• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1225-1235
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• 2016

This paper presents a method for computer-assisted slide presentation using vision-based gesture recognition. The proposed method consists of a sequence of steps, first detecting a hand in the scene of projector beam, then estimating the smooth trajectory of a hand or a pointing finger using Kalman Filter, and finally interfacing to an application system. Additional slide navigation control includes moving back and forth the pages of the presentation. The proposed method is to help speakers for an effective presentation with natural improved interaction with the computer. In particular, the proposed method of using finger pointing is believed to be more effective than using a laser pointer since the hand, the pointing or finger are more visible and thus can better grab the attention of the audience.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.617-620
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• 2010

최근 고성능 모바일 단말기와 다양한 컨텐츠가 등장하면서 유비쿼터스 환경에서의 사용자 인터페이스에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 특히 모바일 프로젝터는 장소의 제한을 받지 않고 큰 화면을 다른 사람과 공유할 수 있는 장점이 있는 반면에 단말기를 직접 제어해야 하는 불편함이 있다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 환경에서 카메라를 통해 입력된 영상 정보만으로 사용자가 스크린에 비추는 레이저 포인터를 실시간으로 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 색상 감지와 움직임 감지로 나뉜다. 단일 프레임에서 영상 성분의 평균을 이용한 조건을 검사하여 레이저 포인터 색상 영역을 검출하고, 인접한 프레임과 현재 프레임과의 차를 구하며 그 차이가 임계값보다 큰 영역을 움직임 영역으로 검출한다. 마지막으로 색상 검출 영역과 움직임 검출 영역을 동시에 만족하는 영역을 최종적으로 레이저 포인터 영역으로 인식한다. 본 기법은 영상 정보만 사용하기 때문에 센서나 불필요한 장비를 착용할 필요가 없고 영상 성분 평균을 이용하므로 프로젝터 성능에 따른 조도의 변화에 강건하여 효과적인 레이저 포인터 검출이 가능하다. 실험결과는 주변 조명의 밝기에 따라 차이가 있지만 대부분 80% 이상의 검출률과 16% 미만의 오검출률의 성능으로 나타났고, 이 같은 결과는 사용자의 주관적인 만족을 보장하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.422-428
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• 2013

Recently, many unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) studies have focused on small UAVs, because they are cost effective and suitable in dangerous indoor environments where human entry is limited. Map building through distance measurement is a key technology for the autonomous flight of small UAVs. In many researches for unmanned systems, distance could be measured by using laser range finders or stereo vision sensors. Even though a laser range finder provides accurate distance measurements, it has a disadvantage of high cost. Calculating the distance using a stereo vision sensor is straightforward. However, the sensor is large and heavy, which is not suitable for small UAVs with limited payload. This paper suggests a low-cost distance measurement system using a laser pointer and a monocular vision sensor. A method to measure distance using the suggested system is explained and some experiments on map building are conducted with these distance measurements. The experimental results are compared to the actual data and the reliability of the suggested system is verified.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.15-23
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• 2015

PURPOSE: We aims to promote the development of proprioception measurement using smartphones, goniometers, and laser pointers as compared to the conventional use of electrogoniometer measurement. METHODS: Measurements using an electrogoniometer were previously proved to be reliabile and valid. Among E-university students, 20 who had no fracture, operation history, or inflammatory arthritis were examined. These subjects had not performed regular exercise in the past 3 months. Proprioception measurements were performed using four different measurement tools, three times per day, for test-retest analysis. RESULTS: No notable test-retest differences were noted for any of the measurement methods (P>0.05). With regard to the test-retest reliability for each measurement method, we observed that the readings from both the electrogoniometer and smartphone have high reliability (ICC>0.80), whereas the readings from the laser pointer have moderate reliability (ICC>0.60). When assessing the concurrent validity between electrogoniometers with individual measurements, we did not observe any notable difference between the smartphone and electrogoniometer (P>0.05) and these tools in fact showed high correlation (r>0.60, P<0.05) and a moderate reliability (ICC>0.60). Moreover, there was no notable difference in between electrogoniometers and laser pointers (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: CONCLUSION: The findings of this suggested that proprioception can be measured by using smart-phones, and proved that this method has sufficient credibility. Moreover, we noted that the concurrent validity with smartphones was high in comparison with the conventional electrogoniometer, which also indicates the validity and credibility. Based on these findings, we conclude that the measurement of proprioception by using a smartphone can be widely adopted.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.207-219
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• 2023

