• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.126-136
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• 2007

Teleconferences have been used in business sectors to reduce traveling costs. Traditionally, specialized telephones that enabled multiparty conversations were used. With the introduction of high speed networks, we now have high definition videos that add more realism in the presence of counterparts who could be thousands of miles away. This paper presents a new technology that adds even more realism by telecommunicating with hand gestures. This technology is part of a teleconference system named SMS (Smart Meeting Space). In SMS, a person can use hand gestures to manipulate meeting data that could be in the form of text, audio, video or 3D shapes. Fer detecting hand gestures, a machine learning algorithm called SVM (Support Vector Machine) has been used. For the prototype system, a 3D interaction environment has been implemented with $OpenGL^{TM}$, where a 3D human skull model can be grasped and moved in 6-DOF during a remote conversation between distant persons.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.832-833
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• 2016

대부분의 가상 과학 실험 어플리케이션은 참여 인원이 한 명으로 제한된다. 이로 인해 다중 사용자 간의 상호작용을 기반으로 하는 콘텐츠 제작이 어려웠다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 다중 사용자 간의 상호작용이 가능한 가상 과학 실험을 위한 상호작용 엔진을 설계하고 이를 활용하여 가상의 과학 실험 어플리케이션 프로토타입을 구현하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.737-740
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• 2003

개인용 컴퓨터의 성능 및 네트워크 속도가 향상됨에 따라 서로 다른 곳에 위치한 다수의 사용자가 동일한 가상 환경을 공유하면서 협업할 수 있도록 해 주는 가상협업환경을 구축하고자 하는 시도가 늘고 있다. 그러나 기존에는 가상협업환경 자체를 구축하기 위한 연구나 단일 시스템에서 사용자와 가상 객체간의 상호작용을 지원해 줄 수 있는 단일 사용자 인터랙션에 관한 연구가 주를 이루었다. 본 논문에서는 가상협업환경을 보다 효율적으로 이용하기 위하여 다수의 사용자가 동일한 가상 환경에서 인터랙션 할 수 있는 방안을 제시하고 있다. 이를 위해 네트워크로 연결된 공유가상 환경에서 한 사용자가 발생시키는 이벤트를 상대방의 가상 환경에서도 반영할 수 있도록 해주는 PC 기반 가상 환경을 구축하였다. 구축된 가상 환경에는 다양한 하이라이트 색을 이용하여 상대방의 행위를 알 수 있는 Awareness 기능 및 동일 가상 객체를 조작하고자 할 때 이를 조정하는 Priority 기능을 포함하고 있다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.104-112
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• 2014

With recent development of virtual reality technology, coupled with the growth of the marine industry, virtual underwater simulation systems are under development in various studies, for educational purposes and to simulate virtual reality experiences. Current literature indicates many underwater simulation systems to date have focused on the quality of visual stimulus delivered through three-dimensional graphics user interface, limiting the reality of the experience. In order to improve the quality of the reality delivered by such virtual simulations, it is crucial to develop multi-sensory technology rather than focus on the conventional audio-visual interaction, which limits experiencer from the sense of underwater immersion and existence within the simulation. This work proposes the immersive multi-sensory effector system, delivering the users with a more realistic underwater experience. The sense of reality perceived was evaluated, as the main factor of the virtual reality system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1938-1943
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• 2005

Network human-robot interface is an important research topic. In home application, users access the robotic system directly via voice, gestures or through the network. Users explore a system by using the services provided by this system and to some extend users are enable to participate in a service as partners. A service may be provided by a robot, a group of robots or robots and other network connected systems (distributed sensors, information systems, etc). All these services are done in the network environment, where uncertainty such as the unstable network connection, the availability of the partners in a service, exists. Moreover, these services are controlled by several users, accessing at different time by different methods. Our research aimed at solving this problem to provide a high available level, flexible coordination system. In this paper, a multi-agent framework is proposed. This framework is validated by using our new concept of slave agents, a responsive multi-agent environment, a virtual directory facilitator (VDF), and a task allocation system using contract net protocol. Our system uses a mixed model between distributed and centralized model. It uses a centralized agent management system (AMS) to control the overall system. However, the partners and users may be distributed agents connected to the center through agent communication or centralized at the AMS container using the slave agents to represent the physical agents. The system is able to determine the task allocation for a group of robot working as a team to provide a service. A number of experiments have been conducted successfully in our lab environment using Issac robot, a PDA for user agent and a wireless network system, operated under our multi agent framework control. The experiments show that this framework works well and provides some advantages to existing systems.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.127-133
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• 2002

