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Wearable Computers

  • Cho, Gil-Soo;Barfield, Woodrow;Baird, Kevin
    • Fiber Technology and Industry
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.490-508
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    • 1998
  • One of the latest fields of research in the area of output devices is tactual display devices [13,31]. These tactual or haptic devices allow the user to receive haptic feedback output from a variety of sources. This allows the user to actually feel virtual objects and manipulate them by touch. This is an emerging technology and will be instrumental in enhancing the realism of wearable augmented environments for certain applications. Tactual displays have previously been used for scientific visualization in virtual environments by chemists and engineers to improve perception and understanding of force fields and of world models populated with the impenetrable. In addition to tactual displays, the use of wearable audio displays that allow sound to be spatialized are being developed. With wearable computers, designers will soon be able to pair spatialized sound to virtual representations of objects when appropriate to make the wearable computer experience even more realistic to the user. Furthermore, as the number and complexity of wearable computing applications continues to grow, there will be increasing needs for systems that are faster, lighter, and have higher resolution displays. Better networking technology will also need to be developed to allow all users of wearable computers to have high bandwidth connections for real time information gathering and collaboration. In addition to the technology advances that make users need to wear computers in everyday life, there is also the desire to have users want to wear their computers. In order to do this, wearable computing needs to be unobtrusive and socially acceptable. By making wearables smaller and lighter, or actually embedding them in clothing, users can conceal them easily and wear them comfortably. The military is currently working on the development of the Personal Information Carrier (PIC) or digital dog tag. The PIC is a small electronic storage device containing medical information about the wearer. While old military dog tags contained only 5 lines of information, the digital tags may contain volumes of multi-media information including medical history, X-rays, and cardiograms. Using hand held devices in the field, medics would be able to call this information up in real time for better treatment. A fully functional transmittable device is still years off, but this technology once developed in the military, could be adapted tp civilian users and provide ant information, medical or otherwise, in a portable, not obstructive, and fashionable way. Another future device that could increase safety and well being of its users is the nose on-a-chip developed by the Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee. This tiny digital silicon chip about the size of a dime, is capable of 'smelling' natural gas leaks in stoves, heaters, and other appliances. It can also detect dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. This device can also be configured to notify the fire department when a leak is detected. This nose chip should be commercially available within 2 years, and is inexpensive, requires low power, and is very sensitive. Along with gas detection capabilities, this device may someday also be configured to detect smoke and other harmful gases. By embedding this chip into workers uniforms, name tags, etc., this could be a lifesaving computational accessory. In addition to the future safety technology soon to be available as accessories are devices that are for entertainment and security. The LCI computer group is developing a Smartpen, that electronically verifies a user's signature. With the increase in credit card use and the rise in forgeries, is the need for commercial industries to constantly verify signatures. This Smartpen writes like a normal pen but uses sensors to detect the motion of the pen as the user signs their name to authenticate the signature. This computational accessory should be available in 1999, and would bring increased peace of mind to consumers and vendors alike. In the entertainment domain, Panasonic is creating the first portable hand-held DVD player. This device weight less than 3 pounds and has a screen about 6' across. The color LCD has the same 16:9 aspect ratio of a cinema screen and supports a high resolution of 280,000 pixels and stereo sound. The player can play standard DVD movies and has a hour battery life for mobile use. To summarize, in this paper we presented concepts related to the design and use of wearable computers with extensions to smart spaces. For some time, researchers in telerobotics have used computer graphics to enhance remote scenes. Recent advances in augmented reality displays make it possible to enhance the user's local environment with 'information'. As shown in this paper, there are many application areas for this technology such as medicine, manufacturing, training, and recreation. Wearable computers allow a much closer association of information with the user. By embedding sensors in the wearable to allow it to see what the user sees, hear what the user hears, sense the user's physical state, and analyze what the user is typing, an intelligent agent may be able to analyze what the user is doing and try to predict the resources he will need next or in the near future. Using this information, the agent may download files, reserve communications bandwidth, post reminders, or automatically send updates to colleagues to help facilitate the user's daily interactions. This intelligent wearable computer would be able to act as a personal assistant, who is always around, knows the user's personal preferences and tastes, and tries to streamline interactions with the rest of the world.

