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Implementing 360-degree VR Video Streaming System Prototype for Large-scale Immersive Displays (대형 가상현실 공연장을 위한 360 도 비디오 스트리밍 시스템 프로토타입 구현)

  • Ryu, Yeongil;Choi, YiHyun;Ryu, Eun-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.1241-1244
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    • 2022
  • 최근 K-Pop 을 위시한 예술공연 콘텐츠에 몰입형 미디어를 접목한 온택트 (Ontact) 미디어 스트리밍 서비스가 주목받고 있는 가운데, 본 논문은 일반적으로 사용되는 2D 디스플레이 또는 HMD (Head-Mounted Display) 기반 VR (Virtual Reality, VR) 서비스에서 탈피하여, 대형 가상현실 공연장을 위한 360 도 VR 비디오 스트리밍 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 Phase 1, 2, 3 의 연구개발 단계를 밟아 6DoF (Degrees of Freedom) 시점 자유도를 지원하는 360 도 VR 비디오 스트리밍 시스템을 개발하는 것을 최종목표로 하고 있으며, 현재는 Phase 1: 대형 가상현실 공연장을 위한 3DoF 360 도 VR 비디오 스트리밍 시스템 프로토타입의 개발까지 완료되었다. 구현된 스트리밍 시스템 프로토타입은 서브픽처 기반 Viewport-dependent 스트리밍 기술이 적용되어 있으며, 기존 방식과 비교하였을 때 약 80%의 비트율 감소, 약 543%의 영상 디코딩 속도 향상을 확인하였다. 또한, 단순 구현 및 성능평가에서 그치지 않고, 실제 미국 UCSB 에 위치한 대형 가상현실 공연장 AlloSphere 에서의 시범방송을 수행하여, 향후 Phase 2, 3 연구단계를 위한 연구적 기반을 마련하였다.

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Media Representation of Korean Modern Historical Incidents, and its Myth and Ideology: A Semiotic Approach on MBC-TV Documentary (한국 현대사의 미디어 재현과 신화 및 이데올로기: MBC-TV 다큐멘터리 <이제는 말할 수 있다>의 남북관련 이슈를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Gyu-Jeong;Baek, Seon-Gi
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.50
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    • pp.50-72
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate representation of media on Korean controversial historical incidents and its myth and ideology. Especially the authors paid attention to the MBC-TV Documentary which had dealt with many controversial issues in Korean society. Those issues had never been dealt by other Korean media before it began to do. Three episodes about the South-North Korea related issues were selected as main object of this study and were analyzed with various semiotic research methods, especially, paradigmatic analytical method, narrative analytic method and mythical analytic method. As a main result of this study, it was found that the Documentary tended to represent such controversial historical issues very differently from the previous representations of old newspapers'. Th e old newspapers tried to establish old myths; that is, 'myth of national crisis', 'myth of anti-communism', 'myth of scapegoat of college students', 'myth of intelligent agency's monopoly', 'myth of social stablization', etc, while the documentary changed to build up new myths; that is, 'myth of humanities', 'myth of peaceful unification', 'myth of freedom and democracy', 'myth of human rights, etc.' In short, it was concluded that the documentary was able to change some previous myths and ideologies through its changing representations.

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A Crisis in Public Broadcasting of South Korea A Perspective from the Case of the So-called "Paik Jong-moon's Taped Conversation" at MBC with a Focus on the Press Control by Political Power (MBC '백종문 녹취록' 사건으로 본 공영방송의 위기 정치권력의 언론 통제 기제를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Sang Gyoon
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.81
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    • pp.189-224
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    • 2017
  • The case of 'Paik Jong-moon's Taped Conversation,' has presented "an important and serious challenge to the freedom of the press and democracy" in South Korea. Nevertheless, this case has not been reported by the mainstream news media. It has also been forgotten without a proper fact-finding or investigation by regulatory agencies, like The Foundation for Broadcast Culture, The Korea Communications Commission, or The National Assembly. This study aims to examine why the above has happened through in-depth interviews of reporters and TV producers, senior journalists, former and incumbent commissioners of the broadcasting regulatory agencies, and experts of the industry, as well as literature research. Here, I present three answers. First, I found two reasons the mainstream press has ignored this incident. 1) It serves for political interests instead of reporting truth. 2) Public broadcasters' watchdog role has been neutralized. Second, regulatory agencies like The Foundation for Broadcast Culture, The Korea Communications Commission and The National Assembly are ruled by political tribalism. The ruling party's members of the National Assembly and these agencies were reluctant to investigate allegations surrounding Paik Jong-moon, such as illegal dismissals, illegal intervention in programming or production, illegal recruitment and illegal business deals. That's because they considered CEO Paik an ally. Using their majority power, they have rejected the request from opposition-affiliated commissioners or from opposition lawmakers to investigate the allegations. Third, there were no alternative forces within the public broadcasters to unveil the truth. In conclusion, the legal and institutional shake-up of corporate governance is urgently needed for public broadcasters and broadcasting regulatory agencies.

