• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.7-17
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• 2005

Flash contents for education can embody easily complex interactions with learner by splendid contents of various multimedia and animation. Moreover, they provide high class user interface and have advantages of inducing learner's interest and concentration. However, authoring flash content requires the skill to use the Flash tool, which is too difficult for professor to make the educational Flash contents. In this paper, we proposed the system that professors can make the Flash contents automatically by selecting something necessary and typing texts on the web. Also, the reusability and usability of the implemented system is analyzed in the viewpoint of professor by comparing with conventional method to reuse the Flash contents from various viewpoints.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.9-16
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• 2008

The design and implementation of the interaction for tangible user interfaces require in-depth knowledge in many different disciplines, such as device control, sensing and calibrating devices, interaction design, low-level programming, and performance tuning. Many trial and error iterations are needed to determine the proper combination of the interaction techniques while using available interaction devices and considering the characteristics of contents. As a result, it takes too much effort and time to achieve maximum usability. This paper introduces a tangible user-interface platform, which is fabricated using various hardware devices and an XML-based authoring tool, which is developed in order to relieve content creators of the burden of the above difficulties. Finally, we demonstrate our work by illustrating some example contents.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.50-54
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• 2007

정보기술은 통신 및 멀티미디어 기술의 발전에 힘입어 빠르게 발전되고 있으며, 이에 따른 데이타베이스의 기술이 공간데이타, XML, 비디오, 음성과 같은 다양한 멀티미디어 데이터 분야에 적용되고 있다. 비디오 데이타는 순차적인 특성을 가지며, 시간과 공간정보가 결합된 3차원 데이타로서 처리시간이 높은 작업이기 때문에 검색이나 브라우징이 대단히 비효율적이다. 본 논문에서는 비주얼리듬을 이용하여 비디오 데이타에서 대표 프레임(Key Frame)을 추출한 다음 XML을 이용한 태그 및 키워드 정보를 대표 프레임에 삽입하여 검색이나 브라우징을 할 수 있는 동영상 내용편집 도구(Authoring Tool for Video Contents)를 제안한다. 비주얼리듬은 3차원의 시공간적인 정보를 2차원으로 매핑한 정보로 IDCT(inverse Discrete Cosine Transform)과정 없이 픽셀 정보를 얻을 수 있어 처리속도가 빠르며 컷, 와이프, 디졸브 등의 편집효과를 효과적으로 구분할 수 있다. 그리고 XML 데이타에는 태그 및 정보와 함께 대표 프레임의 정보까지 저장되므로 유사 화면 검색이나 내용 기반 검색을 제공할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.9
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• pp.1245-1248
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• 2020

Elderly people living alone need smart care for independent living. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have allowed for easier interaction by a computer-controlled virtual human. This technology can realize services such as medicine intake guide for the elderly living alone. In this paper, we suggest an intelligent virtual human and present our virtual human toolkit for controlling virtual humans for a senior citizen living alone. To make the virtual human motion, we suggest our authoring toolkit to map gestures, emotions, voices of virtual humans. The toolkit configured to create virtual human interactions allows the response of a suitable virtual human with facial expressions, gestures, and voice.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.289-295
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• 2006

The Musical Slide Show MAF, which currently being standardized by MPEG, conveys the concept of combining several established standard technologies in a single file format. It defines the format of packing up MP3 audio data, along with MPEG-7 Simple Metadata Profile and MPEG-21 Digital Item Declaration metadata; with JPEC images and optional text, and synchronizes them all together to create a slideshow of JPEC image data associated to MP3 audio data during the audio playback. The implementation of Musical Slide Show MAF can be a music karaoke file where users can sing along while listening to the music, view the JPEG slideshow and reading the lyrics; or a story-telling file where users can listen to the narrated story by looking at the related illustration slideshow of the story In this paper we present the tool to producing the Musical Slide Show MAF contents. Regardless the knowledge of user on the MAF file format, the authoring tool simplify the manner of packaging several multimedia contents into single file.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.23-31
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• 2016

This study aims to develop a stereoscopic image authoring tool to effectively produce e-Book content that enhances user's sense of immersion in 3D environments. The proposed authoring tool consists of three core systems; 3D object editing, stereoscopic image, and image media production systems. First, the object editing system arranges and produces diverse objects that constitute virtual 3D spaces to fit the purpose of the content. In this case, commercial graphic authoring tools are utilized to design efficient data structures that can include produced external models. In addition, the material and textures of objects are made to be revisable and editable into the form wanted by the user. Thereafter, a stereoscopic image system will be implemented to produce the generated virtual scenes into stereoscopic images. This study uses the Anaglyph method so that the user can implement and use stereoscopic image scenes more easily. This method include functions to change the color of stereo cameras and control depth scaling. Finally, an image media production system will be implemented that will enable producing the produced stereoscopic images into single images or videos so that they can be effectively utilized in e-Book content.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.483-496
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• 2012

We explored the method of teaching and learning of 3D based software which is useful for 3D content's authoring and utilization as a suitable tool of teaching and learning for 'Smart Learning' environments. To investigate the possibility of application in the field, we applied this software to 'Smart School' temporally. After that, we conducted a survey of learning satisfaction of students, and assessed the possibility of application in the field via one-on-one talk with teachers. As a result, we drew a positive conclusion for the applications, which are instructional medias in various subject areas, presenting materials for motivation, a tool for individual or cooperative presentation, and instructional medias for underachieving students or gifted students.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.499-500
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• 2014

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.25-37
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• 2015

This study has developed a mobile AR contents Builder (MARB) featuring the augmentation of virtual objects, e. g. 2D images, 3D models and videos on user-preferred markers in mobile environment and with connected interaction events. The developed MARB is capable of augmenting multiple virtual objects on markers preferred by users, and selectively supporting many marker-specific interaction events. The MARB is also developed as a mobile App for convenience of use in the mobile environment. This makes users to implement AR contents by a GUI-based authoring procedure on the mobile device. The developed MARB allows App developers and general users to author mobile contents easily and can be applied to various field by those who wish to use diverse mobile AR contents. Moreover, the MARB will provide solutions for the expansion of mobile AR market, by overcoming the difficulties of mobile AR content development.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.612-630
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• 2016

As mobile augmented reality technologies are spreading these days, many users want to produce augmented reality (AR) contents what they need by themselves. To keep pace with such needs, we have developed a mobile AR contents builder (hereafter referred to as MARB) that enables the user to easily connect a natural marker and a virtual object with various interaction events that are used to manipulate the virtual object in a mobile environment so that users can simply produce an AR content using natural photos and virtual objects that they select. MARB consists of five major modules-target manger, virtual object manager, AR accessory manager, AR content manager, and AR viewer. The target manager, virtual object manager and AR accessory manager register and manage natural target markers, various virtual objects and content accessories (such as various decorating images), respectively. The AR content manger defines a connection between a target and a virtual object with enabling various interactions for the desired functions such as translation/rotation/scaling of the virtual object, playing of a music, etc. AR viewer augments various virtual objects (such as 2D images, 3D models and video clips) on the pertinent target. MARB has been developed in a mobile application (app) format in order to create AR contents simply using mobile smart devices without switching to a PC environment for authoring the content. In this paper, we present the detail organizations and applications of MARB. It is expected that MARB will enable ordinary users to produce diverse mobile AR contents for various purposes with ease and contribute to expanding the mobile AR market based on spread of a variety of AR contents.