스포츠 이벤트 개최가 개최도시에 대한 개인의 신념에 미치는 영향: 이벤트규모와 개최도시 친밀도의 상호작용을 중심으로

김기한 ( Ki Han Kim ),방신웅 ( Shin Woong Bang ) 한국스포츠산업경영학회 2010 한국스포츠산업경영학회지 Vol.15 No.6

본 연구는 추론(inference)이론을 바탕으로 스포츠 이벤트의 규모와 개최도시 친밀도의 상호작용에 따른 스포츠 이벤트 개최가 개최도시에 대한 신념에 미치는 영향 및 개최도시에 대한 신념이 도시방문 의도에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 구체적으 로, 개최도시의 친밀도가 낮은 경우에는 대규모 이벤트를 개최하는 것이 소규모 이벤트를 개최하는 것보다 개최도시에 대한 신념의 구성요인이 긍정적으로 평가 받을 것으로 예측하였고, 이에 반해 개최도시 친밀도가 높을 경우에는 이벤트 규모가 개 최도시에 대한 신념에 유의한 영향을 미치지 않을 것으로 예측하였다. 한편 개최도시에 대한 신념이 방문의도에도 긍정적인 영향을 미칠 것으로 예측하였다. 가설검증을 위해 2(이벤트규모: large vs small) × 2(도시친밀도: familiar vs unfamiliar) 요인 실험설계를 실시하였다. 연구결과 개최도시에 대한 신념의 세부 요인(경제적 풍요성, 생활안전성, 관광유인성, 이벤트 유치역 량) 중 생활안전성을 제외한 3가지 요인에 대하여 가설이 지지되었다. 한편 연구결과의 학문적.실무적 시사점이 논의되었고 향후연구 방향이 제시되었다. This study examines the influence of hosting a sporting event on the public’s beliefs about the event-hosting city, as well as the impact on the public’s intention to visit the city. Based upon inference theory, it was predicted that the public is capable of going beyond the obvious information available at the time of a decision, such as the names of the hosting-city and the events, and making inferences about the event-hosting city. In particular, it was hypothesized that, all else being equal, hosting a large-scale sporting event, as opposed to small-scale events, would improve the perceptions of the event-hosting city’s economic capability, the appropriateness as a tourism site, the safety of the city, and its event-hosting competence; such improvement in the perceptions of the event-hosting city was predicted to be much greater when the event-hosting city was unfamiliar, rather than familiar. It was also predicted that the enhancement in the perceptions of the event-hosting city would positively influence the public’s intention to visit the city. Overall, the results of a 2-by-2 full factorial experiment are consistent with the hypotheses. Implications, limitations and future research direction are discussed.

이벤트 요소가 잠재참가자의 태도 및 참가의사에 미치는 영향

정형식(Hyung Shik Jung),김영심(Young Shim Kim) 한국경영학회 2004 經營學硏究 Vol.33 No.1

This research investigates the effects of the operating party factor of a public event, event characteristics, and individual factors on the potential participants` attitude toward the event and their participation intention. Regrading to a specific event, namely the Korean National Beauty Design Competition, a survey was administered to the hair designers who were working in the hair shops with various levels of work experience and positions. The results of the empirical findings are as follows: First. the respondents` benefits in the event was found to influence their attitude toward the event while their perception on the direct benefits through the participation to the event was not. Second, the respondents` knowledge of the competition event and their perceptions of practical utilization of the skill acquired in the event were found to affect the individuals` attitude toward the event. Third, the individual`s attitude toward the event was found to affect his or her participation intentions positively. Forth, the individual’s subjective norms were found to affect his or her attitude toward the event, rather than affect the participation intention directly. In addition, there were several differences in the perception on the performance of the event operation between the experienced group and the non-experienced group.

