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Of Scent and Sensibility: Embodied Ways of Seeing in Southeast Asian Cultures

  • Ly, Boreth
    • SUVANNABHUMI
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.63-91
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    • 2018
  • One of the goals of this article is to continue the momentum begun by emerging scholarship on theory and practice of writing about visual culture of and in Southeast Asia. I hope to offer culturally sensitive and embodied ways of looking at images and objects as sites/sights of cultural knowledge as further theoretical intervention. The argument put forward in my essay is three-fold: first, I critique the prevailing logocentric approach in the field of Southeast Asian Studies and I argue that in a postcolonial, global, and transnational period, it is important to be inclusive of other objects as sites/sights of social, political and cultural analysis beyond written and oral texts. Second, I argue that although it has its own political and theoretical problems, the evolving field of Visual Studies as it is practiced in the United States is one of many ways to decolonize the prevailing logocentric approach to Southeast Asian Studies. Third, I argue that if one reads these Euro-American derived theories of vision and visuality through the lens of what Walter Mignolo calls "colonial difference(s)," then Visual Studies as an evolving field has the potential to offer more nuanced local ways of looking at and understanding objects, vision, and visuality. Last, I point out that unlike in the West where there is an understanding of pure, objective and empirical vision, local Southeast Asian perspectives on objects and visions are more embodied and multi-sensorial. I argue that if one is ethically mindful of the local cultural ways of seeing and knowing objects, then the evolving field of Visual Studies offers a much-needed intervention to the privileged, lingering logocentric approach to Southeast Asian Studies. Moreover, these alternative methods might help to decolonize method and theory in academic disciplines that were invented during the colonial period.

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The Development of Disaster Prevention Information System Using Internet GIS (Internet GIS를 이용한 방재정보시스템 구축)

  • Yeo, Woon-Ki;Jang, Kyung-Soo;Jeon, Ji-Young;Jee, Hong-Kee
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.620-623
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study is developing a disaster prevention information system using Internet GIS to manage disaster information more efficiently and timely. This system has good potential with environment of Internet which has appropriate characteristics of rapidity, wide reach, generality, cost effectivity for disaster management. With this system, general user can easily retrieve disaster information with visuality such as maps. graphs, and texts just by using web browsers. Hence the need of developing Internet GIS system for disaster prevention is growing in these days.

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ENHANCED EXEMPLAR BASED INPAINTING USING PATCH RATIO

  • KIM, SANGYEON;MOON, NAMSIK;KANG, MYUNGJOO
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.91-100
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we propose a new method for template matching, patch ratio, to inpaint unknown pixels. Before this paper, many inpainting methods used sum of squared differences(SSD) or sum of absolute differences(SAD) to calculate distance between patches and it was very useful for closest patches for the template that we want to fill in. However, those methods don't consider about geometric similarity and that causes unnatural inpainting results for human visuality. Patch ratio can cover the geometric problem and moreover computational cost is less than using SSD or SAD. It is guaranteed about finding the most similar patches by Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. For ignoring unnecessary process, we compare only selected candidates by priority calculations. Exeperimental results show that the proposed algorithm is more efficent than Criminisi's one.

Adaptive Culling Mechanism for Weather Phenomena Effect in Flight Simulator (항공시뮬레이터에서 기상 효과를 위한 적응적 컬링기법)

  • Cha, YoungJun;Kim, JongBum;Kim, Ki-Il
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.61-66
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    • 2014
  • Temporal disappearance of weather phenomena effect is frequently observed in flight simulator when large volume of terrain data are processed. This problem was solved by employing culling scheme at static ratio in the existing scheme. However, since this approach causes the irregular rendering speed according to volume of data, it is necessary to develop a new culling scheme to maintain steady rendering speed by adjusting the culling ratio dynamically. In this paper, we propose a new culling scheme to make use of distance of the visibility to determine culling ratio depending on volume of terrain data. The experimental results show that rendering speed is preserved by the proposed scheme without affecting the visuality at rendering the scene and weather phenomena effect together.

Visual Perceptive Function of Isotype for Train - Focused on FRT applied design concept - (철도차량의 아이소타이프가 지닌 시지각적 역할과 디자인 사례-FRT 적용 디자인 컨셉트를 중심으로-)

  • Jin Mi-Ja
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.1737-1744
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    • 2004
  • Isotype should be carried out together with the function of explaining procedures, processes, usages, etc. accurately. Because it is a semitic semantic-information-intensive object as an representative example of non-verbal communication, it must meet formative conditions for conveying the various meanings of symbolic contents retained in it suggestively. In this way isotype is a common language with visuality, attention and universality, expressing definite contents in specific images. That is, it is necessary to establish a visual perceptive standard, design guidelines and required conditions and to implement systematically by stipulating rules for management. Thus isotype used in FRT, which is designed for easy perception of concepts, procedures, methods, structures, etc., can contain all factors used in the expression of information.

