• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.69-75
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• 2003

Virtual colonoscopy is one of the Powerful tool for non-invasive colon examination and many in-vitro and in-vivo studies have shown its accuracy in Polyp or adenoma detection. But most of virtual colonoscopy requires high quality workstation and software and its cost is high to setup whole system. We developed PC-based 3D model creation and navigation program which has diverse functions. It can be easily installed to PC and connected to network system. The performance. when used as a virtual colonoscopy. is evaluated by calculating sensitivity of detection for the simulated polyp which is artificially made inside the Pig's colon and checked its clinical feasibility, Its total sensitivity is 76%. Grouping according to Polyps diameter, the sensitivity for detection of polyps 10 ㎜ or larger was 100%(40 of 40); 5.0-9.9 ㎜, 90.0(90 of 100): and smaller then 5 ㎜. 36.7%(22 of 60).

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.279-286
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• 2015

최근 들어 급증하고 있는 해양사고의 주요 원인은 인간의 수행 오류에 기인하고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 디지털 선박의 구축, 선박 정보의 모니터링 시스템 등의 다양한 연구가 진행되었다. 그러나 선박의 안전한 항해를 위해 다양한 형태의 대량 정보를 효율적으로 저장하고, 이용하고, 관리하는 시스템에 대한 연구가 미흡하다. 본 논문은 지능형 자율운항시스템의 아키텍쳐인 RVC 지능시스템 모델을 기반으로 하는 VWS(Virtual World System)을 제안한다. VWS는 선박의 안전 항해에 필요한 모든 정보를 저장하고 지능형 자율운항시스템의 부시스템에 정보를 서비스한다. VWS는 특정 문제 영역을 표현하기 위하여 토폴로지 데이터베이스를 이용하고, 실시간 처리 특성을 반영하기 위하여 스케줄링을 도입하였다. 또한 분산 처리 특성을 반영하기 위하여 가상세계 API를 정의하였다. 본 논문에서는 설계된 VWS를 지능형 선박 자율운항시스템에 장착하고 시뮬레이션을 통하여 그 효율성을 입증해 보였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.891-900
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• 2010

In this paper, a map-matching (MM) algorithm which combines an estimated position with digital road data is proposed. The presented algorithm using a virtual track is appropriate for a MEMS-based pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) system, which can be used in mobile devices. Most of the previous MM algorithms are for car navigation systems and GPS-based navigation system, so existing MM algorithms are not appropriate for the pure DR-based pedestrian navigation system. The biggest problem of previous MM algorithms is that they cannot determine the correct road segment (link) due to the DR characteristics. In DR-based navigation system, the current position is propagated from the previous estimated position. This means that the MM result can be placed on a wrong link when MM algorithm fails to decide the correct link at once. It is a critical problem. Previous algorithms never overcome this problem because they did not consider pure DR characteristics. The MM algorithm using the virtual track is proposed to overcome this problem with improved accuracy. Performance of the proposed MM algorithm was verified by experiments.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2000년도 Proceeding of CIN-KIN Joint Symposium 2000 on M.E.T. Under STCW 78/95 and SINO-KOREA MARITIME CONTACT IN MID-CENTURIES
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• pp.93-105
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• 2000

This paper describes prototype Virtual Reality Ship Simulator (VRSS) that we have recently developed next-generation training equipment based on the virtual reality (VR) technology. The inherent defects of conventional ship simulators are enormous costs and difficult system upgrade due to the system construction, such as large mock-up bridge system, wide visual presentations, In this paper, to cope with those problems, we explored VR technology that can give realistic environments in a virtual world. Then we constructed prototype VRSS system, which is, consists of PC-based human sensors, and Databases set having 3D object models and coefficients of Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs). 3D-WEBMASTER authoring tool was used as Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). Using the VRSS system, we constructed Port an Passage Simulator for the harbor of INCHON in Korea, and Ship and Sea State Simulator for an arbitrary given sea environmental states by user. Through many simulation tests, we testified the efficiency of developed prototype VRSS by subject assessment with five participants. Then, we present results on the simulation experiments and conclude with discussion of evaluation results.

• 한국감성과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국감성과학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.78-83
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• 2003

We investigated the physiological patterns of cybersickness in a Virtual Reality(VR). Subject were exposed to the VR for 9.5 min, and required to detect specific virtual objects. Sixteen electrophysiological signals were recorded before, during, and after the virtual navigation. five questionnaires on the VR experience were acquired form 61 healthy subjects. During the virtual navigation, subjects with the high cybersickness susceptibility showed significant physiological changes, which included increased gastric tachyarrhythmia, eyeblink frequency, and EEG delta wave and decreased EEG beta wave. These results suggest that cybersickness may induce or accompany the changes in central nervous system and autonomic nervous system. Also, these results suggest that there may be increased sympathetic activation in autonomic drive for cybersickness.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.272-280
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• 2014

