• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.11-14
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• 1999

The forthcoming century will be the "era of cyber society" . In a virtual environment, a cyber character plays the role of an agent for the human being. In this paper, we introduce active researches of industries, universities, and research institutes in Korea. After Adam Soft Inc. presented a cyber singer,“Adam”, a few cyber characters have succeeded commercially through Internet, TV, CF, movies and etc. Some universities had their own characters to make fundamental researches in the fields of modeling, motion control, and VR. Research institutes have been funded recently to a cyber character related researches. This paper briefly reviews the recent research works, and future trends in Korea. in Korea.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.479-484
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 다중 사용자 간의 상호 작용과 공동 작업을 가능하게 하는 3차원 그래픽 기반의 가상 현실 시스템인 YVES(Yonsei Virtual Environment System) 의 성능향상을 위한 아바타 객체의 효과적인 동기화 방법에 대하여 제안하였다. YVES 는 연세대학교 컴퓨터과학과 멀티미디어 연구실에서 2001년도에 개발된 시스템이다. YVES의 사용자간 동기화 알고리즘은 기존의 방법에 비해 객체의 Poping현상을 없애고 동기화를 유지한 점에서 개선되었다고 할 수 있었다. 그러나 원래의 경로와는 변화된 다른 경로가 설정된다는 것과 이동이 완료되었을 때 수정된 경로로 향한 객체 진행 방향을 완료시점에서 원래의 진행방향으로 수정해야 항으로써 자연스럽지 못한 움직임을 보인다는 것이 문제점으로 지적되었다. 이를 보완하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 기존의 움직임 벡터를 새로 움직여야 할 움직임 벡터에 반영하여 새로운 경로가 원래의 경로와 보다 근접할 수 있도록 하고, 이동의 완료시점에서 객체가 향하는 방향이 원래 경로로 이동했을 경우와 동일하도록 하는 알고리즘을 제안하고, 각 알고리즘을 동일한 이동경로를 적용하여 비교하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.30-31
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• 2022

지속되는 팬데믹과 함께 비대면 시대가 개막 되었다. 따라서 사람과 사람사이 접촉을 최소화 하면서, 동시에 생활과 작업의 효율을 보장하는 시스템에 대한 수요가 사회의 이슈로 떠오르게 되었다. 이런 시대적 배경에 발 맞춰 회사생활 또한 급속한 변화를 이루어내고 있다. 그중에서 컴퓨터 비전과 그래픽스 기술의 눈부신 발전과 함께 온라인과 가상공간에서 업무를 보려고 하는 시도가 좋은 대안으로 세간의 주목을 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 가상공간에서 미팅을 진행 할 수 있는 가상 온라인 미팅 시스템과 이런 시스템을 구성하는데 제일 중요한 과제인 실감 3차원 아바타를 생성하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.340-342
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• 2021

흔히 DeepFake로 불리는 GAN 기술은 소스 영상과 타겟 이미지를 합성하여 타겟 이미지 내의 사람이 소스 영상에서 나타나도록 합성하는 기술이다. 이러한 GAN 기반 영상 합성 기술은 2018년을 기점으로 급격한 성장세를 보이며 다양한 산업에 접목되어지고 있으나 학습 모델을 얻는 데 걸리는 시간이 너무 오래 소요되고, 감정 표현을 인지하는 데 어려움이 있었다. 본 논문에서는 상기 두가지 문제를 해결하기 위해 Facial Action Coding System(FACS) 및 음성 합성 기술[4]을 적용한 가상 아바타 생성 방법에 대해 제안하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.633-635
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• 2021

현재 코로나 19로 인한 각종 지역특산품 축제가 축소 및 취소되어 지역발전에 저해 요인을 해결할 대책이 필요하다. 기존 특산품 축제의 문제점은 상품 품질의 우수성은 있지만, 접근성에 어려움이 있고 지속적인 정부의 방역지침으로 대면이 필수적인 특산품 경제에 타격을 입는다. 본 논문에서는 해당 문제를 해결하기 위해 비대면 메타버스형 VR 기술을 접목한 지역경제 및 관광 활성화를 제안한다. 해당 솔루션은 포톤서버를 활용한 실감형 체험 및 멀티접속을 구현하고 VR-Chatting 기술을 활용하여 대화로 시장 상품을 의견조율 가능한 시스템을 구현하였으며, 3D 아바타 모델링 기술을 활용해 지역별 특성화 캐릭터 제작 및 지역특산품 홍보로 기존 특산품 축제의 문제점을 해결하는 솔루션을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.19-39
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• 2023