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Stereo Vision Based 3D Input Device (스테레오 비전을 기반으로 한 3차원 입력 장치)

  • Yoon, Sang-Min;Kim, Ig-Jae;Ahn, Sang-Chul;Ko, Han-Seok;Kim, Hyoung-Gon
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.429-441
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    • 2002
  • This paper concerns extracting 3D motion information from a 3D input device in real time focused to enabling effective human-computer interaction. In particular, we develop a novel algorithm for extracting 6 degrees-of-freedom motion information from a 3D input device by employing an epipolar geometry of stereo camera, color, motion, and structure information, free from requiring the aid of camera calibration object. To extract 3D motion, we first determine the epipolar geometry of stereo camera by computing the perspective projection matrix and perspective distortion matrix. We then incorporate the proposed Motion Adaptive Weighted Unmatched Pixel Count algorithm performing color transformation, unmatched pixel counting, discrete Kalman filtering, and principal component analysis. The extracted 3D motion information can be applied to controlling virtual objects or aiding the navigation device that controls the viewpoint of a user in virtual reality setting. Since the stereo vision-based 3D input device is wireless, it provides users with a means for more natural and efficient interface, thus effectively realizing a feeling of immersion.

Journalist Song Kun-Ho's Ideas of Korean Journalism (언론 민주화의 위기와 송건호의 언론사상)

  • Kim, Su-Jeong;Lee, Jin-Ro
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.60
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    • pp.5-27
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to explore the journalist Song Kun-Ho's ideas of Korean Journalism. The journalist Song Kun-Ho was born in 1926 and passed away in 2001. He became a reporter in 1953 when he was a student at department of law of Seoul National University. He has worked for several media and resigned the executive editor at the Dong Ah Ilbo in 1975. At that time, while many reporters of the Dong Ah Ilbo struggled for the freedom of the press, he tried to protect reporters and independence of media. After his resignation of the executive editor, he wrote many columns and several books for Korean nationalism and the democracy of journalism. Instead of working for the authoritarian military regime, he chose a lonely and rough life as an intellectual journalist in action. Finally, he, as a president, established the Hankyoreh daily newspaper which was funded by tens of thousands citizens. He passed away in 2001. His ideas of Korean journalism are nationalism, democracy, and independency. These ideas are very important to restore democratic journalism which has been at risk during the Lee Myung-bak administration.

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Discussions on the Reconstruction of Visual Illusion in Dynamic Images - Take of Paul Sermon as an example (다이나믹 이미지 예술 중 착시의 재구성에 관한 연구 - 폴 셔먼의 을 중심으로)

  • GAO, XIAOYA;Paik, Joonki
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.10
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    • pp.189-201
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    • 2021
  • The art of dynamic images has experienced three development stages, including experimental films, recording art, and new media image. By introducing all kinds of new materials, new media to the art, and the art of dynamic images has created more freedom for art creation. With the development of digital information technology, dynamic image works have put forward an increasingly high requirement of visual art. The combination of dynamic images and visual illusion can give rise to different forms and expression methods, thus endowing artworks with more vigor. This paper provides an overview by sorting out the lineage and development of dynamic images in the background, as well as understanding the application and performance of contrasted visual illusion. Based on the understanding of the characteristics of visual illusion, we discuss the new characteristics of applying the theory of visual illusion to new media dynamic images in relation to the technical approach of dynamic images. Through the analysis of specific works of Telematic Vision, we search for its reasonable combination and find the appropriate technical means of implementation. We discuss how to use digital multimedia technology and spatial optical illusion to make the design more novel and impactful, and consider how the combination of digital dynamic image technology and visual illusion should be interpreted and applied.

