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Study on Levee Visual Inspection Information System Building Using Mobile Technology

  • Kang, Seung-Hyun;Lee, Jong-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.71-76
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we propose the mobile visual inspection information system using DGPS and portable range finder for levee safety inspection. Instead of existing visual inspection management method that is stored hand-written data, this system is designed to manage directly the visual inspection information using mobile devices in the field of levee. And through extracting accurate DGPS coordinates information about damage location of levee, this system is developed to ensure efficiency for the main task arising from the levee site such as inspection, maintenance and reinforcement. Furthermore, when damage has occurred at the point that inspector is not able to approach, this system can record the damage site data correctly, by converting data such as position, orientation and height of the damage point into the World Geodetic System coordinates. The position, orientation and height data was extracted automatically through the DGPS and portable range finder. And by applying the augmented reality method, this system was implemented for inspector to revisit the point of damage easily in order to perform the management, maintenance and reinforcement of the levee later.

Computer Vision System using the mechanisms of human visual attention (인간의 시각적 주의 능력을 이용한 컴퓨터 시각 시스템)

  • 최경주;이일병
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2001.06d
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    • pp.239-242
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    • 2001
  • As systems for real time computer vision are confronted with prodigious amounts of visual information, it has become a priority to locate and analyze just that information essential to the task at hand, while ignoring the vast flow of irrelevant detail. A method of achieving this is to using human visual attention mechanism. In this paper, short review of human visual attention mechanisms and some computation models of visual attention were shown. This paper can be used as the basic data for researches on development of visual attention system that can perform various complex tasks more efficiently.

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Constructing a Noise-Robust Speech Recognition System using Acoustic and Visual Information (청각 및 시가 정보를 이용한 강인한 음성 인식 시스템의 구현)

  • Lee, Jong-Seok;Park, Cheol-Hoon
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.719-725
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we present an audio-visual speech recognition system for noise-robust human-computer interaction. Unlike usual speech recognition systems, our system utilizes the visual signal containing speakers' lip movements along with the acoustic signal to obtain robust speech recognition performance against environmental noise. The procedures of acoustic speech processing, visual speech processing, and audio-visual integration are described in detail. Experimental results demonstrate the constructed system significantly enhances the recognition performance in noisy circumstances compared to acoustic-only recognition by using the complementary nature of the two signals.

Hybrid Block Coding of Medical Images Using the Characteristics of Human Visual System

  • Park, Kwang-Suk;Chee, Young-Joon
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 1994
  • The demand of image compression is increasing now for the integration of medical images into the hospital information system. Even though the quantitative distortion can be measured from the difference between original and reconstructed images, it doesn't include the nonlinear characteristics of human visual system. In this study, we have evaluated the nonlinear characteristics of human visual system and applied them to the compression of medical images. The distortion measures which reflect the characteristics of human visual system has been considered. This image compression procedure consists of coding scheme using JND (Just Noticeable Difference) curve, polynomial approximation and BTC (Block Truncation Coding). Results show that this method can be applied to CT images, scanned film images and other kinds of medical images with the compression ratio of 5-10:1 without any noticeable distortion.

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The Effect of Visual Feedback on One-hand Gesture Performance in Vision-based Gesture Recognition System

  • Kim, Jun-Ho;Lim, Ji-Hyoun;Moon, Sung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.551-556
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    • 2012
  • Objective: This study presents the effect of visual feedback on one-hand gesture performance in vision-based gesture recognition system when people use gestures to control a screen device remotely. Backgroud: gesture interaction receives growing attention because it uses advanced sensor technology and it allows users natural interaction using their own body motion. In generating motion, visual feedback has been to considered critical factor affect speed and accuracy. Method: three types of visual feedback(arrow, star, and animation) were selected and 20 gestures were listed. 12 participants perform each 20 gestures while given 3 types of visual feedback in turn. Results: People made longer hand trace and take longer time to make a gesture when they were given arrow shape feedback than star-shape feedback. The animation type feedback was most preferred. Conclusion: The type of visual feedback showed statistically significant effect on the length of hand trace, elapsed time, and speed of motion in performing a gesture. Application: This study could be applied to any device that needs visual feedback for device control. A big feedback generate shorter length of motion trace, less time, faster than smaller one when people performs gestures to control a device. So the big size of visual feedback would be recommended for a situation requiring fast actions. On the other hand, the smaller visual feedback would be recommended for a situation requiring elaborated actions.