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The Analysis and Implementation of Realistic Sound using Doppler Effect (도플러 효과를 이용한 실감 음향 분석 및 구현)

  • Yim, Yong-Min;Lim, Heung-Jun;Heo, Jun-Seok;Park, Jun-Young;Do, Yun-Hyung;Lee, Kangwhan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.523-526
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    • 2017
  • In modern recently technology, 3D-Audio is used to enhance immersion in Virtual Reality. This includes interest of people about VR and AR, which related to the field of computer graphics. In fact, a lot of research has been carried out in recent years into a 3D sound field. However, the existing 3D generator device used for virtual reality does not contain Doppler effect occurred by the sound comes to or leave from a listener, while an angle from the listener and the altitude of the source sound are applied. Therefore, this paper present 3D real sound utilizing Doppler effect with spatial-rotation-speaker. We map the source sound in 3D-space into a real space where a user stays and present 3D real sound by manipulating with rotation angle, phase difference, sound output volume of the sound in 3D-space, according to the location of a virtual source sound. Utilizing both natural Doppler effect of rotating sound that is occurring by spatial-rotation-speaker and artificial Doppler effect generated by frequency-modulation of sound quality could improving the virtual reality for sound condition for perspective listening.

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ROUTE/DASH-SRD based Point Cloud Content Region Division Transfer and Density Scalability Supporting Method (포인트 클라우드 콘텐츠의 밀도 스케일러빌리티를 지원하는 ROUTE/DASH-SRD 기반 영역 분할 전송 방법)

  • Kim, Doohwan;Park, Seonghwan;Kim, Kyuheon
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.849-858
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    • 2019
  • Recent developments in computer graphics technology and image processing technology have increased interest in point cloud technology for inputting real space and object information as three-dimensional data. In particular, point cloud technology can accurately provide spatial information, and has attracted a great deal of interest in the field of autonomous vehicles and AR (Augmented Reality)/VR (Virtual Reality). However, in order to provide users with 3D point cloud contents that require more data than conventional 2D images, various technology developments are required. In order to solve these problems, an international standardization organization, MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group), is in the process of discussing efficient compression and transmission schemes. In this paper, we provide a region division transfer method of 3D point cloud content through extension of existing MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP)-SRD (Spatial Relationship Description) technology, quality parameters are further defined in the signaling message so that the quality parameters can be selectively determined according to the user's request. We also design a verification platform for ROUTE (Real Time Object Delivery Over Unidirectional Transport)/DASH based heterogeneous network environment and use the results to validate the proposed technology.

Suggestions for Color Palette Interface - focusing on Adobe's illustration - (컬러팔레트인터페이스에 관한 제안 -어도비사의 일러스트레이션을 중심으로-)

  • Choi, Young-Ok
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.20 no.3 s.71
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    • pp.15-28
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    • 2007
  • It is safe to say that color is among the most important elements in design. Thus, most designers give much thought about color while finishing their works. However, it is not easy to use the color interface of computer graphics programs, which makes it difficult for designers to apply the color theory and color scheme theory they've learned at school into the real design works. In fact, the same color systems as those of Adobe's first version of Photoshop or other illustration programs are still being used. Despite the advancement of digital equipment and development of printing technology, color palettes haven't changed accordingly, making it difficult to find a proper color coordination. Based on surveys and color scheme theories and taking designers' convenience into consideration, I will suggest in this paper a new color interface with which the color system and color scheme theories can be easily applied. However, its use in reality is not dealth with in this paper since it requires more practical discussions and studies.

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A Hybrid Generation Method of Visual Effects for Mobile Entertainment Applications (모바일 엔터테인먼트 애플리케이션을 위한 혼합적 시각 효과 생성 방법)

  • Kim, Byung-Cheol
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.367-380
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    • 2015
  • This paper proposes a hybrid rendering method which combines pre-computed global illumination results and interactive local illumination techniques and thus could interactively produce photo-realistic visual effects for mobile entertainment applications. The proposed method uses the programmable shading capability of OpenGL, a de facto standard for computer graphics library so that it can be deployed in a real-world development environment. Also, it increases the rendering time by a negligible amount compared to normal rendering time since the pre-computed results are used as operands of plain arithmetic operations. Therefore it is expected to be applicable in practice for mobiles games which require real-time responsiveness to users.