이벤트 품질, 가치, 태도, 그리고 행동의도 간 구조적 영향관계 분석

윤설민 ( Seol Min Yoon ),오선영 ( Sun Young Oh ) 한국고객만족경영학회 2015 고객만족경영연구 Vol.17 No.2

본 연구의 목적은 이벤트 품질, 가치, 태도, 그리고 행동의도 간 영향관계를 검증하는 것이다. 이러한 목적 달성을 위해 현장조사는 부산국제수산무역엑스포의 방문객들에게 진행되었다. 분석 결과 이벤트 품질의 구성개념들 중 프로그램과 환경이 이벤트의 기능적 가치에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 반면에 모든 이벤트 품질의 구성개념들(프로그램, 환경, 위치)은 이벤트의 감정적 가치에정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 특히 프로그램은 환경과 위치에 비해 이벤트의 감정적 가치를 설명함에 있어서 더 중요한 변인임이 발견되었다. 또한 이벤트의 기능적 가치와 감정적 가치는 이벤트 태도에 정(+)의 영향을 미치고, 이후 이벤트 태도는 목적지 태도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 이벤트 태도에 대한 영향에 있어서 이벤트의 감정적 가치는 기능적 가치보다 더 강한 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 이벤트 태도와 목적지 태도는 행동의도에 긍정적으로 연관이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 행동의도를 설명하는 변인들 간 중요성에 따르면 이벤트 태도가 첫 번째이며, 이어서 목적지 태도로 나타났다. 이러한 결과들을 토대로 학술적·실무적 시사점은 결론부분에 더 논의되었다. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect relationships among event quality, value, attitude, and behavioral intention. To this end, onsite survey was conducted for visitors to the Busan International Seafood & Fisheries EXPO. The analysis results indicate that program and environment of event quality constructs had a positive effect on functional value of event, whereas all event quality constructs(program, environment, location) had a positive effect on emotional value of event. Particularly, program was found more important variable than environment and location in explaining emotional value of event. Also, functional value and emotional value of event had a positive effect on attitude toward event which in turn, influenced on attitude toward destination. Meanwhile, emotional value of event was stronger than functional value in influencing attitude toward event. Finally, attitude toward event and attitude toward destination appeared to be positively related to behavioral intention. According to importance among variables explaining behavioral intention, attitude toward event was first, followed by attitude toward destination. Based on these findings, academical and practical implications were further discussed in the concluding section.

복합 이벤트 처리 시스템 개발을 위한 ECA 규칙 기반 이벤트 중심 아키텍처 설계

한관희 ( Kwan Hee Han ),이준우 ( Jun Woo Lee ) (주)엘지씨엔에스(구 LGCNS 엔트루정보기술연구소) 2012 Entrue Journal of Information Technology Vol.11 No.3

최근의 급변하는 경영 환경 변화는 대부분의 기업에게 시장과 고객 요구 변화에 대한 실시간 이벤트 감지와 모니터링 및 문제 해결을 위한 신속한 의사 결정과 민첩한 대응을 요구하고 있다. 이러한 과제를 해결하기 위해 많은 기업에서 복합 이벤트 처리 시스템의 개발과 도입이 급증하고 있으며, 복합 이벤트 처리 시스템의 개발을 위한 EDA(Event-Driven Architecture)도 다수 제안되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존에 제안된 EDA에서의 이벤트 채널 및 이벤트 처리 에이전트를 단순화한 ECA(Event-Condition-Action) 규칙 기반의 이벤트 중심 아키텍처를 제안한다. 제안된 아키텍처는 ECA 규칙을 패턴화하여 ECA 규칙을 구성하는 세 가지 파트(E-C-A) 내의 서브 구성 요소들의 조합으로 이벤트 처리를 정의한다. 또한, 제안된 아키텍처를 구현한 이벤트 처리 시스템 프로토타입을 개발하고 이의 적합성을 사례 연구를 통해 검증하였다. 본 연구에서 제안한 EDA는 ECA 규칙 기반의 이벤트 처리 시스템 개발을 용이하게 할 것으로 기대한다. Nowadays most enterprises have a challenging task of processing various complex events to adapt to current rapid envi-ronmental changes. To cope with this challenge, the development and introduction of complex event processing system are ever increasing in most enterprises, and several EDA (Event Driven Architecture) were presented within last decade by academies and software vendors. Proposed in this paper is a simplified ECA (Event-Condition-Action) rule-based EDA, in which event processing is defined by combining sub-elements of each event, condition and action component of ECA rule pattern. In this paper, complex event processing prototype system called AProCE is developed based on the proposed EDA architecture, and the suitability of proposed architecture is verified through the case study using prototype system. Proposed EDA architecture will facilitate the development of ECA rule-based complex event processing system.

