• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.283-290
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• 2015

We proposed blink based online speller for the locked-in syndrome (LIS) patients, paralyzed in nearly all voluntary muscles expect for the eyes, with a simple and easy-to-use eye blink detection glasses. Electrooculogram (EOG) is the golden standard method of eye movement or blink measurement with Ag/AgCl electrodes. However, this method has several drawbacks such as skin irritation and dehydration of conductive gel. To resolve the shortcomings, we used a blink detection system based on a transparent capacitively coupled electrode, which is conductive indium tin oxide (ITO) films. The films make it possible to measure eye blink without direct skin contact and obstruction of field of view. We finally developed user-friendly blink based online speller with the blink detection system. To classify voluntary and non-voluntary blink, we used the double blink for command of the speller. The online speller experiment result with six healthy subjects shows that mean accuracy is 98.96% and letter per minute (LPM) is 4.73, which are better result by comparison with conventional P300 or auditory brain-computer interface (BCI) paradigm. The result of the experiment demonstrates the possibility of applying the proposed system as a communication method for the LIS patients.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.199-199
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• 2002

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.107-116
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• 2013

In the implementation of a P300 speller, rows and columns paradigm (RCP) is most commonly used. However, the RCP remains subject to adjacency-distraction error and double-flash problems. This study suggests a novel P300 speller stimuli presentation-the sub-block paradigm (SBP) that is likely to solve the problems effectively. Fifteen subjects participated in this experiment where both SBP and RCP were used to implement the P300 speller. Electroencephalography (EEG) activity was recorded from Fz, Cz, Pz, Oz, P3, P4, PO7, and PO8. Each paradigm consisted of a training phase to train a classifier and a testing phase to evaluate the speller. Eighteen characters were used for the target stimuli in the training phase. Additionally, 5 subjects were required to spell 50 characters and the rest of the subjects were to spell 25 characters in the testing phase. Classification accuracy results show that average accuracy was significantly higher in SBP as of 83.73% than that of RCP as of 66.40%. Grand mean event-related potentials (ERPs) at Pz show that positive peak amplitude for the target stimuli was greater in SBP compared to that of RCP. It was found that subjects tended to attend more to the characters in SBP. According to the participants' ratings on how comfortable they were with using each type of paradigm on 7-point Likert scale, most subjects responded 'very difficult' in RCP while responding 'medium' and 'easy' in SBP. The result showed that SBP was felt more comfortable than RCP by the subjects. In sum, the SBP was more correct in P300 speller performance as well as more convenient for users than the RCP. The actual limitations in the study were discussed in the last part of this paper.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.490-493
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• 2011

최근 사용자와 컴퓨터간의 상호작용이 가능한 사용자 인터페이스(UI, User Interface)에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이중 키보드나 마우스, 리모컨과 같은 별도의 입력장치가 없이 뇌의 활동으로부터 발생하는 생체신호를 이용하여 사용자의 생각만으로 컴퓨터와 커뮤니케이션을 할 수 있는 뇌만으로 컴퓨터와 커(BCI, Brain-Computer Interface) 시스템이 각광을 받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 뇌의 생체신호로는 뇌전도도(EEG, Electroencephalogram)를 사용하였으며, 이를 통하여 P300 speller 실험을 수행하였다. P300 speller 실험을 통하여 발생된 뇌전도도를 취합하여 P300(사건 관련 전위(ERP, Event-related potential)에서 자극 제시 약 300msec 후에 정점에 달하는 정파)을 분석하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.31-36
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• 2017

This study aims to develop an BCI speller utilizing eye-closed and double-blinking EEG based on asynchronous mechanism. The proposed system comprised a signal processing module and a graphical user interface (virtual keyboard-VK) with 26 English characters plus a special symbol. A detected "eye-closed" event induces the "select" command, whereas a "double-blinking" (DB) event functions the "undo" command. A three-class support vector machine (SVM) classifier involving EEG signal analysis of three groups of events ("eye-open"-idle state, "eye-closed", and "double -blinking") is proposed. The results showed that the proposed BCI could achieve an overall accuracy of 92.6% and a spelling rate of 5 letters/min on average. Overall, this study showed an improvement of accuracy and the spelling rate resulting from in the feasibility and reliability of implementing a real-world BCI speller.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.91-100
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• 2014

