• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.59-70
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• 2022

Recently, in platforms such as YouTube and Instagram, virtual characters resembling human life become the main characters, produce various contents, breathe with the public, and create the era of virtual humans. For example, existing game characters appear as virtual characters with unique AUs, or AI characters created by reflecting the public's preferences are actively communicating with the public through advertisements and SNS activities. As the consumption of video content through smart devices increases significantly in the post-corona era, virtual influencers are being used as all-round entertainers because there is little risk of personality controversy or production cost. there is a trend In this study, we investigated the characteristics of the case of being active as an influencer among the activities of a virtual character, and how the interactive aspect of the influencer appears by identifying the current situation through major cases. Combining this, based on the analysis of the influence of virtual influencers, the parts that producers should recognize are derived, and the differentiated characteristics of interactive virtual influencers are summarized. In addition, the difficulties of virtual influencers were investigated and problems were identified, and for the development of the content industry, a more favorable method for interaction was presented and suggestions were made to secure inner sincerity.

• Journal of International Society for Simulation Surgery
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2015

Virtual Reality makes a virtual environment more realistic and, furthermore, it provides a variety of experiences which we cannot have in reality. A drastic growth of GPU performance and increase of computing capability make virtual environment more realistic than ever. One important element of constructing virtual environment is to animate 3D characters. Many researchers have been studying 3D characters animating and a myriad of methods have been proposed to make them more realistic. In this paper, we discuss the technologies and characteristics of 3D character animation. We believe that realistic characters in Virtual Reality will be applied to various fields: education, film and game industry, business and, particularly, medical area such as telemedicine, virtual surgery, etc.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제29권A호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2009

In this paper, we implement a virtual keyboard using infrared distance sensor. A virtual keyboard allows a user to enter characters by selecting keyboard layouts with sensing areas. By projecting infrared light on any flat surface and detection devices we can sense the user's input characters. Unlike a conventional physical keyboard, the virtual keyboard provides convenience in terms of mobility, portability, and space savings.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1621-1624
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• 2003

This paper presents a new method that generates a path that has no collision with the obstacles or the characters by using the three motion parameters, and automatically creates natural motions of characters that are confined to the path. Our method consists of three parameters: the joint information parameter, the behavior information parameter, and the environment information parameter. The joint information parameters are extracted from the joint angle data of the character and this information is used when creating a path following motion by finding the relation-function of the parameters on each joint. A user can set the behavior information parameter such as velocity, status, and preference and this information is used for creating different paths, motions, and collision avoidance patterns. A user can create the virtual environment such as road and obstacle, also. The environment is stored as environment information parameters to be used later in generating a path without collision. The path is generated using Hermit-curve and each control point is set at important places.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제27권9_10호
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• pp.1015-1025
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• 2003

This paper proposes a method for constructing the virtual characters adopting the personal body types for the clothing coordination. At first, the method produces the 38 kinds of the Korean 3D body models considering sex, ages and body types, and constructs model DB. We select a model similar to the personal body size from DB and deform the selected model according to body size. The method deforms the model linearly for height 12 items, width 6 items, depth 5 items and round 13 items, and constructs the personal character fitted to the personal body size. The preprocess for model deformation consists of grouping for body part and establishing the feature points. Linear deformation for each group leads us to easy construction of the virtual personal characters. This method has two advantages as follows: 1. Large reduction of man power, cost and time for DB construction of the body 3D models, since the preprocess permits us to effectively use the various body models whose geometrical structures are different, 2 Suitability to Web-based clothing coordination, since the body deformation method is simple and its speed is very high.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.651-659
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 무제약 필기체 한글 분할을 위하여 기존 방법들에서 제시된 적이 없는 문자간 여백에서 가상 네트워크 탐색 시스템을 이용하는 새로운 방법을 설계하고 구현하였다 제안된 방법은 다양한 필기자들이 제한 없이 쓰여진 모든 문자들에 대하여 적용이 가능하도록 설계되었고, 또한 문자간 여백에서 생성되는 가상 네트워크의 경로를 이용함으로서 꺾은선 형태의 다양한 분할경로를 얻을 수 있도록 설계되었다. 또한 탐색 시스템을 구현하는 과정에서 분할대상 블록의 길이에 따른 탐색 윈도우를 달리 적용함으로서 원하지 않는 영역에서 분할경로가 생성되는 것을 방지하였다 본 논문에서 제안하는 가상 네트워크 탐색 시스템에 대해 임의의 필기자들로 부터 자체적으로 수집한 800여개의 데이터를 대상으로 실험을 수행한 결과, 중첩되거나 접촉된 문자들을 포함하여 전체적으로 $91.4\%$ 정도의 분할 정확도를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.245-251
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• 2017

