Ajou University Industry Cooperation Foundation

Ajou University Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation

We Duke Cho

Yun Young Nam

Byoung Hoon Lee

Jai Hoon Kim

Sung Hwa Lim

Sun Taag Choe

Dong Wook Lee

Sang Jin Hong

Jin Seok Lee

Kyu Pil Lee

Jeong Tae Lee

Kyoung Su Park

Kyeong Chan Park

Jong Ik Lee

Uin Burn

Suck Chul Kim

Dong Sun Choi

Gyeong Ran Kang

Moo Rim Kim

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for calculating similarity of life log data, the method including: producing, by a life log data producing unit, a plurality of life log data on a daily basis, in which at least one estimated activity state is indicated for each predetermined time section, by matching a user's position information per time period and a user's motion state information per time period with an estimated activity table in which the user's estimated activity states are defined in advance; converting, by a modified life log data producing unit, the plurality of life logs data into a plurality of modified life log data which is indicated for each merged time section made by merging a preset number of continuous time sections; and calculating, by a similarity calculating unit, life log similarity among the plurality of modified life log data by comparing the plurality of modified life log data for each merged time section.

Method and apparatus for calculating similarity of life log data

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for calculating a meal period, the method including: calculating, by a wrist acceleration calculating unit, a wrist acceleration variation value which is a variation value of acceleration in respect to a motion of a user's wrist which is measured based on gravitational acceleration; calculating, by a wrist angle calculating unit, a wrist angle variation value which is a variation value of an angle to the user's wrist based on a gravitational direction by using the wrist acceleration variation value; detecting, by an eating behavior candidate pattern detecting unit, an eating behavior candidate pattern based on a predetermined reference by applying one or more threshold values to the wrist angle variation value; and calculating, by a meal period calculating unit, a meal period based on the number of times the eating behavior candidate pattern occurs.

Method and apparatus for calculating meal period

There is provided a ubiquitous monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensing nodes; one or more monitoring agents receiving and transmitting sensing data of the sensing nodes; a monitoring module receiving the sensing data from the one or more monitoring agents and managing the sensing data for each type and time; an analysis module deducing one of function information, performance information, and status information for each of smart objects in a ubiquitous space, based on the sensing data, deducing one of function information, performance information, and status information of a ubiquitous service performed by coupled smart objects, and transmitting a result of deduction; and a monitoring viewer displaying the result of deduction to a user.

Ubiquitous monitoring system capable of performing integral monitoring for smart objects

There are provided an automatic vision sensor placement apparatus and method which analyze static spatial information in various aspects, calculate priorities of spaces using an agent that models the movement pattern of a user, suggest a method of effectively covering a given space, provide a camera placement method to appropriately install cameras with various levels of performance in a specified space, and calculate the optimal number of cameras to be installed based on installation cost.

Automatic vision sensor placement apparatus and method

There is provided a method of localizing an object comprising projecting an object located on an object plane and a reference point corresponding thereto on a virtual viewable plane and an actual camera plane; estimating coordinates of the reference point; and prescribing a relationship between a location of the object and the coordinates of the reference point.

Method for object localization using visual images with reference coordinates

Provided are vision watching system and method for a safety hat. The vision watching system includes: a receiver which receives an image signal of a watching zone of a camera; a processor which determines whether an object of the image signal is a person, based on a size and an outline of the object and determines whether the person wears a safety hat, based on at least one or more of red (R), green (G), and blue (B) values of a head part of the person and a Hue value of Hue, Saturation, Value (HSV) of the head part; and a transmitter which outputs a Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) control signal of the camera to obtain a thumbnail image of the person when determining the person who does not wear the safety hat.

Vision watching system and method for safety hat

There is provided a ubiquitous monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensor nodes, one or more agent adapters receiving sensing data from the plurality of sensor nodes and determining to where the sensing data is transmitted according to one of characteristics of the plurality of sensing nodes and characteristics of the sensing data, one or more first monitoring agents receiving the sensing data from the agent adapter, one or more second monitoring agents receiving the sensing data from one of the agent adapter and the first monitoring agent, one or more third monitoring agents receiving the sensing data from one of the agent adapter and the second monitoring agent, and a monitoring engine receiving the sensing data from the third monitoring agent and monitoring the received sensing data.

Ubiquitous monitoring system

A system for supporting the diversity of a ubiquitous computing environment according to the present invention has a message bus including a message broker managing an intermediary role of delivering an actual message between the subsystems and a messaging adaptor managing an interface function between the message broker and the subsystems, wherein the messaging adaptor is installed in the subsystems and includes a first adaptor including a first application port for interfacing with the subsystems, and a second adaptor including a second application port for interfacing with the first adaptor and the broker port operating with the message broker.

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

We Duke Cho