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An Interactive Aerobic Training System Using Vision and Multimedia Technologies

  • Chalidabhongse, Thanarat H.;Noichaiboon, Alongkot
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1191-1194
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    • 2004
  • We describe the development of an interactive aerobic training system using vision-based motion capture and multimedia technology. Unlike the traditional one-way aerobic training on TV, the proposed system allows the virtual trainer to observe and interact with the user in real-time. The system is composed of a web camera connected to a PC watching the user moves. First, the animated character on the screen makes a move, and then instructs the user to follow its movement. The system applies a robust statistical background subtraction method to extract a silhouette of the moving user from the captured video. Subsequently, principal body parts of the extracted silhouette are located using model-based approach. The motion of these body parts is then analyzed and compared with the motion of the animated character. The system provides audio feedback to the user according to the result of the motion comparison. All the animation and video processing run in real-time on a PC-based system with consumer-type camera. This proposed system is a good example of applying vision algorithms and multimedia technology for intelligent interactive home entertainment systems.

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Exploring Support Vector Machine Learning for Cloud Computing Workload Prediction

  • ALOUFI, OMAR
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.10
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    • pp.374-388
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    • 2022
  • Cloud computing has been one of the most critical technology in the last few decades. It has been invented for several purposes as an example meeting the user requirements and is to satisfy the needs of the user in simple ways. Since cloud computing has been invented, it had followed the traditional approaches in elasticity, which is the key characteristic of cloud computing. Elasticity is that feature in cloud computing which is seeking to meet the needs of the user's with no interruption at run time. There are traditional approaches to do elasticity which have been conducted for several years and have been done with different modelling of mathematical. Even though mathematical modellings have done a forward step in meeting the user's needs, there is still a lack in the optimisation of elasticity. To optimise the elasticity in the cloud, it could be better to benefit of Machine Learning algorithms to predict upcoming workloads and assign them to the scheduling algorithm which would achieve an excellent provision of the cloud services and would improve the Quality of Service (QoS) and save power consumption. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the use of machine learning techniques in order to predict the workload of Physical Hosts (PH) on the cloud and their energy consumption. The environment of the cloud will be the school of computing cloud testbed (SoC) which will host the experiments. The experiments will take on real applications with different behaviours, by changing workloads over time. The results of the experiments demonstrate that our machine learning techniques used in scheduling algorithm is able to predict the workload of physical hosts (CPU utilisation) and that would contribute to reducing power consumption by scheduling the upcoming virtual machines to the lowest CPU utilisation in the environment of physical hosts. Additionally, there are a number of tools, which are used and explored in this paper, such as the WEKA tool to train the real data to explore Machine learning algorithms and the Zabbix tool to monitor the power consumption before and after scheduling the virtual machines to physical hosts. Moreover, the methodology of the paper is the agile approach that helps us in achieving our solution and managing our paper effectively.

A Research on the Uses of Storytelling Approach for Architecture (건축분야에서의 스토리텔링 기법 활용방안 연구)

  • Yoon, Ki-Byung
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 2007
  • Storytelling approach is the way to formulate and solve problems using stories. Story is a means to understand and react everyday life that can be regarded as multi-dimensional problems. The approach becomes popular in various fields in conjunction with digital technology. In particular, it is used to solve problems in relation to whole context. In design, storytelling approach is used to clarify design constraints. It can be used to clarify and communicate thoughts for design artifacts, and to understand how the artifacts might be used in particular circumstances. In particular, the approach is useful to use under uncertain circumstances. In architecture, storytelling approach can be used in the area of design generation, design critique and capturing design knowledge. In design generation, it can be used to describe and formulate design experiences rather than simple designing artifacts. The approach formalizes design based on stories of user experiences. Digital technology such as virtual reality can be used to experience designed spaces for design modifications. In design critique area, it can be used to fill uncertain facts for historical buildings as welt as different from present status. Such stories can be used to build digital modeling and used to open criticism. Stories can be used to formalize knowledge in architectural domain as a form of implicit knowledge for certain projects. In architecture, it often is required to design types of environment never experienced before as well as to accomodate fast changing technologies. Storytelling methodology can be used as a method to cope with uncertainty and complexity in design requirements along with accumulating design knowledge.