Purpose This study aims to identify user experience factors that can enhance both metaverse utilization and satisfaction based on the honeycomb model. For this we presented two research questions: first, what are the experience factors of metaverse users? Second, do metaverse user experience factors impact satisfaction? Design/methodology/approach To address these questions, a mixed-methodology approach is employed, including text mining techniques to analyze online reviews and quantitative econometric analysis to reveal the relationship between user experience factors and satisfaction. A total of 69,880 reviews and ratings data were collected. Findings The analysis revealed eight metaverse user experience factors: entertainment, operability, virtual reality, immersion, economic activity, visual performance, avatar, and sociality, all of which were found to have a positive impact on user satisfaction.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.57-63
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• 2008

This study uses the identification which is one of the critical components of psychological mechanism and enables replacing one's own self because of the needs of self-expression(disclosure) and creation. The study aims to improve educational effects using the realistic by increasing sense of the virtual reality and the attention. After the computer-based contents were developed and converted to be applied into robot, and then the contents were combined the student's photo and the avatar using automatic loading. Finally each one of the contents was applied to the students. The results of the investigation indicated that there were significant effects of the contents based on identification. In other words, the contents effect on student's attention, but not their academic achievement. The study could find the effect of the identification's application using the educational robot. We suggested that improving technical ability of the augmented virtuality as a face-detection and sensitive interaction may lead to the specific suggestions for educational effects for further research.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.48-54
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• 2008

MMORPGs may involve a great number of concurrent players, and those servers usually have to manage hundred, or even thousands of avatars co-existing in the same virtual world. So if failing to send a command or an event message, or sending it too late may cause damages to the avatar evolution(death, injury, loss of resources), and may result in unjustified penalties for the player. Many policies could be defined to realize a ranking evaluation of available servers. Unfortunately, due to the highly dynamic characteristics of server loads and network performances, any optimal allocation would soon become sub-optimal. In order to solve those problems we propose the "time-interval based fairness partitioning method"(TIP). TIP will distribute the avatar to the game server equally with time-interval in order to avoid the problems form the unfairness of game servers load.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.550-558
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• 2004

Previous researches on scalability problem of distributed virtual environment (DVE) have been mainly focused on spatial partitioning of area of interest (AOI). Congestion phenomena by avatar groups in AOI have been neglected relatively However, AOI congestion is highly related to scalability of DVE because it exhausts system resources such as network bandwidth and rendering time, and could be a bar to perform collaboration among participants. In this paper, this will be defined as the problem that must be solved for the realization of the scalable DVE, and a model will be proposed to measure and control congestion situation in AOI. The purposes of the proposed model are to prevent high density of participants in AOI, and to protect stable collaboration in DVE. For evaluation of the performance it is compared with a previous method by defining the resource cost model which is dynamically activated to AOI congestion.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.47-65
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• 2017

This study is intended to compare an actual wedding dress being made completely through 3D software, and compare it with an actual dress of a real model by using collective tools for comparative analysis. The method of the study was conducted via a literature review along with the production of the dresses. In the production, two wedding dresses for the small wedding ceremony were designed. Each of the design was made into both 3D and an actual garment. The results are as follows. First, the 3D whole body scanner reflects the measure of the exact human body size, however there were some difficulties in matching what the customer wanted, because the difference of the skin color and the hair style. Second, the pattern of the dress is much more easily altered than it was in the real production. Third, the silhouette of the virtual and the actual person with the dress was nearly the same. Fourth, textile tool was much more convenient because of the use of real-time rendering on the virtual dresses. Lastly, the lace and biz decoration were flat, and the luster was duller than in reality. Prospectively, the consumer will decide their own design of variety through the use of the avatar without wearing the actual dresses, and they would demand what the another one desired, different from the presented ones by making the corrections by themselves. Through this process, the consumer would be actively participating in the design, a step which would finally lead to the two way designing rather than the one way design of present times.