Event Valence Matters: Investigating the Moderating Role of Event Valence on Event Markers' Systematic Effect

Lee, Hyejin,Choi, Jinhee Korean Marketing Association 2014 ASIA MARKETING JOURNAL Vol.16 No.4

Previous research has revealed that people feel past target events are more distant when they recall more intervening events, event markers, that are both accessible in memory and perceived to be related to that target event (Zauberman, Levav, Diehl, and Bhargave 2010). This phenomenon was called the systematic effect of event markers (SEEM). In this research, we explore the moderating effect of the valence of the target event on SEEM and suggest the difficulty of recalling event markers as the possible mechanism. Study 1 shows that SEEM mainly occur when the valence of the target event is negative rather than positive. Study 2 showed that even though people have more difficulty recalling four event markers than one regardless of event valence, the difficulty of recalling event markers only mediates SEEM when the target event valence is negative. Furthermore, when the target event is positive, SEEM does not exist, confirming that the mediating role of the difficulty of recalling event markers on SEEM is moderated by the valence of the target event.

사건과 해체

이은주(Eun-Joo Lee) 연세대학교 신과대학(연합신학대학원) 2012 신학논단 Vol.68 No.-

This paper gives an analytic account of John D. Caputo’s theological hermeneutics on ‘event,’ which defines postmodern theology as the theology of event in a radical way. John D. Caputo is known as a Derridean theologian working on postmodern deconstructive theology. Postmodern thinkers have developed various ways of hermeneutics on the eventiality of event in place of modern metaphysical meta-narratives, and they try to reconstruct the philosophy (theology) of event in light of simulacre, possibility, alterity, poetics, excess, and deconstruction. John D. Caputo, adopting the productive results of postmodern account of event, attempts to systematize it in the direction of deconstructive hermeneutics of event. Also he suggests a theological necessity to revise traditional strong theology in relation to the theology of event. This paper can be divided into three parts: first, the paper explains Caputo’s hermeneutics of event with respect to its relation with the divine name. Second, the paper draws on Caputo’s notions of the evential characteristics asking how Caputo theologically develops Derrida’s diffe?rance and ‘weak theology.’ In this part the paper also displays a political-ethical implication of Caputo’s deconstructive hermeneutics of event. Third, under the title of ‘the impossible and poetics’ the paper shows how Caputo relates deconstructive event to the divine Kingdom in that events bring the impossible into the world as a messenger of Kingdom, and it deals with the reason to take theo-poetics instead of theo-logics since he sees it as a most appropriate way to express the alterity of the Kingdom. This paper gives an analytic account of John D. Caputo’s theological hermeneutics on ‘event,’ which defines postmodern theology as the theology of event in a radical way. John D. Caputo is known as a Derridean theologian working on postmodern deconstructive theology. Postmodern thinkers have developed various ways of hermeneutics on the eventiality of event in place of modern metaphysical meta-narratives, and they try to reconstruct the philosophy (theology) of event in light of simulacre, possibility, alterity, poetics, excess, and deconstruction. John D. Caputo, adopting the productive results of postmodern account of event, attempts to systematize it in the direction of deconstructive hermeneutics of event. Also he suggests a theological necessity to revise traditional strong theology in relation to the theology of event. This paper can be divided into three parts: first, the paper explains Caputo’s hermeneutics of event with respect to its relation with the divine name. Second, the paper draws on Caputo’s notions of the evential characteristics asking how Caputo theologically develops Derrida’s diffe?rance and ‘weak theology.’ In this part the paper also displays a political-ethical implication of Caputo’s deconstructive hermeneutics of event. Third, under the title of ‘the impossible and poetics’ the paper shows how Caputo relates deconstructive event to the divine Kingdom in that events bring the impossible into the world as a messenger of Kingdom, and it deals with the reason to take theo-poetics instead of theo-logics since he sees it as a most appropriate way to express the alterity of the Kingdom.