Purpose : This study was conducted to investigate the changes in trunk movement and ground reaction during sit to stand motion using visual feedback. Methods : Fifteen adults (average age: 23.53±1.77 years) participated in this study. An infrared reflective marker was attached to the body each participant for motion analysis, and the participants performed sit to stand motion while wearing a hat attached with a laser pointer, which provided visual feedback. First, the sit to stand action was repeated thrice without obtaining any visual feedback, followed by a three minute break. Next, the laser pointers attached to hats were irradiated on a whiteboard, located at a distance of 5 m in front of the chairs, on which the participants sat; a baseline was set, and the participants performed stand up movements three times under this condition. A visual feedback was provided to the participants to prevent the laser pointers from crossing the set baseline. During each stand-up movement, the position of the reflective marker attached to the subject's body was recorded in real time using an infrared camera for motion analysis. The trunk movement and ground reaction force were extracted through recorded data and analyzed according to the presence or absence of visual feedback. Results : The results indicated that in the presence of a visual feedback during the sit-to-stand movements, the range of motion of the trunk and hip joints decreased, whereas that of the knee and ankle joints increased in the sagittal plane. The rotation angle of the trunk in the horizontal plane decreased. The left and right movement speed of the center of pressure increased, the pressing force decreased, and the forward and backward movement speed of the trunk decreased. Conclusion : The results suggest that the efficiency and stability of the stand up movement of a body increase when a visual feedback is provided.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.536-539
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• 2003

This paper presents a study of position tracing system for Underwater Vehicle Robots(UVR) that is inspecting an atomic furnace. This system development is the basic research for the purpose of position estimation of UVR and preventing that UVR crash into the wall of an atomic furnace. For this purpose, Pan/Tilt Unit that is attached Laser is pointing PSD(Position Sensitive Detector) Sensor which is stuck to the upper side of UVR. Through this action, we can find the Position of UVR. In this paper, we construct the system for aiming the laser pointer at PSD Sensor using pan/tilt and study the optimum algorithm for finding the optional position that is located at the space which is pointable area by Laser device.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1994-1998
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• 2005

Characteristic analysis of the depth measurement system with a laser, a camera and a rotating mirror has been done and the parameter calibration technique for it has been proposed. In the proposed depth measurement system, the laser beam is reflected to the object by the rotating mirror and again the position of the laser beam is observed through the same mirror by the camera. The depth of the object pointed by the laser beam is computed depending on the pixel position on the CCD. There involved several number of internal and external parameters such as inter-pixel distance, focal length, position and orientation of the system components in the depth measurement error. In this paper, it is shown through the error sensitivity analysis of the parameters that the most important parameters in the sense of error sources are the angle of the laser beam and the inter pixel distance. The calibration techniques to minimize the effect of such major parameters are proposed.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.161-167
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• 2008

This article describes the methods of a decision of the location which user points to move by an optical device like a laser pointer and a moving to that location. Using a conic mirror and CCD camera sensor, a robot observes a spot of user wanted point among an initiative, computes the location and azimuth and moves to that position. This system offers the brief data to a processor with simple devices. In these reason, we can reduce the time of a calculation to process of images and find the target by user point for carrying a robot. User points a laser spot on a point to be moved so that this sensor system in the robot, detecting the laser spot point with a conic mirror, laid on the robot, showing a camera. The camera is attached on the robot upper body and fixed parallel to the ground and the conic mirror.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.42-49
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• 2015

In laser pointer interaction systems, laser spot detection is one of the most important technologies, and most of the challenges in this area are related to the varying backgrounds, and the real-time performance of the interaction system. In this paper, we present a robust dictionary construction and update algorithm based on a sparse model of background subtraction. In order to control dynamic backgrounds, first, we determine whether there is a change in the backgrounds; if this is true, the new background can be directly added to the dictionary configurations; otherwise, we run an online cumulative average on the backgrounds to update the dictionary. The proposed dictionary construction and update algorithm for laser spot detection, is robust to the varying backgrounds and noises, and can be implemented in real time. A large number of experimental results have confirmed the superior performance of the proposed method in terms of the detection error and real-time implementation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.84.1-84
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• 2002

A Human-Robot-Interface(HRI) for the disabled Person is developed. $\textbullet$ HRI consists of the laser pointer '||'&'||' USB camera and pressure sensor. $\textbullet$ HRI makes three degree of freedom. $\textbullet$ Three robot position control method with the Interface is presented. $\textbullet$ Experimental results show that user control the 6 DOF robot with the interface and control method.