• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.69-78
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• 2017

PURPOSES : In this study, we analyzed the road crossing behavior of older pedestrians on a mid-block signalized crosswalk, and compared it to that of younger pedestrians. In addition, we analyzed the correlation between accidents involving older pedestrians while crossing roads and their behavioral characteristics. Finally, we confirmed the reasons for an increase in accidents involving older pedestrians. METHODS : First, 30 areas with the highest incidence of accidents involving older pedestrians while crossing roads were selected as target areas for analysis. Next, we measured the start-up delay (the time elapsed from the moment the signal turns green to the moment the pedestrian starts walking) and head movement (the number of head turns during crossing a road) of 900 (450 older and 450 younger) pedestrians. The next step was to conduct a survey and confirm the differences in judgment between older and younger pedestrians about approaching vehicles. Finally, we analyzed the correlation between the survey results and traffic accidents. RESULTS : The average start-up delay and head movement of the older pedestrians was 1.58 seconds and 3.15 times, respectively. A definite correlation was obtained between head movement and the frequency of pedestrian traffic accidents. The results of our survey indicate that 17.3% of the older pedestrians and 7.8% of the younger pedestrians have a high crash risk. CONCLUSIONS : Behavioral characteristics of older pedestrians were closely correlated with accidents involving older pedestrians while crossing roads in mid-block signalized crosswalks. Our study indicates that in order to reduce the number of accidents involving older pedestrians, it is necessary to develop an improvement plan including measures such as installation of safety facilities taking the behavioral characteristics of older pedestrians into consideration and their safety education.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.1245-1246
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• 2022

Walkability is an indicator of how much pedestrians are willing to walk and how well a walking environment is created. As walking can promote pedestrians' mental and physical health, there has been increasing focus on improving walkability in different ways. Thus, plenty of research has been undertaken to measure walkability. When measuring walkability, there are many objective and subjective variables. Subjective variables include a feeling of safety, pleasure, or comfort, which can significantly affect perceived walkability. However, these subjective factors are difficult to measure by making the walkability index more reliant on objective and physical factors. Because many subjective variables are associated with human emotional states, understanding pedestrians' emotional states provides an opportunity to measure the subjective walkability variables more quantitatively. Pedestrians' emotions can be examined through surveys, but there are social and economic difficulties involved when conducting surveys. Recently, an increasing number of studies have employed physiological data to measure pedestrians' stress responses when navigating unpleasant environmental barriers on their walking paths. However, studies investigating the emotional states of pedestrians in the walking environment, including assessing their positive emotions felt, such as pleasure, have rarely been conducted. Using wearable devices, this study examined the various emotional states of pedestrians affected by the walking environment. Specifically, this study aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of monitoring biometric data, such as electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate variability (HRV), using wearable devices as an indicator of pedestrians' emotional states-both pleasant-unpleasant and aroused-relaxed states. To this end, various walking environments with different characteristics were set up to collect and analyze the pedestrians' biometric data. Subsequently, the subjects wearing the wearable devices were allowed to walk on the experimental paths as usual. After the experiment, the valence (i.e., pleasant or unpleasant) and arousal (i.e., activated or relaxed) scale of the pedestrians was identified through a bipolar dimension survey. The survey results were compared with many potentially relevant EDA and HRV signal features. The research results revealed the potential for physiological responses to indicate the pedestrians' emotional states, but further investigation is warranted. The research results were expected to provide a method to measure the subjective factors of walkability by measuring emotions and monitoring pedestrians' positive or negative feelings when walking to improve the walking environment. However, due to the lack of samples and other internal and external factors influencing emotions (which need to be studied further), it cannot be comprehensively concluded that the pedestrians' emotional states were affected by the walking environment.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.83-93
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• 2007

도시 가로 설계에서 보행자와 자동차는 동등하게 고려되어야 한다. 그러나 현 도로 설계 기준은 자동차의 이동과 접근성에 기반한 도로 기능 분류 체계에 보도 설계를 적용하고 있어 보행자의 관점을 중심으로 둔 설계 방안이 절실히 요구된다. 이런 맥락에서 본 연구는 도시 보도 설계 단계에서 보행자 서비스수준을 고려할 것을 제안하였다. 그러나 현 도로용량편람에 제시된 기준은 보행 속도 등 보행 교통량에 기반하여 보행서비스수준을 평가토록 하고 있으나 도시 도로 설계 실무에서 보행 교통량은 거의 예측하지 않고 있으며, 도시부의 대다수 가로의 보도에서 보행 통행량 기반의 서비스수준 평가는 매우 드물게 경험하고 있어 서비스수준 평가 범위가 매우 제약되었다고 본다. 본 연구는 마주보고 통행하는 보행자들이 상충 시 경험하는 쾌적 수준에 기반한 보행 서비스수준 평가기준을 검토하고, 이를 용도지역별로 조사된 보행 통행 특성과 연계하여 도시 보도의 설계 단계에서 활용 가능한 서비스수준 평가기준을 제안하였다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.8-18
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• 2005

Pedestrians involved in traffic accidents manifest unique trajectory characteristics depending on the collision speed, vehicle configuration, and pedestrian postures. However, the existing analytical models for pedestrian movements do not fully include the rotational characteristics of the pedestrians because they assume a two dimensional parabolic trajectory. This faulty assumption in the development of these models limits their applicability and reliability This study investigated the pedestrians movement at collision by computer simulation. The simulations are carried out by using HADYMO, which is a special simulation software system for dynamic movement analysis. Vehicles and pedestrians are modeled and verified via real crash worthiness experiments. Simulations are performed for various collision speeds, vehicle configuration, and pedestrian postures. Since the simulation uses multi-body dynamics, It can express irregular phenomena of the bodies quite well. The results can be exploited for vehicle design and traffic accident reconstruction.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.167-177
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• 2019

