• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• v.15 no.sup1
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• pp.110-121
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• 2021

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases were first reported in December 2019, in China, and an increasing number of cases have since been detected all over the world. The purpose of this study was to collect significant news media reports on food services during the COVID-19 crisis and identify public communication and significant concerns regarding COVID-19 for suggesting future directions for the food industry and services. SUBJECTS/METHODS: News articles pertaining to food services were extracted from the home pages of major news media websites such as BBC, CNN, and Fox News between March 2020 and February 2021. The retrieved data was sorted and analyzed using Python software. RESULTS: The results of text analytics were presented in the format of the topic label and category for individual topics. The food and health category presented the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and health, such as an increase in delivery services. The policy category was indicative of a change in government policy. The lifestyle change category addressed topics such as an increase in social media usage. CONCLUSIONS: This study is the first to analyze major news media (i.e., BBC, CNN, and Fox News) data related to food services in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Text analytics research on the food services domain revealed different categories such as food and health, policy, and lifestyle change. Therefore, this study contributes to the body of knowledge on food services research, through the use of text analytics to elicit findings from media sources.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.21-41
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• 2019

Thanks to the rapid development of information technologies, the data available on Internet have grown rapidly. In this era of big data, many studies have attempted to offer insights and express the effects of data analysis. In the tourism and hospitality industry, many firms and studies in the era of big data have paid attention to online reviews on social media because of their large influence over customers. As tourism is an information-intensive industry, the effect of these information networks on social media platforms is more remarkable compared to any other types of media. However, there are some limitations to the improvements in service quality that can be made based on opinions on social media platforms. Users on social media platforms represent their opinions as text, images, and so on. Raw data sets from these reviews are unstructured. Moreover, these data sets are too big to extract new information and hidden knowledge by human competences. To use them for business intelligence and analytics applications, proper big data techniques like Natural Language Processing and data mining techniques are needed. This study suggests an analytical approach to directly yield insights from these reviews to improve the service quality of hotels. Our proposed approach consists of topic mining to extract topics contained in the reviews and the decision tree modeling to explain the relationship between topics and ratings. Topic mining refers to a method for finding a group of words from a collection of documents that represents a document. Among several topic mining methods, we adopted the Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm, which is considered as the most universal algorithm. However, LDA is not enough to find insights that can improve service quality because it cannot find the relationship between topics and ratings. To overcome this limitation, we also use the Classification and Regression Tree method, which is a kind of decision tree technique. Through the CART method, we can find what topics are related to positive or negative ratings of a hotel and visualize the results. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the representation of an analytical approach for the improvement of hotel service quality from unstructured review data sets. Through experiments for four hotels in Hong Kong, we can find the strengths and weaknesses of services for each hotel and suggest improvements to aid in customer satisfaction. Especially from positive reviews, we find what these hotels should maintain for service quality. For example, compared with the other hotels, a hotel has a good location and room condition which are extracted from positive reviews for it. In contrast, we also find what they should modify in their services from negative reviews. For example, a hotel should improve room condition related to soundproof. These results mean that our approach is useful in finding some insights for the service quality of hotels. That is, from the enormous size of review data, our approach can provide practical suggestions for hotel managers to improve their service quality. In the past, studies for improving service quality relied on surveys or interviews of customers. However, these methods are often costly and time consuming and the results may be biased by biased sampling or untrustworthy answers. The proposed approach directly obtains honest feedback from customers' online reviews and draws some insights through a type of big data analysis. So it will be a more useful tool to overcome the limitations of surveys or interviews. Moreover, our approach easily obtains the service quality information of other hotels or services in the tourism industry because it needs only open online reviews and ratings as input data. Furthermore, the performance of our approach will be better if other structured and unstructured data sources are added.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.169-172
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 기존의 ISODATA 알고리즘을 네트워크 공격탐지에 더욱 적합하도록 개선하여 공격을 탐지하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 수많은 인터넷상의 트래픽 정보들을 군집화하여 유사도를 비교하는 방법을 통해 공격을 판단한다. 기본적인 절차는 송신자 IP와 Port, 수신자 IP와 Port 정보를 이용하여 송신자와 수신자 사이의 관계를 분석하고 그 특징 값들을 이용하여 개선된 군집화 알고리즘을 이용하여 군집화를 수행한다. 그리고 얻어진 패턴의 특징값을 인공신경망에 학습하여 공격유형을 분류하고 탐지하도록 한다. 기존의 공격탐지 방법과 비교했을 때, 계산양이 적고 속도가 빠르다는 장점이 있으며 제안하는 방법의 우수성을 실험을 통해 증명하였다.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.88-92
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• 2016

This paper proposes a method of forecasting the computer technology development direction. Most computer technology researches in Korea are developed from hot research issues. This approach to take research topics mostly produces less valuable results. In order to choose more valuable research topics, researchers should company with the technology development trends. This paper proposes a way to forecast the computer technologies on the way to the future. It analyzes the development history of programming languages, and forecasts future directions as extensions of the history.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.49-55
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• 2019