텍스트 마이닝 기법을 적용한 뉴스 데이터에서의사건 네트워크 구축

이민철,김혜진 한국지능정보시스템학회 2018 지능정보연구 Vol.24 No.1

News articles are the most suitable medium for examining the events occurring at home and abroad. Especially, as the development of information and communication technology has brought various kinds of online news media, the news about the events occurring in society has increased greatly. So automatically summarizing key events from massive amounts of news data will help users to look at many of the events at a glance. In addition, if we build and provide an event network based on the relevance of events, it will be able to greatly help the reader in understanding the current events. In this study, we propose a method for extracting event networks from large news text data. To this end, we first collected Korean political and social articles from March 2016 to March 2017, and integrated the synonyms by leaving only meaningful words through preprocessing using NPMI and Word2Vec. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling was used to calculate the subject distribution by date and to find the peak of the subject distribution and to detect the event. A total of 32 topics were extracted from the topic modeling, and the point of occurrence of the event was deduced by looking at the point at which each subject distribution surged. As a result, a total of 85 events were detected, but the final 16 events were filtered and presented using the Gaussian smoothing technique. We also calculated the relevance score between events detected to construct the event network. Using the cosine coefficient between the co-occurred events, we calculated the relevance between the events and connected the events to construct the event network. Finally, we set up the event network by setting each event to each vertex and the relevance score between events to the vertices connecting the vertices. The event network constructed in our methods helped us to sort out major events in the political and social fields in Korea that occurred in the last one year in chronological order and at the same time identify which events are related to certain events. Our approach differs from existing event detection methods in that LDA topic modeling makes it possible to easily analyze large amounts of data and to identify the relevance of events that were difficult to detect in existing event detection. We applied various text mining techniques and Word2vec technique in the text preprocessing to improve the accuracy of the extraction of proper nouns and synthetic nouns, which have been difficult in analyzing existing Korean texts, can be found. In this study, the detection and network configuration techniques of the event have the following advantages in practical application. First, LDA topic modeling, which is unsupervised learning, can easily analyze subject and topic words and distribution from huge amount of data. Also, by using the date information of the collected news articles, it is possible to express the distribution by topic in a time series. Second, we can find out the connection of events in the form of present and summarized form by calculating relevance score and constructing event network by using simultaneous occurrence of topics that are difficult to grasp in existing event detection. It can be seen from the fact that the inter-event relevance-based event network proposed in this study was actually constructed in order of occurrence time. It is also possible to identify what happened as a starting point for a series of events through the event network. The limitation of this study is that the characteristics of LDA topic modeling have different results according to the initial parameters and the number of subjects, and the subject and event name of the analysis result should be given by the subjective judgment of the researcher. Also, since each topic is assumed to be exclusive and independent, it does not take into account the relevance between themes. Subsequent studies need to calculate the relevance between events that are not covered... 전통적으로 신문 매체는 국내외에서 발생하는 사건들을 살피는 데에 가장 적합한 매체이다. 최근에는 정보통신 기술의 발달로 온라인 뉴스 매체가 다양하게 등장하면서 주변에서 일어나는 사건들에 대한 보도가 크게증가하였고, 이것은 독자들에게 많은 양의 정보를 보다 빠르고 편리하게 접할 기회를 제공함과 동시에 감당할수 없는 많은 양의 정보소비라는 문제점도 제공하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 방대한 양의 뉴스기사로부터 데이터를 추출하여 주요 사건을 감지하고, 사건들 간의 관련성을 판단하여 사건 네트워크를 구축함으로써 독자들에게현시적이고 요약적인 사건정보를 제공하는 기법을 제안하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 2016년 3월에서2017년 3월까지의 한국 정치 및 사회 기사를 수집하였고, 전처리과정에서 NPMI와 Word2Vec 기법을 활용하여고유명사 및 합성명사와 이형동의어 추출의 정확성을 높였다. 그리고 LDA 토픽 모델링을 실시하여 날짜별로주제 분포를 계산하고 주제 분포의 최고점을 찾아 사건을 탐지하는 데 사용하였다. 또한 사건 네트워크를 구축하기 위해 탐지된 사건들 간의 관련성을 측정을 위하여 두 사건이 같은 뉴스 기사에 동시에 등장할수록 서로더 연관이 있을 것이라는 가정을 바탕으로 코사인 유사도를 확장하여 관련성 점수를 계산하는데 사용하였다. 최종적으로 각 사건은 각각의 정점으로, 그리고 사건 간의 관련성 점수는 정점들을 잇는 간선으로 설정하여 사건 네트워크를 구축하였다. 본 연구에서 제시한 사건 네트워크는 1년간 한국에서 발생했던 정치 및 사회 분야의 주요 사건들이 시간 순으로 정렬되었고, 이와 동시에 특정 사건이 어떤 사건과 관련이 있는지 파악하는데도움을 주었다. 또한 일련의 사건들의 시발점이 되는 사건이 무엇이었는가도 확인이 가능하였다. 본 연구는 텍스트 전처리 과정에서 다양한 텍스트 마이닝 기법과 새로이 주목받고 있는 Word2vec 기법을 적용하여 봄으로써 기존의 한글 텍스트 분석에서 어려움을 겪고 있었던 고유명사 및 합성명사 추출과 이형동의어의 정확도를높였다는 것에서 학문적 의의를 찾을 수 있다. 그리고, LDA 토픽 모델링을 활용하기에 방대한 양의 데이터를쉽게 분석 가능하다는 것과 기존의 사건 탐지에서는 파악하기 어려웠던 사건 간 관련성을 주제 동시출현을 통해 파악할 수 있다는 점에서 기존의 사건 탐지 방법과 차별화된다.

