Abstract: Provided is an autonomous ship navigation apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a surrounding environment image, marine information, and navigation information, a map generation unit configured to generate a grid map by displaying topography, a host ship, and an obstacle corresponding to the marine information and the navigation information in the surrounding environment image, and a sailing method determination unit configured to determine a sailing method of a ship through deep reinforcement learning based on the grid map, the marine information, and the navigation information.

Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for reproducing tactile content using spatial information, which enhances a user’s tactile sense of music by converting a sound of music played in a space into tactile sense in real time without any sense of difference between tactile and auditory sense and automatically correcting tactile information by reflecting a user location and spatial characteristics so that performance or image information may be realized as tactile content using spatial information and the user location.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for sensory substitution and multi-path transmission of visual information. The apparatus for sensory substitution and multi-path transmission of visual information according to the present invention includes a target information extraction module configured to extract information of which a type corresponds to a type requested by a user from image information received from an external device on the basis of user input information, a sensory pathway determination module configured to determine one or more sensory pathways through which the information extracted based on the user input information is transmitted, a substitution signal generation module configured to convert the extracted information to generate substitution signals respectively corresponding to the one or more sensory pathways, and a control and output module configured to output the substitution signals through a sensory signal transmission device of the user.

Abstract: Provided is a method of analyzing multimodal user experience data for providing a psychological stability service, the method including: receiving multimodal user experience data collected on the basis of a user device that is predetermined; analyzing an association between the collected multimodal user experience data to identify whether a user is in a stressful situation; when the stressful situation is identified, analyzing a frequency pattern of the stressful situation of the user; recognizing stress context information about the stressful situation occurring to the user on the basis of the frequency pattern of the stressful situation; and providing the user device with a preemptive psychological stability service on the basis of the stress context information corresponding to the stressful situation.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for refining data and improving the performance of a behavior recognition model by reflecting time-series characteristics of a behavior. The apparatus includes: a data pre-processing unit configured to receive training data and real-time data as input, identify a missing value of sensor data, and interpolate the sensor data; a behavior recognition unit configured to, through a behavior recognition model, generate a behavior recognition classification result for the preprocessed real-time data; a data refinement unit configured to correct the behavior recognition classification result to generate a refined dataset; a learning model update unit configured to analyze a similarity of the refined dataset and, based on a result of the analysis, perform learning to generate the behavior recognition model; and an information output unit configured to express a corrected behavior recognition result to a user.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for sensory substitution based on depth-time mapping. The apparatus for sensory substitution based on depth-time mapping according to the present invention includes an image segmentation unit configured to generate a plurality of depth images by segmenting three-dimensional (3D) image information based on depth, a sensory substitution unit configured to generate pieces of sensory substitution information by converting at least any one of the plurality of depth images into preset sensory information, a depth-time mapping unit configured to map the sensory substitution information to a time axis based on depth information corresponding to the depth image, and an output unit configured to sequentially output the pieces of sensory substitution information in order mapped to the time axis.

Abstract: A sensory substitution method includes obtaining a color image by using a sensor device, converting color information about the color image, received from the sensor device, into tactile information by using a user terminal, and generating a tactile stimulus corresponding to the tactile information received from the user terminal by using a tactile output device.

Abstract: Provided are a sensory substitution control device and method. The sensory substitution device includes a reaction signal collector configured to collect a user's response or reaction signal to a sensory substitution signal received from a sensory substitution device, an environmental information collector configured to collect environmental information of the user who receives the substitution signal, a sensory substitution efficiency analyzer configured to analyze the user's sensory substitution efficiency delivered by the sensory substitution device on the basis of the collected environmental information and generate an adjustment signal for adjusting the substitution signal according to the sensory substitution efficiency, and an adjustment signal transmitter configured to provide a correction signal according to the analyzed environmental information-specific sensory substitution efficiency of the sensory substitution signal to the sensory substitution device.

Abstract: Provided is a sensory substitution apparatus and method that combines two or more pieces of multi-sense sensory information to be converted into different multi-sense sensory information, in which received pieces of multiple information are combined to suit sensory characteristics of the user's body and efficiently transmitted to a different sensory organ. According to the present invention includes: receiving input sensory information; classifying the input sensory information; calculating an importance of each of individual sensory information; determining a target sense for which part or all of the individual sensory information, of which an importance is calculated, is to be converted into a new sensory signal incongruent with the corresponding individual sense; and converting the input sensory information into target sensory information to be transmitted to the determined target sense which is an organ.

