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Depth Camera-Based Posture Discrimination and Motion Interpolation for Real-Time Human Simulation (실시간 휴먼 시뮬레이션을 위한 깊이 카메라 기반의 자세 판별 및 모션 보간)

  • Lee, Jinwon;Han, Jeongho;Yang, Jeongsam
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.68-79
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    • 2014
  • Human model simulation has been widely used in various industrial areas such as ergonomic design, product evaluation and characteristic analysis of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. However, the process of building digital human models and capturing their behaviors requires many costly and time-consuming fabrication iterations. To overcome the limitations of this expensive and time-consuming process, many studies have recently presented a markerless motion capture approach that reconstructs the time-varying skeletal motions from optical devices. However, the drawback of the markerless motion capture approach is that the phenomenon of occlusion of motion data occurs in real-time human simulation. In this study, we propose a systematic method of discriminating missing or inaccurate motion data due to motion occlusion and interpolating a sequence of motion frames captured by a markerless depth camera.

A Novel Computer Human Interface to Remotely Pick up Moving Human's Voice Clearly by Integrating ]Real-time Face Tracking and Microphones Array

  • Hiroshi Mizoguchi;Takaomi Shigehara;Yoshiyasu Goto;Hidai, Ken-ichi;Taketoshi Mishima
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.75-80
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    • 1998
  • This paper proposes a novel computer human interface, named Virtual Wireless Microphone (VWM), which utilizes computer vision and signal processing. It integrates real-time face tracking and sound signal processing. VWM is intended to be used as a speech signal input method for human computer interaction, especially for autonomous intelligent agent that interacts with humans like as digital secretary. Utilizing VWM, the agent can clearly listen human master's voice remotely as if a wireless microphone was put just in front of the master.

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Design of Fuzzy Controller for a 2-Dimensional Wire-Driven Heavy Material Lifting System (2차원 와이어 구동식 중량물 권양 시스템을 위한 퍼지제어기 설계)

  • Lee, Yong-Chan;Lee, Hyeng-Jun;Lee, Yun-Jung
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.97-104
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    • 2015
  • A fuzzy controller and a 2-dimensional wire-driven heavy material lifting system helping human operator are proposed in this paper. The 2-dimensional wire-driven heavy material lifting system is a kind of human-assistive systems in which a human is involved in the control loop. Most of the existing human-assistive control systems cannot consider human operator's characteristic. To consider human operator's characteristic, human's operating motion and requirement of reducing operator's force to lift a heavy material are considered in the design process of the proposed fuzzy controller. The performance of the proposed system is verified by experiments.

Thermal Signature Characteristics of Clothed Human Considering Thermoregulation Effects (체온 조절 작용을 고려한 의복 착용 시의 인체 열상신호 특성 분석)

  • Chang, Injoong;Bae, Ji-Yeul;Lee, Namkyu;Kwak, Hwykuen;Cho, Hyung Hee
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2019
  • Survivability of soldiers has been greatly threatened by the development of thermal observation device(TOD). Therefore, infrared, especially thermal, stealth technology is applied to combat suit to avoid detection from TOD. In this study, prior to the thermal camouflage performance evaluation of combat suit, thermal signature characteristic from clothed the human body was analyzed considering the realistic condition for human surface temperature compared to that from unclothed human body. To get the realistic surface temperature distribution of human, thermoregulation and multi-layer skin structure model is applied to the human model. Based on temperature distribution, surface diffuse radiance in thermal range is calculated and by assuming the background conditions, contrast radiance intensity(CRI) characteristic of human body is analyzed. By wearing clothing, the CRI between background and human body became reduced in low emissive background but in high emissive background, the contrast is much more prominent. Therefore, this issue should be considered in design process of thermal camouflage combat suit.