문화이벤트 참여태도에 따른 문화이벤트 만족도 및 충성도

김은진(Kim, Eun Jin),이희정(Lee, Hee Jung),윤유식(Yoon, Yoo Shik) 한국전시산업융합연구원 2015 한국과학예술융합학회 Vol.21 No.-

본 연구는 문화이벤트 태도에 따른 문화이벤트 참여자의 만족도 및 충성도를 분석하는데 연구의 목적이 있다. 최근 다양한 문화이벤트가 이루어지고 있고 이는 문화이벤트 참여자에 대한 다양한 긍정적인 역할을 수행하고 있다고 알려지고 있다. 그러나 문화이벤트 참가자가 어떠한 생각과 태도를 보이는 가에 대한 실증적인 연구가 부족하여 좀 더 체계적이고 효과적인 문화이벤트 구성과 기획을 위한 활용자료가 필요하다고 볼 수 있다. 즉 융합적 연구활동을 통해 참가자의 다양한 욕구와 요구에 맞는 문화이벤트 프로그램 구성과 컨텐츠 개발이 필요하다고 할 수 있으며 어떠한 요소가 문화이벤트 참가자의 만족도와 충성도에 영향을 주는 가에 대한 연구가 필요하다고 할 수 있다. 또한 문화이벤트 관여도에 대한 조절효과를 분석할 필요가 있다고 할 수 있다. 이에 본 연구의 범위 및 방법으로 서울지역 문화이벤트 참여자를 대상으로 실증 분석하여 조절회귀분석을 실시하였다. 이러한 연구결과 문화이벤트의 태도에서 자기성찰과 지식습득, 자부심과 성취감, 스트레스 해소 및 도전 등이 문화이벤트 참여만족도 및 충성도에 영향을 미치며 문화이벤트 관여도의 조절효과를 설명할 수 있었다. 본 연구결과는 문화이벤트 기획과 운영, 프로그램 구성과 컨텐츠 개발에 유용한 자료로 활용될 것으로 사료된다. The purpose of this study was to examine attitude of cultural events that affect participation satisfaction and loyalty of cultural events. Although cultural events are increasingly important with its positive impact on event participants, the existing literature on cultural event is sparse. This study, thus, investigates moderating effects of cultural events’ involvement in a relationship between attitude of cultural event and participations" satisfaction and loyalty to understand the thoughts and attitude of participants. The survey was undertaken of participants to cultural events in Seoul, resulting in 513 valid responses. Through statistical analyses of factor analysis, multiple regression and hierarchical regression, four different factors of cultural event attitude were identified and those factors affect participation satisfaction and loyalty of cultural events. The results of this study provided support that there were moderated effects of cultural event involvement in the relationships between cultural event attitude and satisfaction and loyalty. More theoretical and practical implication were discussed in the conclusion.