In this paper a web-based real-time education system, which is able to support education through multimedia, is suggested for the expansion of learner's creative ability in the school. This system is designed so that it can support three things: 1) a real time interaction between instructors and learners, 2) individual learning through such an interaction, and 3) a coercive distribution of display by instructions for preventing the deviation of learners from learning. Also, this system, which UML is applied to, makes efficient interaction possible through the module for the real-time exchange and management of messages even in the multi-user environment. Through this system, not only the simulation by learners can be made for experiments and practices, but also Questions and respondence can be supported on the procedure of experiments and the analysis of their results. This system is built on constructivism, and aimed at helping the learning progress and knowledge formation of learners.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.639-643
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• 2007

The paper presents a framework for developing real-time multi-user board games and applications in augmented reality. Recently, increase the environment to playing game in augmented reality with advancement of computing ability improvement and wireless networking technique of mobile device. While the trend of utilizing this kind of games is creasing, the facts that there is a shortage of games whose contents are attractive to users. In this paper we propose a framework that enables game content developers to develop new game contents base on augmented reality easily and quickly. This framework is an automatic service that can augment in various methods by using the supported marker recognition service. Therefore game contents developers do not need to know about either augmented reality technique or the inner process structure. The framework also supports special functions and various interaction interfaces for augmented reality board game and components of the board game we can implement. These enable developers to accomplish all the necessary components and structures of the board game more easily.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.108-111
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose the Table-top system for using educational contents. Table-top system that is matched visual information and interaction space offers easy and intuitive interface. Moreover, because the effectiveness of education is enlarged if the content for education intuitive recognizes and an interaction, the table top system is suitable. In this paper, the multi touch,that is the advantage of the table top system, was implemented in the content for education manufactured as a flash. This system can solve the member of the instinctive interaction between a user and the contents which was short in the system like the existing desktop.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.69-84
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• 2022

The purpose of this research is to examine the user experience design that effectively exhibits botanical information through a virtual habitat built with 3D modeling and scanning data for the conservatory at Seoul Botanic Park. Seoul Botanic Park's conservatory contains environmental and ecological information on the wide spectrum of diverse plants under twelve cities all over the world. However, the exhibition method, which focuses on maps and information boards, has limitations in delivering diverse plant and habitat information to visitors. Virtual and augmented reality can be used as an effective tool for educating and experiencing the contents of various plant species as it can convey the ecological and environmental conditions of the habitat and local culture at diverse levels. This study experimented with constructing virtual habitats using the Unreal Engine and effectively communicating various botanical information through the interaction. With the introduction of a virtual habitat, we intend to enhance the user experience of park visitors and ultimately explore the possibility of using virtual and augmented reality to convey multi-layered environmental and ecological information of landscape.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.685-695
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• 2008

This paper presents a method to segment the object of interest from a set of multi-view images with minimal user interaction. Specifically, after the user segments an initial image, we first estimate the transformations between foreground and background of the segmented image and the neighboring image, respectively. From these transformations, we obtain regions in the neighboring image that respectively correspond to the foreground and the background of the segmented image. We are then able to segment the neighboring image based on these regions, and iterate this process to segment the whole image set. Transformation of foregrounds are estimated by feature-based registration with free-form deformation, while transformation of backgrounds are estimated by homography constrained to affine transformation. Here, both are based on correspondence point pairs. Segmentation is done by estimating pixel color distributions and defining a shape prior based on the obtained foreground and background regions and applying them to a Markov random field (MRF) energy minimization framework for image segmentation. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.