This study was to examine how visual angle of matrix corresponding to the physical properties of P300 speller and eye gaze corresponding to the user's personal characteristics influence on the accuracy of P300. Visual angle of the matrix was operated as the distance between the user and the matrix and three groups were composed: 60 cm group, 100 cm groups, and 150 cm group. Eye gaze methods was consisted three conditions. Head moving condition was putting eye gaze using head, pupil moving condition was moving pupil with the head fixed, while the eye fixed condition is to fix the eye gaze at the center of the matrix. The results showed that there was significant difference in the accuracy of P300 speller according to the eye gaze method. The accuracy of the head moving condition was higher than the accuracy of pupil moving conditions, accuracy of pupil moving conditions was higher than the accuracy of the eye fixed conditions. However, the effect of visual angle of matrix and interaction effect were not significant. When P300 amplitude of target character was measured depending on how you stare at the target character, P300 amplitude of the head moving condition was greater than P300 amplitude of the pupil moving condition. There was no significant difference in the error distribution in head moving condition and pupil moving condition, while there was a significant difference between two eye gaze conditions and fixed gaze condition. The error was located at the neighboring characters of the target character in head moving condition and pupil moving condition, while the error was relatively distributed widely in fixed eye condition, error was occurred with high rate in characters far away from the center of matrix.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.459-468
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• 1992

문서 속에서 나타나는 철자 오류는 맞춤법을 몰라서 잘못 쓴 경우와 자료 입력 과정에서 잘못 입력된 경우로 볼 수 있다. 이들 각각의 오류들에 대해 맞춤법 및 표준어 규칙을 비롯하여 한국어 자료의 통계적 분석을 통한 교정 기법을 제공하고자 한다. 본 논문은 철자 검사기가 틀리다고 판단한 오류 어절로부터 올바른 어절을 찾아서 교정해 주고 철자가 틀린 원인을 알려줄 수 있는 도움말 기능을 제공하는 철자 교정 시스템을 구현하고자 한다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.15-21
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• 2010

본 논문은 검색 서비스 기능 중에 빼놓을 수 없는 기능인 한글 검색 질의어(query) 교정 시스템을 '야후!'에서 구축하며 분석한 한글 오타 패턴 그리고 사용자 로그를 기반으로 설계한 질의어 교정 서비스에 대한 설명을 하고 있다. 이 교정 서비스는 현재 '야후! 코리아'에 적용되어 있으며, 한글을 고려한 키스트 로크를 기반으로 한 설계 방식 그리고 동적으로 에러모델을 구축하는 방법을 소개하고 있으며 또한 구축된 모델의 성능을 다른 검색 서비스와 비교한 결과를 소개한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.62-68
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• 2012

Steady-State Visually Evoked Potentials (SSVEP) are natural response signal associated with the visual stimuli with specific frequency. By using SSVEP, occipital lobe region is electrically activated as frequency form equivalent to stimuli frequency with bandwidth from 3.5Hz to 75Hz. In this paper, we propose an experimental paradigm for analyzing EEGs based on the properties of SSVEP. At first, an experiment is performed to extract frequency feature of EEGs that is measured from the image-based visual stimuli associated with specific objective with affordance and object-related affordance is measured by using mirror neuron system based on the frequency feature. And then, linear discriminant analysis (LDA) method is applied to perform the online classification of the objective pattern associated with the EEG-based affordance data. By using the SSVEP measurement experiment, we propose a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system for recognizing user's inherent intentions. The existing SSVEP application system, such as speller, is able to classify the EEG pattern based on grid image patterns and their variations. However, our proposed SSVEP-based BCI system performs object pattern classification based on the matters with a variety of shapes in input images and has higher generality than existing system.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.86-90
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• 1995

본 논문에서는 한 어절 단위에서 다수 어절 단위로 그 고려 영역을 확장한 개선된 철자 검사기를 제시한다. 개선된 철자 검사기는 1) 한 어절 철자 검사 교정부, 2) 언어 규칙 처리부, 3) 문장 부호 규칙 처리부로 구성된다. 한 어절 철자 검사 교정부는 기존의 철자 검사기와 같은 기능을 수행한다. 연어 규칙처리부는 형태소간의 연어 관계를 이용하여 7가지로 유형 분류된 어절 간 오류를 처리한다. 문장 부호 처리부는 문장 부호 자체의 오류와 문장 부호를 참조하여 좌우 어절들의 오류를 검사한다. 현재 256가지의 연이 규칙과 51가지의 문장 부호 규칙이 구축되어 있다. 본 논문에서 제시한 개선된 철자 검사기는 한국어 문체 검사기(Korean Style Checker) 로서 의의를 가지며, 형태소의 연어 정보는 향후 파싱 등의 문장 분석이나 의미 분석에 중요한 자료로 이용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.