To this end, first the technical features of polygon modeling and Retopology were reviewed. Second, based on it, the efficiency of animation character modeling work processes through step linking ZBrush and Maya suggested in this paper was analyzed. Third, based on the features drawn before, in order to prove the hypothesis on modeling optimization method suggested in this paper, the production process of character Dumvee from a short animation film, 'Cula & Mina' was analyzed as an example. Through this study, it was found that technical approach easiness and high level of completion could be realized through two software linked work processes. This study is considered to be a reference for optimizing production process of related industries or modeling-related classes by deliberating different modeling process linked systems.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.79-94
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• 2007

In the ubiquitous computing age which uses a high quantity network, mobile devices such as wearable and hand-held ones with a small tamers and a wireless communication module will be widely used in near future. Thus, a lot of researches about an augmented game on mobile devices have been attempted recently. The existing augmented games used a traditional 'backpack' system and a pattern marker. The 'backpack' system is expensive, cumbersome and inconvenient to use, and because of the pattern marker, it is only possible to play the game in the previously installed palace. In this paper, we propose an augmented game called Flying Cake using a face region to create the virtual object(character) without the pattern marker, which manually indicates an overlapped location of the virtual object in the real world, on a small and mobile PDA instead of the cumbersome hardware. Flying Cake is an augmented shooting game. This game supplies us with two types: 1) a single player which attacks a virtual character on images captured by a camera in an outdoor physical area, 2) dual players which attack the virtual character on images which we received through a wireless LAN. We overlap the virtual character on the face region using a face detection technique, and users play Flying Cake though attacking the virtual character. Flying Cake supplies new pleasure to flayers with a new game paradigm through an interaction between the user in the physical world captured by the PDA camera and the virtual character in a virtual world using the face detection.