A Study on the Visual System of Object - Oriented Based on Abstract Information (객체지향을 기반으로한 추상화 정보의 시각화 시스템에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Haeng-Kon;Han, Eun-Ju;Chung, Youn-Ki
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.4 no.10
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    • pp.2434-2444
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    • 1997
  • As software industry progresses, the necessity of visual information have increased more than text-oriented information. So, automatic tools are required to satisfy a user's desire for visual design representation of various source information in the real-world. In this paper, we discuss the methodology and tools for parsing abstract information through semantic analysis and extracting visual information through visual mapping. Namely, as to abstract informations are represented as relational structure and then mapped into visual structure using regular rule, user can obtain visual information. We suggest VOLS(Visual Object Layout System) to transform a abstract information to visual information. It can improve user understandability and assist a maintenance for existing source code.

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Real-time Visual Tracking System and Control Method for Laparoscope Manipulator (복강경 수술용 도구의 실시간 영상 추적 및 복강경 조종기의 지능형 제어 방법)

  • 김민석;허진석;이정주
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2004
  • In this paper we present a new real-time visual servoing unit for laparoscopic surgery This unit can automatically control laparoscope manipulator through visual tracking of laparoscopic surgical tool. For the tracking, we present two-stage adaptive CONDENSATION(conditional density propagation) algorithm to extract the accurate position of the surgical tool tip from a surgical image sequence in real-time. This algorithm can be adaptable to abrupt change of laparoscope illumination. For the control, we present virtual damper system to control a laparoscope manipulator safely and stably. This system causes the laparoscope to move under constraint of the virtual dampers which are linked to the four sides of image. The visual servoing unit operates the manipulator in real-time with locating the surgical tool in the center of image. The experimental results show that the proposed visual tracking algorithm is highly robust and the controlled manipulator can present stable view with safe.

A 3D Audio-Visual Animated Agent for Expressive Conversational Question Answering

  • Martin, J.C.;Jacquemin, C.;Pointal, L.;Katz, B.
    • 한국정보컨버전스학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.53-56
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    • 2008
  • This paper reports on the ACQA(Animated agent for Conversational Question Answering) project conducted at LIMSI. The aim is to design an expressive animated conversational agent(ACA) for conducting research along two main lines: 1/ perceptual experiments(eg perception of expressivity and 3D movements in both audio and visual channels): 2/ design of human-computer interfaces requiring head models at different resolutions and the integration of the talking head in virtual scenes. The target application of this expressive ACA is a real-time question and answer speech based system developed at LIMSI(RITEL). The architecture of the system is based on distributed modules exchanging messages through a network protocol. The main components of the system are: RITEL a question and answer system searching raw text, which is able to produce a text(the answer) and attitudinal information; this attitudinal information is then processed for delivering expressive tags; the text is converted into phoneme, viseme, and prosodic descriptions. Audio speech is generated by the LIMSI selection-concatenation text-to-speech engine. Visual speech is using MPEG4 keypoint-based animation, and is rendered in real-time by Virtual Choreographer (VirChor), a GPU-based 3D engine. Finally, visual and audio speech is played in a 3D audio and visual scene. The project also puts a lot of effort for realistic visual and audio 3D rendering. A new model of phoneme-dependant human radiation patterns is included in the speech synthesis system, so that the ACA can move in the virtual scene with realistic 3D visual and audio rendering.

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Configuration of Audio-Visual System using Visual Image (이미지를 활용한 오디오-비쥬얼 시스템 구성)

  • Seo, June-Seok;Hong, Sung-Dae;Park, Jin-Wan
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.121-129
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    • 2008
  • With the help of information technology The problem of building a concrete form with a shapeless media is the starting point of presenting information by means of sound. Audio-Visual System using sound as a medium is a method that presents an auditory material visually and has a role of linking different sensory organs. In a sense, Audio-Visual System transfers a non-concrete sensation to a concrete one. Audio-Visual System presentation by late methods using active and non-active images produced by computerized irregular procedures can be limited because of the limited ways of visual output. On the other side, visualization using active images can induce more diverse expressions using sound as a medium. This study suggests a new way of expression in animations using visualization of various auditory materials and sounds built by Audio-Visual System with active images.