• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.36
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• pp.147-165
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• 2014

Around the turn of 21st century, there has been a major technological shift in the animation industry. With development of reality-based computer graphics, major American animation studios replaced hand-drawn method with the new 3D computer graphics. Traditional animation was known for its simplified shapes such as circles and triangle that makes characters' movements distinctive from non-animated feature films. Computer-generated animation has largely replaced it, but is under continuous criticism that automated movements and reality-like graphics devaluate the aesthetics of animation. Although hand-drawn animation is still produced, 3D computer graphics have taken commercial lead and there has been many changes to acting of animated characters, which calls for detailed investigation. Firstly, the changes in acting of 3D characters can be traced from looking at human-like rigging method that mimics humanistic moving mechanism. Also, if hair and clothing was part of hand-drawn characters' acting, it has now been hidden inside mathematical simulation of 3D graphics, leaving only the body to be used in acting. Secondly, looking at "Stretch and Squash" method, which represents the distinctive movements of animation, through the lens of media, a paradox arises. Hand-drawn animation are produced frame-by-frame, and a subtle change would make animated frames shiver. This slight shivering acts as an aesthetic distinction of animated feature films, but can also require exaggerated movements to hide the shivering. On the contrary, acting of 3D animation make use of calculated movements that may seem exaggerated compared to human acting, but seem much more moderate and static compared to hand-drawn acting. Moreover, 3D computer graphics add the third dimension that allows more intuitive movements - maybe animators no longer need fine drawing skills; what they now need is directing skills to animate characters in 3D space intuitively. On the assumption that technological advancement and change of artistic expressionism are inseparable, this paper compares acting of 3D animation studio Pixar and classical drawing studio Disney to investigate character acting style and movements.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.61-71
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• 2018

When triangular meshes are generated from the point clouds in global space reconstructed through camera pose estimation against captured RGB-D streams, the quality of the resulting meshes improves as more triangles are hired. However, for 3D reconstructed models beyond some size threshold, they become to suffer from the ugly-looking artefacts due to the insufficient precision of RGB-D sensors as well as significant burdens in memory requirement and rendering cost. In this paper, for the generation of 3D models appropriate for real-time applications, we propose an effective technique that extracts high-quality textures for moderate-sized meshes from the captured colors associated with the reconstructed point sets. In particular, we show that via a simple method based on the mapping between the 3D global space resulting from the camera pose estimation and the 2D texture space, textures can be generated effectively for the 3D models reconstructed from captured RGB-D image streams.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 바이러스와 같은 생화학 물질의 분자구조를 3 차원 모델로 시각화하여 관찰하고, 그 분자모델을 직관적인 방법으로 조작하기 위한 가상 현실 분자 모델링 시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템을 사용하면, 입체영상 디스플레이 장치와 데이터 글러브 및 동작 추적 장치를 사용하여 3 차원 분자 모델을 실감나게 조작할 수 있어서 효율적으로 분자들을 관찰하고 결합, 분리하는 등의 분자 모델링 작업이 가능하다. 사용자들은 마우스나 키보드 등의 장비 대신에 자연스러운 몸 동작이나 손 동작을 이용하여 분자 모델링 작업을 위한 동작을 하게 된다. 분자들의 결합을 화학적으로 정확하게, 그리고 실시간으로 시뮬레이션 하기 위해서 에너지 계산 알고리즘을 구현하였으며 이러한 작업이 가능하도록 분자 구조를 표현하는 새로운 자료구조를 제안하였다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 동작 기반의 VR 분자 모델링 시스템의 타당성을 검증하기 위하여 HIV 바이러스 분자를 가지고 분자 모델링 작업을 수행하였고, 사용자 테스트를 실시하여 기존의 방식과 작업 성능 및 사용자 만족도를 비교하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.07a
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• pp.219-220
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• 2022

3D 그래픽스 환경에서 입체적인 물체가 2D 모니터에 보여지는 과정에는 여러 단계의 공간 변환과 행렬 계산을 거치게 된다. 이러한 공간 변환은 각 단계가 어떤 의미인지 쉽게 이해하기에 어려운 면이 있다. 본 논문에서는 유니티 3D 엔진에서 작동하는 셰이더를 통해 각 단계의 공간을 시각화 하여 학생들이 보다 쉽게 공간 변환을 이해하는 시각화 방법을 제시한다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.780-785
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• 2006