Construction of 3D Virtual City on the Web (Web 3D 가상도시 구축)

  • Lee, Jong-Ki;Lim, Il-Sik;Kim, Byung-Guk
    • Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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    • v.5 no.1 s.9
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    • pp.83-89
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    • 2003
  • The GIS which is analysis of the real world to construction of 3D virtual city develop s in rapid growth. 3D virtual city is simulated by use of a GIS, Computer graphics, virtual reality and Spatial database. In this paper 3D topographical basemap which have the geographic coordinate of world was constructed by digital map. And build the Cyber city with combining the building that have elevation and 3D topographical basemap. By using server/client system for the cyber city. 3D cyber city web service implemented. We proposed the hybrid base web service method rather than the image or vector base web service. By the spatial and attribute search in the 3D Cyber City, overcome the existing simple visibility of Web 3D technology, and exhibited development direction to the Web 3D GIS.

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Idea proposal of InfograaS for Visualization of Public Big-data (공공 빅데이터의 시각화를 위한 InfograaS의 아이디어 제안)

  • Cha, Byung-Rae;Lee, Hyung-Ho;Sim, Su-Jeong;Kim, Jong-Won
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.524-531
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we have proposed the processing and analyzing the linked open data (LOD), a kind of big-data, using resources of cloud computing. The LOD is web-based open data in order to share and recycle of public data. Specially, we defined the InfograaS (Info-graphic as a service), new business area of SaaS (software as a service), to support visualization technique for BA (business analytics) and Info-graphic. The goal of this study is easily to use it by the non-specialist and beginner without experts of visualization and business analysis. Data visualization is the process to represent visually and understand the data analysis easily. The purpose of data visualization is to deliver information clearly and effectively by chart and figure. The big data of public data are shared and presented in the charts and the graphics understood easily by various processing results using Hadoop, R, machine learning, and data mining of open source and resources of cloud computing.

Analysis of Image Expression in Make-up Illustration (메이크업 일러스트레이션의 이미지 표현)

  • Lee, Kyung-Hee;Choi, Hee-Ja
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.7
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    • pp.233-243
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    • 2010
  • Thanks to the rapid advance of modern technology in industrial society, economic and material abundances have not only caused a variety of cultural industry to develop but also brought about the development of beauty treatment industry. Like this, the industry has continually expanded into the public rapidly by forming a new beauty trend along with the growth of mass media such as T.V, advertisement, vogue magazine, and film. And make-up is also broadening its artistic areas by utilizing various expression skills and consistently changing with beauty trends, which has influences on Make-up Illustration. As a result, it has been recognized as a new conception of 'art' expanding in interpretation of communicating with the masses under condition of modern culture and stressed in its part more and more. It is expected that Make-up Illustration playing an important role in the exchange of fashion trend information between beauty treatment industry and people will be studied in different-image-expression ways to raise its artistic value and be a useful material for research and creation activities in the foreseeable future by Make-up Illustration made of computer graphics.

Simulacra Theory as a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Expression and Technology in (<수면의 과학>에 나타난 시뮬라시옹 표현기법 연구)

  • Bang, Yoon-Kyeong
    • Cartoon and Animation Studies
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    • s.24
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    • pp.135-154
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    • 2011
  • Simulacra theory as propounded by Jean Baudrillard in his seminal treatise, "Simulacra and Simulation," explores the significance of images, media and art in contemporary culture. Its central theoretical premise is the simulacrum, a sign or symbol that plays a crucial role in constructing perceived reality but which lacks a real-world referent. In Michel Gondry creates simulacra in the form of hallucinatory dream imagery by combining stop-motion animation and live-action elements. As experimental film-making that combines analog and minimum digital technologies, the result is a tour-de-force of synchronization. This study analyzes the film's technique and expressive content and, by adopting simulacra theory as a conceptual framework, aims to provide a better understanding of Gondry's work.

Comparison of Prediction Algorithms in Tracking System of Multiple Vehicles (다중차량 추적시스템의 예측 알고리듬 비교)

  • Kim, In-Haeng;Kim, Whoi-Yul
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.156-166
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    • 1999
  • In multi-vehicle tracking systems Kalman filter is generally used for tracking vehicles. Despite well known advantages of Kalman filter that presents optimality with constraints, it is difficult to track several vehicles in real time simultaneously due to a large number of computations. In this paper, we propose a multi-vehicle tracking system with an adaptive predictor that employs recursive least square algorithm which can be easily implemented for real time application on a transversal filter. The performance of the proposed tracking system is compared to one with Kalman filter using a synthetic sequential image generated by computer graphics and real sequential image taken at intersections. Simulation results show that the proposed tracking system can be applied to track vehicles in real sequential image at the rate of 30 frame/sec on a PC environments without any special hardwares.

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