Most of the car navigation systems pzrovide 2D or 3D virtual map-based driving guidance. One of the important issues is how to reduce cognitive burden to the driver who should interpret the abstracted information to real world driving information. Recently, an augmented reality (AR)-based navigation is considered as a new way to reduce cognitive workload by superimposing guidance information into the real world scene captured by the camera. In particular, head-up display (HUD) is popular to implement AR navigation. However, HUD is too expensive to be set up in most cars so that the HUD-based AR navigation is currently unrealistic for navigational assistance. Meanwhile, smartphones with advanced computing capability and various sensors are popularized and also provide navigational assistance. This paper presents a research on cognitive effect and responsiveness of an AR navigation by a comparative study with a conventional virtual map-based navigation on the same smartphone. This paper experimented both quantitative and qualitative studies to compare cognitive workload and responsiveness, respectively. The number of eye gazing at the navigation system is used to measure the cognitive effect. In addition, questionnaires are used for qualitative analysis of the responsiveness.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.569-581
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 윈도우 환경을 기반으로 하는 가상현실이나 게임에서 사용되는 네비게이션 메쉬(navigation mesh)에서 곡선을 생성하는 기법을 제안한다. 윈도우 환경을 기반으로 하는 가상현실이나 게임에서 주로 사용되는 지형 생성 방식에는 그리드(grid) 방식과 네비게이션 메쉬 방식이다. 그리드 방식은 지형을 생성할 때 격자를 이용함으로 자연스러운 지형을 생성하기 어렵다. 또한 정밀한 묘사를 위해서는 많은 수의 격자가 필요하여 시스템에 부담을 준다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 네비게이션 메쉬가 등장하였으며, 네비게이션 메쉬는 그리드 방식에 비해 시스템에 부담을 주지 않는다는 장점이 있다. 그러나 이러한 네비게이션 메쉬에서 캐릭터가 이동하게 되면 부자연스럽게 움직이게 되는 문제가 발생한다. 캐릭터의 부자연스러운 이동 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 구형 곡선을 이용한 곡선생성 기법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 구형 곡선 생성 기법을 윈도우 기반 가상현실이나 게임에 이용하면 캐릭터가 자연스럽게 이동할 수 있는 장점이 있다.

• 한국감성과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국감성과학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.107-113
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• 2002

We examined the psychophysiological effects of navigation in a virtual reality (VR). Subjects were exposed to the VR, and required to detect specific objects. Ten electrophysiological signals were recorded before, during, and after navigation in the VR. Six questionnaires on the VR experience were acquired from 45 healthy subjects. There were significant changes between the VR period and the pre-VR control period in several psychophysiological measurements. During the VR period, eye blink, skin conductance level, and alpha frequency of EEG were decreased but gamma wave were increased. Physiological changes associated with cybersickness included increased heart rate, eye blink, skin conductance response, and gamma wave and decreased photoplethysmogram and skin temperature. These results suggest an attentional change during VR navigation and activation of the autonomic nervous system for cybersickness. These findings would enhance our understanding for the psychophysiological changes during VR navigation and cybersickness.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.290-298
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• 2013

A walking navigation system (usually known as a locomotion interface) is an interactive platform which gives simulated walking sensation to users using sensed bipedal motion signals. This enables us to perform navigation tasks using only bipedal movement. Especially, it is useful for the certain VR task which emphasizes on physical human movement, or accompanies understanding of the size and complexity of building structures. In this work, we described system components of VR walking system and investigated several types of walking platform by literature survey. We adopted a MS Kinect depth sensor for the motion recognition and a treadmill which includes directional turning mechanism for the walking platform. Through the integration of these components with a VR navigation scenario, we developed a simple VR walking navigation system. Finally several technical issues were found during development process, and further research directions were suggested for the system improvement.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2017

In order to make a virtual endoscopy system effective for exploring the interior of the 3D model of a human organ, it is necessary to generate an accurate navigation path located inside the 3D model and to obtain consistent camera position and pose estimation along the path. In this paper, we propose an approach to virtual navigation of blood vessels, which makes proper use of orthogonal contours and skeleton curves. The approach generates the orthogonal contours and the skeleton curves from the 3D mesh model and its voxel model, all of which represent the blood vessels. For a navigation zone specified by two nodes on the skeleton curves, it computes the shortest path between the two nodes, estimates the positions and poses of a virtual camera at the nodes in the navigation zone, and interpolates the positions and poses to make the camera move smoothly along the path. In addition to keyboard and mouse input, intuitive hand gestures determined by the Leap Motion SDK are used as user interface for virtual navigation of the blood vessels. The proposed approach provides easy and accurate means for the user to examine the interior of 3D blood vessels without any collisions between the camera and their surface. With a simple user study, we present illustrative examples of applying the approach to 3D mesh models of various blood vessels in order to show its quality and usefulness.