• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.64-71
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential of immersive environments in the design domain by analyzing students' design process in immersive environments from cognitive and experiential aspects. To do this, we reviewed major concepts and theories such as users' immersion, participation, presence, and awareness and developed a comprehensive conceptual framework of immersive shared environments. In three different visualization systems of HIVE, teams consisting two students were assigned to design tasks and the design process was analyzed by a customized framework. The characteristics of the immersive environment related to the performance of the design task were different from those of the previous studies. The perception of the relationship between the spaces is very important, and the perception of the surrounding objects is interested in the shape or the material such as whether the object is flat or inclined. Also, it is found that the multi-technology of immersive environments is very useful for creative collaboration. In the future, a more comprehensive analysis of the effects on design decisions in a more diverse visual interface condition and the effects on more diverse design areas should be added.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2019

가상 및 증강현실과 같은 확장현실(XR: Extended Reality)은 몰입형 데이터 시각화 및 분석을 위한 거대한 잠재력을 가지고 있다. 확장현실에서 사용자는 3차원 가상 공간을 활용하여 데이터 및 여러 사용자와 사실적으로 상호 작용할 수 있으므로 보다 직관적인 데이터 분석이 가능하다. 그러나 확장현실의 장점을 제대로 활용하기 위한 시각화를 생성하는 것은 복잡한 프로그래밍이 필요하기 때문에 상당히 어려운 일이다. 본 논문에서는 손 제스처만으로 XR을 위한 시각화 전 과정을 수행하고, 모든 3차원 공간을 활용할 수 있는 가젯암(Gadget Arms) 시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템에서 분석가는 데스크탑 기반 환경이나 복잡한 프로그래밍을 사용할 필요 없이 XR 기기를 착용한 상태에서 직관적으로 전체 시각화 공간을 디자인할 수 있으며, 가상의 손을 임의의 3차원 공간에 자유자재로 위치시킬 수 있는 인터랙션을 통해 거대한 3차원 공간을 효과적으로 활용할 수 있다. 우리는 사용자 연구를 통해 제안된 시스템이 시각화 제작과 공간 활용의 사용성을 크게 향상시시키는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.397-408
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• 2016

VR and AR are widely used in many applications to provide more immersive visualization and natural interaction for learning and experiencing virtual but realistic tasks. Energy saving is considered as one of the most important issues throughout the world in order to overcome global warming and energy crisis. In particular, the awareness of home energy saving is regarded as a first step to deal with this issue. In this paper, we suggest a new learning environment using virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) for home energy saving experience. In particular, it presents a comparative study of the user experience in home energy awareness using immersive virtual reality and mobile augmented reality. The first person user experience using immersive VR wearing head mounted display (HMD) and the third person user experience using mobile AR are implemented and systematically compared with each other in terms of the learning effect of energy saving and qualitative usability. Implementation results will be given to show the advantage and effectiveness of the proposed approach.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.231-240
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• 2006

Immersive virtual reality (VR) for the manufacturing planning helps to shorten the planning times as well as to improve the quality of planning results. However, VR equipment is expensive, both in terms of development efforts and device. Engineers also spend time to manually repair erroneous 3-D shape because of imperfect translation between 3-D engineering CAD model and VR system format. In this paper a method is proposed to link 3-D engineering CAD model to a multichannel visualization system with PC clusters. The multichannel visualization module enables distributed computing for PC clusters, which can reduce the cost of VR experience while offering high performance. Each PC in a cluster renders a particular viewpoint of a scene. Scenes are synchronized by reading parameters from the master scene control module and passing them to client scenes.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.117-120
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• 2004

몰입형 가상현실 시스템은 3차원 탄성파, 검층자료, 해석단면 등 다양한 지하정보를 3차원 공간에 시각화 하고 분석하는데 효과적이다. 이러한 시스템은 석유나 가스 탐사에 중요한 도구로서 사용될 수 있지만, 고가의 제작비용으로 인해 특수한 분야에만 제한적으로 사용되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 몰입감을 극대화 시킬 수 있는 가상현실 시스템인 CAVE(Cave Automatic Virtual Environment)를 일반 PC와 프로젝터를 이용하여 적은 비용으로 구축한 사례를 제시한다.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.56-61
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• 2006

