• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2013

모션 캡처 장치는 자연스러운 인체 동작을 생성하는 것을 용이하게 하여 영화, 컴퓨터 게임, 컴퓨터 애니메이션 등 여러 분야에서 폭넓게 사용되고 있다. 그 중 관성 센서를 활용한 모션 캡처 장치는 보다 널리 사용되고 있는 광학 모션 캡처 장비에 비해 소요 공간과 비용 측면에서 이점을 가지고 있으나 비교적 높은 노이즈로 인해 측정 결과의 정밀도가 떨어지는 단점이 있다. 특히 관성 센서에 포함되어 중력 방향을 계측하는 가속도 센서는 센서의 선형 가속 운동으로 인해 중력 방향의 계측 정밀도가 떨어지는 문제를 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 관절체에 부착된 센서의 자세 측정 정확도를 높이기 위해 가속도 센서에서 선형 가속도 성분을 제거하는 기법을 제안한다. 아울러 센서가 부착되어 있는 관절체의 회전축 및 센서의 부착 위치를 보정하는 기법을 소개한다. 이 보정 기법은 관성 센서가 관절체의 임의의 위치와 방향으로 부착되는 것을 가능하게 한다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.676-683
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• 2007

A non-invasive respiratory gated radiotherapy system like those based on external anatomic motion gives better comfortableness to patients than invasive system on treatment. However, higher correlation between the external and internal anatomic motion is required to increase the effectiveness of non-invasive respiratory gated radiotherapy. Both of invasive and non-invasive methods need to track the internal anatomy with the higher precision and rapid response. Especially, the non-invasive method has more difficulty to track the target position successively because of using only image processing. So we developed the system to track the motion for a non-invasive respiratory gated system to accurately find the dynamic position of internal structures such as the diaphragm and tumor. The respiratory organ motion tracking apparatus consists of an image capture board, a fluoroscopy system and a processing computer. After the image board grabs the motion of internal anatomy through the fluoroscopy system, the computer acquires the organ motion tracking data by image processing without any additional physical markers. The patients breathe freely without any forced breath control and coaching, when this experiment was performed. The developed pattern-recognition software could extract the target motion signal in real-time from the acquired fluoroscopic images. The range of mean deviations between the real and acquired target positions was measured for some sample structures in an anatomical model phantom. The mean and max deviation between the real and acquired positions were less than 1mm and 2mm respectively with the standardized movement using a moving stage and an anatomical model phantom. Under the real human body, the mean and maximum distance of the peak to trough was measured 23.5mm and 55.1mm respectively for 13 patients' diaphragm motion. The acquired respiration profile showed that human expiration period was longer than the inspiration period. The above results could be applied to respiratory-gated radiotherapy.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.1131-1135
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 고정시킨 평면거울을 바라보는 단일 카메라에서 얻어진 영상을 이용하여 훈련자 양 하지의 자세를 3차원으로 추정하는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해, 카메라 입력영상으로부터 평면거울에 부착된 네 개의 적외선 마커를 탐색하여 단일 카메라의 자세를 추정한다. 추정된 카메라 자세를 통해 거울평면을 기준으로 하는 훈련공간을 정의하고, 압력 센서를 사용하여 공간 내의 훈련자의 양 하지 위치를 측정한다. 양 하지의 마커는 직접적으로, 또는 거울을 통해 카메라 영상으로 투영되고, 정의된 훈련 공간에서 3차원 위치로 변환된다. 변환된 마커들의 3차원 위치관계에 의해 최종적으로 양 하지의 자세를 얻고 연속적인 움직임에 대해 운동 상태를 추정한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.5512-5526
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• 2019

In sports video games, especially ball games, motion capture techniques are used to reproduce the ball-driven performances. The amount of motion data needed to create different situations in which athletes exchange balls is bound to increase exponentially with resolution. This paper proposes how avatars in virtual worlds can not only imitate professional athletes in ball games, but also create and edit their actions effectively. First, various ball-handling movements are recorded using motion sensors. We do not really have to control an actual ball; imitating the motions is enough. Next, motion is created by specifying what to pass the ball through, and then making motion to handle the ball in front of the motion sensor. The ball's occupant then passes the ball to the user-specified target through a motion that imitates the user's, and the process is repeated. The method proposed can be used as a convenient user interface for motion based games for players who handle balls.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제63권6호
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• pp.771-777
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• 2017

The applications of smartphones or other portable smart devices have dramatically changed people's lifestyle. Researchers have been investigating useage of smartphones for structural health monitoring, earthquake monitoring, vibration measurement and human posture recognition. Their results indicate a great potential of smartphones for measuring pedestrian-induced loads like walking, jumping and bouncing. Smartphone can catch the device's motion trail, which provides with a new method for pedestrain load measurement. Therefore, this study carried out a series of experiments to verify the application of the smartphone for measuring human-induced load. Shaking table tests were first conducted in order to compare the smartphones' measurements with the real input signals in both time and frequency domains. It is found that selected smartphones have a satisfied accuracy when measuring harmonic signals of low frequencies. Then, motion capture technology in conjunction with force plates were adopted in the second-stage experiment. The smartphone is used to record the acceleration of center-of-mass of a person. The human-induced loads are then reconstructed by a biomechanical model. Experimental results demonstrate that the loads measured by smartphone are good for bouncing and jumping, and reasonable for walking.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.583-595
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• 2015