The Press Coverage of the Cyber Defamation Laws: Framing Effects of Core Values and Attributional Patterns (사이버모욕죄 보도의 프레이밍 효과: 핵심 가치와 귀인 양식을 중심으로)

  • Hur, Suk-Jae;Min, Young
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.52
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    • pp.48-68
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    • 2010
  • In covering the controversies surrounding the so-called cyber defamation laws, the Korean press offered competitive frames in terms of values (security vs. freedom of speech) and attributional patterns (episodic vs. thematic attribution). By attending to core values and attributional patterns as two essential components of news frames, this study explored the cognitive and affective processes of value and attributional framing and their effects on issue opinion. According to a 3-group online experiment, first, it was found that core values increased the perceived importance of relevant beliefs, which further affected individuals' attitudes toward the laws. The affective effects of core values were also found marginally significant. The value of security increased the intensity of anger toward deviant netizens (so-called defamatory repliers), and it further increased individuals' support for the laws. It was not substantiated, however, that individualistic attribution, than social attribution, would provoke stronger anger toward defamatory repliers. Instead, episodic frames appeared to be more effective in driving issue opinion as indicated by the value frame.

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Group-based Adaptive Rendering for 6DoF Immersive Video Streaming (6DoF 몰입형 비디오 스트리밍을 위한 그룹 분할 기반 적응적 렌더링 기법)

  • Lee, Soonbin;Jeong, Jong-Beom;Ryu, Eun-Seok
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.216-227
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    • 2022
  • The MPEG-I (Immersive) group is working on a standardization project for immersive video that provides 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF). The MPEG Immersion Video (MIV) standard technology is intended to provide limited 6DoF based on depth map-based image rendering (DIBR) technique. Many efficient coding methods have been suggested for MIV, but efficient transmission strategies have received little attention in MPEG-I. This paper proposes group-based adaptive rendering method for immersive video streaming. Each group can be transmitted independently using group-based encoding, enabling adaptive transmission depending on the user's viewport. In the rendering process, the proposed method derives weights of group for view synthesis and allocate high quality bitstream according to a given viewport. The proposed method is implemented through the Test Model for Immersive Video (TMIV) test model. The proposed method demonstrates 17.0% Bjontegaard-delta rate (BD-rate) savings on the peak signalto-noise ratio (PSNR) and 14.6% on the Immersive Video PSNR(IV-PSNR) in terms of various end-to-end evaluation metrics in the experiment.

Use of Protective Gloves in Nail Salons in Manhattan, New York City

  • Basch, Corey;Yarborough, Christina;Trusty, Stephanie;Basch, Charles
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.249-251
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    • 2016
  • Objectives: Nail salon owners in New York City (NYC) are required to provide their workers with gloves and it is their responsibility to maintain healthy, safe working spaces for their employees. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency with which nail salon workers wear protective gloves. Methods: A Freedom of Information Law request was submitted to New York Department of State's Division of Licensing Services for a full list of nail salons in Manhattan, NYC. A sample population of 800 nail salons was identified and a simple random sample (without replacement) of 30% (n=240) was selected using a random number generator. Researchers visited each nail salon from October to December of 2015, posing as a potential customer to determine if nail salon workers were wearing gloves. Results: Among the 169 salons in which one or more workers was observed providng services, a total of 562 workers were observed. For 149 salons, in which one or more worker was observed providing services, none of the workers were wearing gloves. In contrast, in six of the salons observed, in which one or more workers was providing services, all of the workers (1 in 2 sites, 2 in 1 site, 3 in 2 sites, and 4 in 1 site) were wearing gloves. Almost three-quarters of the total number of workers observed (n=415, 73.8%) were not wearing gloves. Conclusions: The findings of this study indicate that, despite recent media attention and legislation, the majority of nail salon workers we observed were not wearing protective gloves when providing services.

On Parameterizing of Human Expression Using ICA (독립 요소 분석을 이용한 얼굴 표정의 매개변수화)

  • Song, Ji-Hey;Shin, Hyun-Joon
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, a novel framework that synthesizes and clones facial expression in parameter spaces is presented. To overcome the difficulties in manipulating face geometry models with high degrees of freedom, many parameterization methods have been introduced. In this paper, a data-driven parameterization method is proposed that represents a variety of expressions with a small set of fundamental independent movements based on the ICA technique. The face deformation due to the parameters is also learned from the data to capture the nonlinearity of facial movements. With this parameterization, one can control the expression of an animated character's face by the parameters. By separating the parameterization and the deformation learning process, we believe that we can adopt this framework for a variety applications including expression synthesis and cloning. The experimental result demonstrates the efficient production of realistic expressions using the proposed method.

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