이 논문에서는 학습자가 가상현실 안에서 음성으로 원어민 캐릭터와 대화하는 영어 대화 학습 시스템을 제안한다. 제안 시스템에서 사용자는 다양한 시나리오의 가상현실 상황에서 대화를 한다. 시스템은 사용자의 음성을 인식하고, 음성 합성을 이용하여 캐릭터의 음성을 제공한다. 몰입감과 현실감 있는 환경을 제공하는 가상현실 환경을 통해 영어 대화하는 과정에서 학습의 발음을 평가한 정보를 학습자에게 피드백으로 제공한다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.125-130
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• 2001

Skilled typists can type characters or words without looking at keyboard, relying on the finger's relative position. If the relative positions of the fingers can be identified, a virtual keyboard may be accomplished by applying the concept of "DataGlove" or "FingerRing". The virtual keyboard may be efficient as a new mobile input device supporting QWERTY keyboard layout. For the purpose of investigating skilled typing pattern, in this paper the touch-positions of the fingers are measured with a touchscreen while five skilled typists type a long sentence. From these measurements it can be observed that the groups of touch-positions are classified into alphabet characters. Though there are some overlapped groups we can find constant distances capable of being discriminated among the groups from investigation of the change of touch-position for touch-time. Based on the analysis, the prediction algorithm of the constant distance is proposed and evaluated, which is useful for realization of a portable virtual keyboard.le virtual keyboard.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2020

최근, 대전 게임 분야에서, 가상 캐릭터들의 효과적인 설계를 위해 캐릭터의 승률을 효율적으로 예측할 수 있는 방법들이 매우 필요하다. 우리는 본 논문에서 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 시뮬레이션과 기계 학습을 결합하는 방법을 제안한다. 우선 대전 게임에서 가상 캐릭터의 대전 승률을 분석하기 위해서 시뮬레이션을 사용하고, 가상 캐릭터의 능력치에 따라서 승률을 예측하기 위해 회귀 모델에 기반한 기계 학습 기법을 적용한다. 제안한 기법으로 실험한 결과는 시뮬레이션 결과로 나온 승률과 기계 학습 기법이 예측한 승률이 거의 차이가 없다는 것을 확인하였다. 그리고 간단한 회귀 모델에 기반한 기계 학습으로도 실험에서 좋은 성능을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.74-84
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• 2020

In November 2018, virtual pop band K/DA, with the use of holograms and actual K-pop girl group members, performed its debut album titled "POP/STARS" at the opening ceremony of the League of Legends S8 final, hosted by Riot Games. The fan culture that exists for real singers adapts itself to virtual bands, and K/DA, consisting of virtual characters, encouraging the production of user created content (UCC). However, this form of UCC is different from the most common one, meaning that this type of band generates another way of consuming content. Therefore, this study examines how K/DA's digital characters are transformed and reproduced by UCC and how the original producers' content differs from them. Firstly, the development of this study considers the open characteristics of UCC, such as user type, created motivation, created process, content type and sharing method. In the second part, the virtual idol Hatsune Miku and virtual band Pentakill will be analysed to understand UCC. Thirdly, K/DA will be analyzed as a case study based on three factors: created motivation, content type and sharing method. In this manner, this study aims to explain how UCC for virtual bands reproduce and consume original content and expand their commercial value.