A study on the application of virtual reality technology to exhibition space (가상현실 기술의 전시 공간 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jae-Young;Kwon, Jun-Sik
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.18 no.8
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    • pp.1585-1591
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    • 2017
  • In this study, we propose the application of exhibition contents using virtual environment technology in exhibition space. Research on the virtual environment is continuing. Particularly, research on virtual reality technology is one of the most active research fields. As researches and developments of augmented reality technologies have been carried out with the spread of smart phones, researches on virtual reality technologies have also made a lot of progress with emphasis on games and interactivity. Especially, development of hardware, software, and content is accelerating this year, including the development of various types of physical reality devices, especially HMD (Head Mounted Device) equipment and new product announcements. We want to study and apply the environment in which the system based on this virtual reality technology can approach and experience more user friendly in the exhibition space.

Adaptive VM Allocation and Migration Approach using Fuzzy Classification and Dynamic Threshold (퍼지 분류 및 동적 임계 값을 사용한 적응형 VM 할당 및 마이그레이션 방식)

  • Mateo, John Cristopher A.;Lee, Jaewan
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2017
  • With the growth of Cloud computing, it is important to consider resource management techniques to minimize the overall costs of management. In cloud environments, each host's utilization and virtual machine's request based on user preferences are dynamic in nature. To solve this problem, efficient allocation method of virtual machines to hosts where the classification of virtual machines and hosts is undetermined should be studied. In reducing the number of active hosts to reduce energy consumption, thresholds can be implemented to migrate VMs to other hosts. By using Fuzzy logic in classifying resource requests of virtual machines and resource utilization of hosts, we proposed an adaptive VM allocation and migration approach. The allocation strategy classifies the VMs according to their resource request, then assigns it to the host with the lowest resource utilization. In migrating VMs from overutilized hosts, the resource utilization of each host was used to create an upper threshold. In selecting candidate VMs for migration, virtual machines that contributed to the high resource utilization in the host were chosen to be migrated. We evaluated our work through simulations and results show that our approach was significantly better compared to other VM allocation and Migration strategies.

The effect of personal characteristic factors on the usage of SNS (SNS의 개인행위 특성요인이 사용의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Son, Dal-Ho
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.1-24
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    • 2013
  • SNS(Social Network Services) is being recognized as an important part in our society, individual lives and corporate business aspects, and the influence of SNS is growing explosively as expansion and supply of infrastructures that support mobile environments increase. Previous studies related to SNS were focused on user acceptance of new technology, based on Technology Acceptance Model(TAM). However, they had a limitation to focus on technology acceptance, without the consideration of personal and behavioral factors in SNS use. However, above all, successful SNS requires the understanding of users who are active on the network. Therefore, from the user's perspective, this study attempted a multi-dimensional approach by reflecting characteristics that come from SNS usage. This study considered user innovation, virtual skill, self-efficacy, social pressure and network effect as independent variables, and perceived ease-of-use, perceived usefulness and perceived value as mediating variables, and intention-to-use as dependent variable. The result showed that user innovation, self-efficacy, social pressure and network effect had a significant effect on the mediating variables. The practical contribution of this study is to suggest useful decision alternatives concerned to marketing strategy for acquiring and retaining lone-term customers related to SNS business.