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of lower limb joint angles computed with the software ImageJ during jumping movements. Background: Kinematics is the study of bodies in motion without regard to the forces or torques that may produce the motion. The most common method for collecting motion data uses an imaging and motion-caption system to record the 2D or 3D coordinates of markers attached to a moving object, followed by manual or automatic digitizing software. Above all, passive optical motion capture systems (e.g. Vicon system) have been regarded as the gold standards for collecting motion data. On the other hand, ImageJ is used widely for an image analysis as free software, and can collect the 2D coordinates of markers. Although much research has been carried out into the utilizations of the ImageJ software, little is known about their reliability. Method: Seven healthy female students participated as the subject in this study. Seventeen reflective markers were attached on the right and left lower limbs to measure two and three-dimensional joint angular motions. Jump performance was recorded by ten-vicon camera systems (250Hz) and one digital video camera (240Hz). The joint angles of the ankle and knee joints were calculated using 2D (ImageJ) and 3D (Vicon-MX) motion data, respectively. Results: Pearson's correlation coefficients between the two methods were calculated, and significance tests were conducted (${\alpha}=1%$). Correlation coefficients between the two were over 0.98. In Vicon-MX and ImageJ, there is no systematic error by examination of the validity using the Bland-Altman method, and all data are in the 95% limits of agreement. Conclusion: In this study, correlation coefficients are generally high, and the regression line is near the identical line. Therefore, it is considered that motion analysis using ImageJ is a useful tool for evaluation of human movements in various research areas. Application: This result can be utilized as a practical tool to analyze human performance in various fields.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.399-409
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• 2019

Three-dimensional (3D) human pose reconstruction from single-view image is a difficult and challenging topic. Existing approaches mostly process frame-by-frame independently while inter-frames are highly correlated in a sequence. In contrast, we introduce a novel spatial-temporal 3D human pose reconstruction framework that leverages both intra and inter-frame relationships in consecutive 2D pose sequences. Orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm, pre-trained pose-angle limits and temporal models have been implemented. Several quantitative comparisons between our proposed framework and recent works have been studied on CMU motion capture dataset and Vietnamese traditional dance sequences. Our framework outperforms others by 10% lower of Euclidean reconstruction error and more robust against Gaussian noise. Additionally, it is also important to mention that our reconstructed 3D pose sequences are more natural and smoother than others.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.117-125
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• 2015

앉아있는 시간이 긴 현대인들에게 바른 자세를 유지하도록 하는 것은 중요하다. 자세 교정을 위한 치료는 많은 시간과 비용이 소요되며, 전문의의 지속적인 관찰이 필요하다. 그러므로 사용자 스스로 자신의 자세를 판단하고 교정하기 위한 시스템이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 사용자의 자세 데이터를 취득하여 취득된 자세가 정상자세인지 비정상자세인지 판단한다. 사용자의 자세 데이터 취득을 위해 관성 센서를 이용한 4개 관절 기반 모션캡쳐 시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템을 통해 대상자의 자세 데이터를 취득하고, 취득한 데이터를 기반으로 특징을 추출하여 DB를 구축한다. 구축한 DB를 K-means 클러스터링 알고리즘을 이용하여 자세 학습을 수행한 후, 정상자세와 비정상자세를 분류한다. 관절의 회전각도, 위치정보, 분석정보를 이용하여 자세분류를 수행한 결과, 정상자세 판단 성공률은 99.79%로 나타났다. 이 결과로 미루어 4개 관절에 대한 특징을 이용하여 사용자의 자세를 판단 가능하며, 향후 척추질환 예방 시스템에 적용하여 사용자의 자세를 교정하는 데 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제33권1_2호
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• pp.119-127
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• 2006

가상환경에서의 실시간 캐릭터 애니메이션은 컴퓨터 게임 및 가상현실 분야에서 중요한 문제이다. 최근에는 캐릭터 애니메이션의 사실성을 높이기 위해 대규모 동작 캡쳐 데이타를 활용하고 있다. 그러나 거대하고 복잡한 가상환경을 만들기 위해서는 현실 환경에서 동작을 캡쳐하고 이를 넓은 가상환경에 적용해야하는 어려움이 따른다. 본 논문에서는 애니메이션 캐릭터가 몇 가지 빌딩 블록(building block)들로 건설된 넓은 가상공간에서 자유롭게 활동하게 하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 빌딩 블록들은 반복적인 형태로 배열되어 더 큰 환경을 생성할 수 있다. 이러한 각각의 블록들을 모션 패치(motion patch)라고 부른다. 모션 패치는 해당 블록 내부에서 캐릭터가 수행할 수 있는 동작들에 대한 정보를 가지고 있다. 본 논문은 다수의 캐릭터가 방대하고 복잡한 가상환경 속에서 실시간으로 애니메이션되고 제어되는 예제들을 통해 이 논문에서 제시하는 방법이 다양한 목적에 유용하게 사용될 수 있음을 보인다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.155-165
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• 2014

Objective: The aim of this study is to develop an office chair enabling to keep working at reclined sitting posture. Background: Sedentary workers are supposed to change the posture frequently during long hours of sitting. A reclined sitting position has been recommended to reduce disc pressure. But slumped sitting posture caused by the buttock sliding forward without any adjustment of back reclining is commonly observed. The worker seems to have tendency to change the sitting posture maintaining working condition. We assumed the reason to be their hands movement away from the working space when tilting backward. Method: Slide mechanism allowing seat to move forward was designed to maintain the hand position in working space during reclining. A prototype was manufactured and tilting motion was analyzed using motion capture system. Four experiment chairs were tested including the manufactured prototype chair and three other commercial chairs. Results: A backward movements of the hand position were 13.0mm, 101.7mm, 156.1mm and 139.3mm at the prototype chair, compared to chair B, chair C and chair D, respectively. And the movement was remarkably small at the prototype chair. Conclusion: The developed seat sliding chair allows back tilting maintaining hand position at working space. We expect the user tilting back more often than normal tilting chair during seated work. But further investigation is required to figure out the effectiveness of the developed chair using prolonged working hours. Application: The developed office chair directly affects commercialization.