As the size and dimension of target problems in the field of computational engineering including CFD gets bigger and higher, it is needed to have more efficient and flexible data visualization environment in terms of software and hardware. Even though it is still manageable to use a mouse in controlling 3-dimensional data visualization, it would be beneficial to use 3-D input device for 3-D visualization. 'Data Glove' is one of the best 3-D input devices, because human hands are best tools for understanding 3-D space and manipulating 3-D objects. Signals coming from 'Data Glove' are analog and very sensitive to finger motions, therefore signal filtering using a digital filter is applied. This paper describes our experience and benefits of using data gloves in controlling 3-dimensional postprocessing softwares.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.277-284
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• 2011

In tangible augmented reality (AR) environments for virtual prototyping, the user interacts with virtual products by manipulating tangible objects with his or her hands, but the user often encounter awkward situations in which his or her hands are occluded by augmented virtual objects, which reduces both immersion and ease of interaction. In this paper, we present how to resolve such hand region occlusion in order to enhance natural interaction and immersive visualization. In the AR environment considered, we use two types (product-type and pointer-type) of tangible objects for tangible user interaction with a virtual product of interest. Holding the tangible objects with his or her hands, the user can create input events by touching specified regions of the product-type tangible object with the pointer-type tangible object. We developed a method for resolving hand region occlusion frequently arising during such user interaction, It first detect hand region in a real image and refines the rendered image of the virtual object by subtracting the hand region from the rendered image, Then, it superimposes the refined image onto the real image to obtain an image in which the occlusion is resolved. Incorporated into tangible AR interaction for virtual prototyping of handheld products such as cellular phones and MP3 players, the method has been found by a preliminary user study that it is not only useful to improve natural interaction and immersive visualization of virtual products, but also helpful for making the users experience the products' shapes and functions better.

• Journal of Ubiquitous Convergence Technology
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a virtual tourist system with realtime 3D visualization and the assistance of context information service. Our system enables a visitor to take a discovering tour on a virtual environment from a remote client by following navigator or by self-navigating. During the tour, the system provides immersive 3D graphics contents while supporting relevant information to the visitors corresponding to their positions in the virtual environment. When the visitors interact with interested objects, the context information service will also support introduction information for presenting about the objects. The introduction information based on text format is represented by a comfortable way-audio conversion to visitors in different languages depended on their preferences using TTS(Text-To-Speak) tool.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송∙미디어공학회 2018년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.45-46
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• 2018

This paper focuses on human activities monitoring problem using onboard smartphone sensors as data generator. Monitoring such activities can be very important to detect anomalies and prevent disease from patients. Machine learning (ML) algorithms appear to be ideal approaches to use for processing data from smartphone to get sense of how to classify human activities. ML algorithms depend on quality, the quantity and even more important, the properties or features, that can be learnt from data. This paper proposes a mobile virtual reality visualization system that helps to view data representation in a very immersive way so that its quality and discriminative characteristics may be evaluated and improved. The proposed system comes as well with a handy data collecting application that can be accessed directly by the VR visualization part.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.51-61
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• 2022

In this paper, we introduced a novel voxel-wise UV parameterization and view-dependent texture synthesis for the immersive rendering of a truncated signed distance field (TSDF) scene model. The proposed UV parameterization delegates a precomputed UV map to each voxel using the UV map lookup table and consequently, enabling efficient and high-quality texture mapping without a complex process. By leveraging the convenient UV parameterization, our view-dependent texture synthesis method extracts a set of local texture maps for each voxel from the multiview color images and separates them into a single view-independent diffuse map and a set of weight coefficients for an orthogonal specular map basis. Furthermore, the view-dependent specular maps for an arbitrary view are estimated by combining the specular weights of each source view using the location of the arbitrary and source viewpoints to generate the view-dependent textures for arbitrary views. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively synthesizes texture for an arbitrary view, thereby enabling the visualization of view-dependent effects, such as specularity and mirror reflection.