Construction of Skin Color Map for Resolving Hand Occlusion in AR Environments (증강현실 환경에서 손 가림 해결을 위한 피부 색상 정보 획득)

  • Park, Sang-Jin;Park, Hyungjun
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.111-118
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    • 2014
  • In tangible augmented reality (AR) environments, the user interacts with virtual objects by manipulating their physical counterparts, but he or she often encounters awkward situations in which his or her hands are occluded by the augmented virtual objects, which causes great difficulty in figuring out hand positions, and reduces both immersion and ease of interaction. To solve the problem of such hand occlusion, skin color information has been usefully exploited. In this paper, we propose an approach to simple and effective construction of a skin color map which is suitable for hand segmentation and tangible AR interaction. The basic idea used herein is to obtain hand images used in a target AR environment by simple image subtraction and to represent their color information by a convex polygonal map in the YCbCr color space. We experimentally found that the convex polygonal map is more accurate in representing skin color than a conventional rectangular map. After implementing a solution for resolving hand occlusion using the proposed skin color map construction, we showed its usefulness by applying it to virtual design evaluation of digital handheld products in a tangible AR environment.

C-P-N-D Ecosystem-based Broadcasting/Media Virtual Reality (VR) Prospects (C-P-N-D 생태계 차원에서의 방송/미디어 분야 가상현실(VR) 발전 전망)

  • Lee, Jongseok;Suh, Kyoowon;Nam, Sanghun
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.19-25
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    • 2018
  • The growth of virtual reality(VR), which is regarded as a part of the 4th industrial revolution, is being delayed differently from the prediction. In this study, we briefly analyze these reasons from the point of view of CPND ecosystem. Virtual reality is a technology in which a user wears a device and accesses a platform through a network to use various contents. Therefore, balanced development of C-P-N-D ecosystem fields is important for successful popularization of virtual reality. In Korea, content, platforms, and devices, except for the network, are evaluated as having low competitiveness. While efforts to secure competitiveness in individual fields are important, it is also necessary to nurture network-based platforms that can utilize killer content. It should be kept in mind that simple breeding of killer content alone can not build an entire virtual reality C-P-N-D ecosystem, and the broadcast / media sector also needs to take this approach.

Implementation of Selective Mapping Billboard for Production of Image-based 3D Virtual Reality (실사기반의 3차원 가상현실 제작을 위한 선택적 맵핑 방식의 빌보드 구현)

  • Ahn, Eun-Young;Kim, Jae-Won
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.601-608
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    • 2010
  • This investigation proposes a new method to overcome disadvantages of panorama VR that is oriented toward spacial information and Object VR that is oriented toward object itself and consequently to make 3D virtual reality (VR) contents efficiently by using image based approach. 3D VR contents provide satisfactory qualities to users but 3D modeling is complex and elaborative and requires high cost. So, this paper aims at reducing tremendous efforts for making 3D VR by substituting 3D modeling with 'advanced Billboard'(we call it Smart Billboard). Smart Billboard has a mechanism for selecting an adequate mapping image that is observable at each user viewpoint and carry on texture mapping into the Billboard. And it is validated with the practical embodiments of a virtual museum in which the exhibitions are prepared by Smart Billboard.

An Intercell Interference Reduction Technique for OFDM-based Cellular Systems Using Virtual Multiple Antenna (OFDM 기반 셀룰러 시스템에서 가상 다중안테나를 이용한 셀간 간섭 감쇄 기법)

  • Lee Kyu-In;Ko Hyun-Soo;Ahn Jae-Young;Cho Yong-Soo
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.43 no.3 s.345
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    • pp.32-38
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, an intercell interference (ICI) reduction technique is proposed for OFDM-based cellular systems using the concept of virtual multiple antenna where multiple antenna techniques are performed on a set of subcarriers, not on the actual antenna array. The proposed technique is especially effective for user terminals with a single antenna at cell boundary in fully-loaded OFDM cellular systems with a frequency reuse factor equal to 1. Proposed ICI reduction techniques developed for SISO and MISO environments are shown to be robust to symbol timing offsets and efficient for various cell environments by adjusting group size depending on the number of adjacent cells. Also, the concept of a virtual signature randomizer (VSR) is introduced to improve channel separability in the virtual MIMO approach. It is shown by simulation that the proposed techniques are effective in reducing ICI and inter-sector interference compared with the conventional methods.