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Legibility & Recognition of Signs for Train Station (철도역 사인의 가독성과 픽토그램의 인지성 증대에 관한 연구)

  • 한석우;진미자
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.66-72
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    • 2003
  • Railway sign(graphic sign, diagraphics) designs require good recognition with universality to transmit accurate and speedy information as they connect people around the station and other transport systems. An important point of signs is how to design and deliver the contents to the viewers as a communication service tools. It needs to establish design guidelines with standardization and unified system to show their contents and images clearly like common language with visuality, attractivity and generality. These requisites are important for both aesthetics legibility and unified standards to maximize the effectiveness of pictograms for the use of the general public, who require systematic suggestion and management.

A Study on The Relationship with Nature in the Layout and Plan of Contemporary Suburban House (전원주택 배치와 평면에서의 자연 연계성에 관한 고찰)

  • Choi, Jong-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.54-61
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    • 2006
  • Contemporary Suburban House is a kind of 'Urban House in nature' that urban middle class peoples elect voluntarily to raise life quality and make their own identity. Therefore, 'The Relationship with Nature' is an essential item in the design of Suburban House. But in the site plan of Suburban House, 'The Nature' as outdoor space is only the rest of the indoor space. The outdoor space is hold in common visually but not actually. 'The Nature' is not a labour ground as the case in rural society but a background of village. The plan of Suburban House is based on the urban apartment plan. So in plan, 'The Nature' is also an object for contemplation as the case in urban house. The outline of the plan as a border line between indoor space and outdoor space is controlled uniformally and 'The Nature' is linked only visually in the direction the resident wants to see.

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Legibility & Recognition of Signs for Train Station (철도역을 위한 사인의 가독성과 픽토그램의 의미작용에 관한 연구)

  • Han Suk-Woo;Jin Mi-Ja
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.176-184
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    • 2003
  • Railway sign(graphic sign, diagraphics) designs require good recognition with universality to transmit accurate and speedy information as they connect people around the station and other transport systems. An important point of signs is how to design and deliver the contents to the viewers as a communication service tools. It needs to establish design guidelines with standardization and unified system to show their contents and images clearly like common language with visuality, attractivity and generality. These requisites are important for both aesthetics legibility and unified standards to maximize the effectiveness of pictograms for the use of the general public, who require systematic suggestion and management.

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Visualization of Air Quality based on the IMPROVE Models (IMPROVE 모델에 근거한 대기질의 시각화)

  • Kim, Tae-Sik
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.299-307
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    • 2009
  • It is well-known that the scenic visibility achieved in our naked eyes is related with the quality of aerosol condition which is composed of primary and secondary air pollutants. In recent, the IMPROVE organization in U.S.A. has developed two algorithms to estimate the visible length depending on the elements of air pollutant. Using these algorithms, we are to represent the condition of aerosol quality with the well-known scenic images of the observing area so that any one that have no sufficient chemical knowledge may feel and understand the level of air pollution in visuality.

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The Effect of Demographic Factors on Children' Wear Buying Pattern, Media and Information Utilization, and Design Preference (paper no.2)

  • Koo, In-Sook
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.170-187
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    • 2010
  • This paper is to analyze the effect of demographic factors on children' wear buying pattern, media and information utilization, and design preference. A total of 355 usable data was collected from house wives in three metropolitan cities(Seoul, Daejon, Bundang) in Korea. Correlation analysis showed that there were statistically significant correlation between demographic factors and clothing buying behavior, information utilization, and design preference. Also, Regression results showed that 8 Demographic Factors are significant predictors. The results with ANOVA showed that there were significant relationships between PURCHASE OCCASION and DISPLAY INFORMATION UTILIZATION, and showed that there were significant relationships (F=28.625, p=<.001) between PURCHASE MOTIVATION and SALES PERSON ADVICES UTILIZATION. Thus, both visuality and friendliness of service were affected by consumers. Considering the increasing importance of service quality in the retail VMD, sale promotion should be enhanced and sale person is needed to be trained to be friendly to all consumers regardless of product composition