HCI, 비전 기반 사용자 인터페이스 또는 제스쳐 인식과 같은 많은 분야에서 3 차원 얼굴 모션을 추정하는 것은 중요한 작업이다. 연속된 2 차원 이미지로부터 3 차원 모션을 추정하기 위한 방법으로는 크게 외형 기반 방법이나 모델을 이용하는 방법이 있다. 본 연구에서는 동영상으로부터 3 차원 실린더 모델과 Optical flow를 이용하여 실시간으로 얼굴 모션을 추정하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 초기 프레임으로부터 얼굴의 피부색과 템플릿 매칭을 이용하여 얼굴 영역을 검출하고 검출된 얼굴 영역에 3 차원 실린더 모델을 투영하게 된다. 연속된 프레임으로 부터 Lucas-Kanade 의 Optical flow 를 이용하여 얼굴 모션을 추정한다. 정확한 얼굴 모션 추정을 하기 위해 IRLS 방법을 이용하여 각 픽셀에 대한 가중치를 설정하게 된다. 또한, 동적 템플릿을 이용해 오랫동안 정확한 얼굴 모션 추정하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.23-28
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• 1997

We reconstruct 3D surface from range image that consists of range map and texture map, and simplify the reconstructed triangular mesh. In this paper, we introduce fast simplification method that is able to glue texture to 3D surface model and adapt to real-time multipled level-of detail. We will verify the efficiency by applying to the scanned data of Korean relics.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.45-57
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• 2009

ETexture mapping is a technique used for adding reality to an image in 3D graphics. However. this technique becomes the bottleneck of the 3D graphics pipeline because it requires large processing power and high memory bandwidth. For reducing memory latency in texture mapping, texture cache is used. As portable devices become smaller and they have power constraint, it is important to reduce the area and the power consumption of the texture cache. In this paper we propose using a small texture cache to reduce the area and the power consumption of the texture cache. Furthermore, we propose techniques to keep a performance comparable to large texture caches by using prefetch techniques and a victim cache. Simulation results show the proposed small texture cache can reduce the area and the power consumption up to 70% and 60%, respectively, by using $1{\sim}2K$ bytes texture cache compared to the conventional 16K bytes cache while keeping the performance.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.11-19
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• 2010

This paper describes how to define and implement the schema for 3D virtual objects with physical units so that the objects can be compared in virtual environments based on physical properties, such as length, according to the specified units. We define physical units for virtual objects using the International System of Units and based on the X3D (Extensible 3D) specification. The schema must be defined with validation so that it does not violate the original X3D data structure. In this paper, we have extended the original X3D schema with a physical unit specification, and demonstrate the difference between units-specified and non-units-specified 3D scenes using an X3D browser that we developed.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.1-11
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• 2012

As process technology scales down, the number of cores integrated into a processor increases dramatically, leading to significant performance improvement. Especially, the GPU(Graphics Processing Unit) containing many cores can provide high computational performance by maximizing the parallelism. In the GPU architecture, the access latency to the main memory becomes one of the major reasons restricting the performance improvement. In this work, we analyze the performance improvement of the 3D GPU architecture compared to the 2D GPU architecture quantitatively and investigate the potential problems of the 3D GPU architecture. In general, memory instructions account for 30% of total instructions, and global/local memory instructions constitutes 60% of total memory instructions. Therefore, the performance of the 3D GPU is expected to be improved significantly compared to the 2D GPU by reducing the delay of memory instructions. However, according to our experimental results, the 3D architecture improves the GPU performance only by 2% compared to the 2D architecture due to the memory bottleneck, since the performance reduction due to memory bottleneck in the 3D GPU architecture increases by 245% compared to the 2D architecture. This paper provides the guideline for suitable memory design by analyzing the efficiency of the memory architecture in 3D GPU architecture.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.269-276
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• 2008

Recently, the concerning about cultural heritages has been increased. As a result, the protection, repairing and restoration of cultural assets have been actively in progress. The biggest project of cultural asset reconstructions is the restoration of Kyungbok Palace and it has been in proceed step by step since in 1989. The actual sizes of these traditional buildings have been measured and recorded for future maintenance. In this paper, the 3D computer graphic technique is used to help understanding the inner structures of the traditional buildings as well as their construction processes. In other word, the construction simulation of Keunjeongjun which is the center building of Kyungbok Palace have been produced using 3D computer graphic techniques. The purpose of this project is aiding people in understanding the process of traditional palace architecture in Korea.