최근 수년간 급속도로 발전한 정보통신(ICT) 및 인공지능(AI) 관련 기술은 사회전반에 걸쳐 모든 산업영역에 변화의 바람을 불러일으키고 있다. 교통부문에서도 이러한 기술의 융 복합을 통해 교통체계의 효율성과 안전성을 향상시키기 위한 노력이 자율주행의 기술발전으로 나타나고 있다. 자율주행은 그동안 인간이 운전해오던 자동차 중심의 교통체계에 혁신적인 변화의 동인이 될 것으로 전망된다. 개인 승용차 시장에 자율주행자동차의 등장과 버스, 택시 등 대중교통과 공유교통차량의 대중교통 기능 적용, 그리고 트럭 및 대형버스 등 상용차의 군집주행기술 도입 등 다양한 분야에서 산업화가 진행되고 있는 것이 그 이유다. 이로 인해 시민들의 일상생활에서 가장 중요한 부분을 차지하는 이동성(Mobility)을 제공하는 서비스에 상당한 영향을 줄 것으로 예측되고 있다. 본 고는 자율주행이 가져올 미래 교통체계의 변화로 대변되는 스마트 모빌리티에 대한 기술과 서비스 방향에 대해 진단하고, 효율적인 산업화를 위한 방안을 제시한다.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.51-63
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• 2022

Metaverse provides a simulated environment where a large number of users can participate in various activities. In order for Metaverse to be sustainable, it is necessary to study ethics that can be applied to a Metaverse service platform. In this paper, Metaverse ethics and the rules for applying to the platform are explored. And, in order to judge the ethicality of avatar actions in social Metaverse, the identity, interaction, and relationship of an avatar are investigated. Then, an action-based audit approach to avatar interactions (e.g., dialogues, gestures, facial expressions) is introduced in two cases that an avatar enters a digital world and that an avatar requests the auditing to subjects, e.g., avatars controlled by human users, artificial intelligence (AI) avatars (e.g., as conversational bots), and virtual objects. Pseudocodes for performing the two cases in a system are presented and they are examined based on the description of the avatars' actions.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.112-119
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• 2023

Shrimp farming has been becoming a new source of income for fishermen in South Korea. It is often necessary for fishers to measure the size of the shrimp for the purpose to understand the growth rate of the shrimp and to determine the amount of food put into the breeding pond. Traditional methods rely on humans, which has huge time and labor costs. This paper proposes a deep learning-based method for calculating the size of shrimps automatically. Firstly, we use fine-tuning techniques to update the Mask RCNN model with our farm data, enabling it to segment shrimps and generate shrimp masks. We then use skeletonizing method and maximum inscribed circle to calculate the length and width of shrimp, respectively. Our method is simple yet effective, and most importantly, it requires a small hardware resource and is easy to deploy to shrimp farms.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.765-767
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 웹캠을 이용하여 전시관의 관람객을 추적하고, 그 관람객들의 속도를 추정하여 전시품 앞에서 속도가 줄어드는 것을 이용하여 관심도의 레벨을 추정하는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안 시스템은 관심 관람객의 특성을 분석하기 위하여, 일정 크기의 전시 부스에 설치하는 것을 가정하였다. 제안 시스템은 관찰영역에 진입하는 관객을 인식하고, 관객의 움직이는 속도를 예측하며, 관객의 속도가 관찰 영역내에서 줄어들면서 멈춤 동작을 하는 것을 인식하여 관람객의 관심레벨을 조정하도록 하였다. 뎁스 카메라를 이용하지 않고 저가의 웹캠을 이용하므로 전시관에 쉽게 설치하여 적용할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.07a
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• pp.45-46
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• 2023

In order to improve and promote immersive learning experiences for English as a Second Language (ESL) students, the deployment of a YOLOv5 model for object identification in videos is proposed. The procedure includes collecting annotated datasets, preparing the data, and then fine-tuning a model using the YOLOv5 framework. The study's major objective is to integrate a well-trained model into ESL instruction in order to analyze the effectiveness of AI application in the field.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.07a
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• pp.453-454
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• 2023

현재 선천적인 청각장애인이나 언어 장애가 있는 사람은 다른 사람과의 대화에 많은 불편을 겪고 있다. 매장을 이용하기 어려움은 물론 언어전달 능력이 떨어지기 때문에 간단한 의사소통을 통한 서로 간의 교류 또한 불편함을 감수해야 한다. 현재는 따로 디스플레이가 내장된 장치를 이용하여 지정된 장소에서 수화를 번역해야 하는 불편함을 해당 문제 해결을 위해 본 연구에서는 딥러닝을 적용하여 수화를 인식하고 번역하여 디스플레이에 텍스트를 출력해주는 시스템을 개발하였다. AI 프레임워크 MediaPipe와 SVM 알고리즘을 라즈베리파이에 적용하여 구현하였다. 개발한 시스템은 제스처에 대한 번역 결과를 제공한다. 기존의 지정된 장소가 아닌 대화가 필요한 모든 장소에서 번역이 가능하도록 개선하여 청각장애인과 언어장애가 있는 사람들과 소통의 불편함을 줄일 수 있을 것으로 기대할 수 있다.