Abstract: Provided is an autonomous ship navigation apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a surrounding environment image, marine information, and navigation information, a map generation unit configured to generate a grid map by displaying topography, a host ship, and an obstacle corresponding to the marine information and the navigation information in the surrounding environment image, and a sailing method determination unit configured to determine a sailing method of a ship through deep reinforcement learning based on the grid map, the marine information, and the navigation information.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting a harmful video is provided. The apparatus includes an image collection unit configured to sample a video which is input, and collect N image frames (a natural number larger than or equal to 2) every predetermined period; an image analysis unit including M (a natural number larger than or equal to 2) analyzers, each analyzer analyzing a different characteristic of an image for determining harmfulness of the video; a scheduler configured to determine a plurality of analyzers for analyzing the collected N image frames among the M analyzers, and allocate at least one among the N image frames to each of the plurality of determined analyzers; and a harmfulness determination unit configured to integrate analysis results of the plurality of determined analyzers and determine the harmfulness of the video.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for generating evidence video. The apparatus includes a video object indexing unit, a video object search unit, and an evidence video generation unit. The video object indexing unit recognizes an object by storing and analyzing videos received from multiple surveillance cameras, extracts the features of the recognized object, and then generates object metadata. The video object search unit compares received search conditions with the object metadata, and then outputs search results, including the feature information of at least one object, which corresponds to the search conditions. The evidence video generation unit generates an evidence video by aggregating only videos including a specific object selected from the search results.

Abstract: A videotelephony image modulation apparatus and method detects an event having a possibility of information leakage by analyzing an image and provides a secured calling mode of masking all or a part of the image and transmitting a masked image obtained through the masking.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a harmless frame filter, a harmful image blocking apparatus having the filter, and a method for filtering harmless frames, which can rapidly identify clearly harmless images and exclude those harmless images in advance upon determining harmful image content including obscene images in real time, thus improving task efficiency. The harmless frame filter includes a primary filtering unit for extracting skin region candidate pixels from an input image, and primarily filtering harmless frames, based on a ratio of the skin region candidate pixels to the input image, and a secondary filtering unit for generating a Block Binary Pattern (BBP) histogram representing distribution characteristics of the skin region candidate pixels in a two-dimensional (2D) image space, and secondarily filtering harmless frames by comparing predefined learning data with the BBP histogram.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for extracting a skin area to block a harmful image. The apparatus includes an image extraction unit, a skin sample area extraction unit, a background sample area extraction unit, a probability density function computation unit, and a skin area extraction unit. The image extraction unit extracts an image from image media. The skin sample area extraction unit extracts a skin sample area of the image based on prior information. The background sample area extraction unit extracts a background sample area of the image based on the prior information. The probability density function computation unit calculates the probability density functions of the skin sample area and the background sample area. The skin area extraction unit extracts a skin area from the image based on the probability density function of the skin sample area and the probability density function of the background sample area.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an insider threat detection device and method which collects and analyzes a variety of information generated by insiders working for an organization, such as behaviors, events, and states of the insider, and detects an abnormal insider who may become a potential threat. According to the present invention, the insider threat detection method and apparatus analyzes information related to insiders using the correlation analysis method, and previously detects an abnormal sign of an insider who may become a potential threat to an organization, which makes it possible to protect the organization from attacks on systems inside the organization or seizure of important information inside the organization.

Abstract: A network monitoring system includes: a traffic information generating apparatus for generating traffic information. Further, the network monitoring system includes a security event collecting apparatus for collecting the traffic information generated by the traffic information generating apparatus by referring to pre-stored traffic information, grouping the collected traffic information, and then extracting service information. Furthermore, the network monitoring system includes a service abnormal condition detecting apparatus for detecting a port number of a transport layer of service information extracted from the security event collecting apparatus and the occurrence frequency of the transport layer, determining the continuity of the port number and the uniformity of the occurrence frequency, and displaying a service abnormal condition.

Abstract: A videotelephony image modulation apparatus and method detects an event having a possibility of information leakage by analyzing an image and provides a secured calling mode of masking all or a part of the image and transmitting a masked image obtained through the masking.

Abstract: Provided are an image processing method and method for privacy protection of a captured image. The image processing method divides an original image into a plurality of regions, assigns access privileges to the respective regions, and encrypts the regions, and provides an image by performing masking to each region or provides an image without performing masking, based on the access privilege of an image access request, and achieving privacy protection from the leakage of an original image. Accordingly, when storing a captured PC screen image and providing the stored image, an image region having no relation to a user's activities is stored after hierarchical encryption, preventing privacy infringement.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a screen includes a data reception unit configured to receive data and one or more events to be displayed on a screen; and a user input unit configured to provide input information attributable to manipulation of a user input device. Further, the apparatus for controlling the screen includes a screen control unit configured to determine whether to update or switch the screen based on the events and the input information.