Even though so much progresses have been achieved in Multiple Object Tracking (MOT), most of reported MOT methods are not still satisfactory for commercial embedded products like Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) camera. In this paper, we propose a real-time multiple pedestrians tracking method for embedded environments. First, we design a new light weight convolutional neural network(CNN)-based pedestrian detector, which is constructed to detect even small size pedestrians, as well. For further saving of processing time, the designed detector is applied for every other frame, and Kalman filter is employed to predict pedestrians' positions in frames where the designed CNN-based detector is not applied. The pose orientation information is incorporated to enhance object association for tracking pedestrians without further computational cost. Through experiments on Nvidia's embedded computing board, Jetson TX2, it is verified that the designed pedestrian detector detects even small size pedestrians fast and well, compared to many state-of-the-art detectors, and that the proposed tracking method can track pedestrians in real-time and show accuracy performance comparably to performances of many state-of-the-art tracking methods, which do not target for operation in embedded systems.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제29권6D호
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• pp.703-709
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• 2009

본 연구는 교통약자의 이동시설에 대한 실태 및 의식조사를 바탕으로 향후 지하철역사에 추가 도입될 교통약자 시설 개선의 전략 수립시 기초자료를 제시하는 것이 목적이다. 본 연구를 위해 선행연구와 교통약자의 이동편의 증진법의 이동시설 관련 평가항목을 선정하고, 설문조사 및 변형된 중요도-만족도(M-IPA) 분석을 수행하였다. 본 연구는 장애인이 시급히 개선을 요구하는 사항에 대한 개선전략을 수립하는 것이 목적이므로 장애인을 중심으로 결과를 서술하였다. 첫째, 종합적인 측면의 M-IPA 분석결과 장애인은 안내시설에 대한 개선이 필요한 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 세부적인 측정지표별 M-IPA 분석결과를 살펴보면 보행접근로, 안내방송 및 표지판, 경보 및 피난시설, 장애인화장실에 대한 시설개선이 필요한 것으로 나타나 일반인들에 비해 지하철 역사로의 접근과 정보제공에 대한 부분이 중점적으로 부각되는 것을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 장애인들을 위한 시설개선시 접근과 정보제공에 대한 시설을 시급히 개선하는 것이 지하철 역사의 접근과 이동성 제고를 위해 가장 우선순위 높은 개선사항이라 할 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.193-202
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 이동 카메라로부터 획득한 컬러 영상에서 다수의 보행자를 검출하고 추적하기 위한 히스토그램과 컬러 정보기반 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 RGB 컬러 히스토그램 기법을 이용하여 인접한 보행자를 검출하고 검출된 보행자는 RGB 평균값을 이용하여 추적하였다. 따라서 보행자가 서로 인접해 있거나 약간 겹쳐진 경우에도 검출할 수 있고 보행자의 형태가 변하는 경우에도 효율적으로 추적하였다. 제안된 알고리즘에 대하여 비디오 카메라로 녹화한 영상을 컴퓨터에서 입력받아 보행자 검출과 추적 실험을 수행하여 제안한 알고리즘의 우수성을 입증하였다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.189-196
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• 2013

This paper presents a two-stage approach to detect pedestrians in video sequences taken from a moving vehicle. The first stage is a preprocessing step, in which potential pedestrians are hypothesized. During the preprocessing step, a difference image is constructed using a global motion estimation, vertical and horizontal edge maps are extracted, and the color difference between the road and pedestrians are determined to create candidate regions where pedestrians may be present. The candidate regions are refined further using the vertical edge symmetry features of the pedestrians' legs. In the next stage, each hypothesis is verified using the integral channel features and an AdaBoost classifier. In this stage, a decision is made as to whether or not each candidate region contains a pedestrian. The proposed algorithm was tested on a range of dataset images and showed good performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2310-2325
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• 2016

In this paper, we provide a trajectory-generation algorithm that can identify pedestrians in real time. Typically, the contours for the extraction of pedestrians from the foreground of images are not clear due to factors including brightness and shade; furthermore, pedestrians move in different directions and interact with each other. These issues mean that the identification of pedestrians and the generation of trajectories are somewhat difficult. We propose a new method for trajectory generation regarding multiple pedestrians. The first stage of the method distinguishes between those pedestrian-blob situations that need to be merged and those that require splitting, followed by the use of trained decision trees to separate the pedestrians. The second stage generates the trajectories of each pedestrian by using the point-correspondence method; however, we introduce a new point-correspondence algorithm for which the A* search method has been modified. By using fuzzy membership functions, a heuristic evaluation of the correspondence between the blobs was also conducted. The proposed method was implemented and tested with the PETS 2009 dataset to show an effective multiple-pedestrian-tracking capability in a pedestrian-interaction environment.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권11호
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• pp.1000-1008
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 GPS의 사용이 불가능한 실내 교통 환경에서 이동 애드혹 네트워크 환경을 통해 차량 운전자가 시야에서 볼 수 없는 근처 보행자의 위치 추적을 통해 충돌 사고의 발생을 미연에 방지하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 연구와는 달리, 제안 알고리즘은 WiFi AP 또는 bluetooth 시스템과 같은 기반시설에 의존하지 않고, 자동차와 보행자 간의 애드혹 망을 실시간으로 구성함으로써 자동차와 보행자의 상대적 위치 추적을 제공한다. 또한 제안 알고리즘은 유전자 알고리즘을 기반으로 하여 기존의 방식보다 효과적으로 신속하고 정확한 위치추적을 수행한다. 시뮬레이션 성능 평가를 통하여 기존 알고리즘과 제안하는 알고리즘의 정확성과 신속성을 비교한다.