A Study on the Relation between the Human Resource Management and Management Performance in Enterprise : Focused on the Malcolm Baldrige's Evaluation Model (기업의 인적자원관리와 경영성과의 관계에 대한 연구 : 말콤 볼드리지 평가 기준을 중심으로)

  • Park, Hyung-Keun;Chung, Young-Bae
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.85-99
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    • 2010
  • This study is to identify the present condition and level of human resource administration in domestic profit and non-profit organizations, and to investigate on the relation between human resource management and management performance in enterprise. This study is to make items related to the human resource management of American Malcolm Baldrige Award's level and management performance researching questions, investigates seven patterns of organs surveyed positively. The results are as follows: Firstly, the profit organs like manufacturing companies shows more positive than non-profit in comparison with human resource management of each organs. And a local government and public enterprise which is non-profit show to recognize human resource management is insufficient on th whole. Secondly, perception level of a medical institution, educational institution and service industry about aromaticity of human resource management by global standard shows to be positive, but the local government negative. Thirdly, the profit organ in the recognition of human resource management about details practice too, shows to be positive, while non-profit negative. Fourth, the result which compares and analyzes management performance between the similar industry overall show to recognize positive, but public enterprise negative about product, service performance and human resource management. Fifthly, the details practice of human resource administration shows to influence meaningly to all management performance. Therefore, all organizations will positively confront human resource management, make the circumstance of organization through systematic program, and promote the management performance of the organization.

The Effects of the Human-body Stiffness on the Response of the Footbridge (사람의 강성이 교량의 거동에 미치는 영향)

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    • Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.261-266
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    • 2000
  • This paper consider the effects of the human-body stiffness on the response of the footbridge to ground shaking by an earthquake. A mass-spring, suggested by Tianjian Ji(1999), describing the stiffness of the human body and an inert mass specified in the Code as the appropriate human whole-body model are used and the responses of the structure in both cases to ground shaking are were compared. Finally this paper ascertains whether the consideration of the human body as a mass is safe in the aseismic design.

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Human Reliability Analysis for Digitized Nuclear Power Plants: Case Study on the LingAo II Nuclear Power Plant

  • Zou, Yanhua;Zhang, Li;Dai, Licao;Li, Pengcheng;Qing, Tao
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.335-341
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    • 2017
  • The main control room (MCR) in advanced nuclear power plants (NPPs) has changed from analog to digital control system (DCS). Operation and control have become more automated, centralized, and accurate due to the digitalization of NPPs, which has improved the efficiency and security of the system. New issues associated with human reliability inevitably arise due to the adoption of new accident procedures and digitalization of main control rooms in NPPs. The LingAo II NPP is the first digital NPP in China to apply the state-oriented procedure. In order to address issues related to human reliability analysis for DCS and DCS + state-oriented procedure, the Hunan Institute of Technology conducted a research project based on a cooperative agreement with the LingDong Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. This paper is a brief introduction to the project.

Effective Model and Methods for Analysing Human Factors in Software Design for Efficient User Experience

  • Abduljalil, Sami;Kang, Dae-Ki
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.100-104
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    • 2011
  • In software system development, an application interface is the main communication platform between human developers and applications. Interaction in any software application requires human's mental and physical activities. Although software systems have increased drastically in diverse sectors and many forms to quench human's needs and satisfactions, human always concern about the ease in usability of the software application so that it can be easily understood and navigated. Since many software developers still focus on the quantity of contents instead of the quality of the interface from the user's point of view, it is important to address human factors need in the early stage of the design and to continue addressing them during the entire stages of the software design for the persistent support of usability. In this paper, we propose the Modified Prototype Model (MPM), which helps the software designers and developers to design user-friendly software systems with easy-to-navigate interfaces by uncovering human factors in a convenient way. Moreover, we propose methods that assist to identify more human factors regarding software design. In this paper, we also study the implications of the proposed model and the proposed methods.

Human Posture Recognition: Methodology and Implementation

  • Htike, Kyaw Kyaw;Khalifa, Othman O.
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.1910-1914
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    • 2015
  • Human posture recognition is an attractive and challenging topic in computer vision due to its promising applications in the areas of personal health care, environmental awareness, human-computer-interaction and surveillance systems. Human posture recognition in video sequences consists of two stages: the first stage is training and evaluation and the second is deployment. In the first stage, the system is trained and evaluated using datasets of human postures to ‘teach’ the system to classify human postures for any future inputs. When the training and evaluation process is deemed satisfactory as measured by recognition rates, the trained system is then deployed to recognize human postures in any input video sequence. Different classifiers were used in the training such as Multilayer Perceptron Feedforward Neural networks, Self-Organizing Maps, Fuzzy C Means and K Means. Results show that supervised learning classifiers tend to perform better than unsupervised classifiers for the case of human posture recognition.