스포츠이벤트 참여가 스포츠 채널 선호도와 시청의도에 미치는 영향

박성화 ( Seong Hwa Park ),이명권 ( Myoung Kwon Lee ) 한국스포츠산업경영학회 2014 한국스포츠산업경영학회지 Vol.19 No.3

본 연구는 스포츠 채널이 기획·운영하는 스포츠이벤트의 참여경험이 참여자들의 스포츠 채널 선호도와 시청의도에 미치는 영향을 살펴보고자 하였다. 그리고 스포츠이벤트 참여경험 효과는 참여자들의 특성(성별, 연령대, 스포츠 관여도)에 따라 어떻게 다르게 나타나는지도 살펴보았다. 이를 위해 연구자들은 MBC 한강마라톤 참가자들을 대상으로 참가 전과 후의 2차례에 걸친 설문조사를 실시하였고, 그 결과를 분석하였다. 연구결과, 스포츠이벤트 참가 전과 후 참여자들의 해당 스포츠 채널에 대한 선호도와 시청의도는 향상되고 있었다. 참여자의 특성(성별, 연령별, 관여도)에 따른 스포츠이벤트의 참여효과(채널 선호도향상, 시청의도 향상)의 차이는 관여도에서만 유의미하게 나타났다. 참여자의 관여도에 따른 분석의 경우, 고관여 집단은 참여 전과 참여 후 모두 저관여 집단보다 채널 선호도와 시청의도가 높았다. 그러나 이벤트 참여를 통한 채널 선호도와 시청의도의 향상효과는 저관여 집단이 고관여 집단보다 크게 나타났다. 즉 스포츠이벤트는 고관여 집단보다 저관여 집단에게 더 효과적인 마케팅 툴이 될 수 있음을 보여준다. 연구자들은 이 결과를 바탕으로 이론적·실무적 함의를 제시하였다. This study was aimed to examine how sports event planned and organized by sports channel influences consumers`` preference change of the channel and how consumer``s marathon involvement influences to the channel preference and viewing intentions on the channel. This study was to suggest and present various effects of sports events toward sports channel through the analysis of sports events organized by the sports channel. And also the study was to provide the basis of sports channel marketing strategy to maximize and maintain the effects of organizing sports events. Targeting example was stratified sampled 300 participants of "2012 adidas MBC Han-river Marathon" which was organized by MBC Sports Plus on April 8th, 2012. The survey was conducted twice on the same sampling before and after the sports event and total 213 cases were analyzed. For data analysis, Windows SPSS 12.0 version was used and frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, factor analysis, reliability analysis, t-test were carried out. First of all, the main result was verified that the sports channel preference was increased with the sport event participation by age, gender and participated race courses. Secondly, it was verified that participant``s involvermrnt factors had significant effect to sports channel preference and viewing intension. This study has significance to the fact that the sports events as a way to improve competitiveness and to diversify income structure had influences and effects empirically. Especially, consumers positively effected on the sports channel preference by participating sports event organized by the sports channel. And also consumers`` sports involvement factors had attentive effect to sports channel preferences and viewing intentions. Above study results would be critical base line data for sports event strategy to sports channel. In addition, to draw continuous growth of sports channel through sports events, the channel must understand consumer``s mature and demand. At the same time, the channel needs to carefully analyze the consumer``s sports involvement factors that influence the sports channel preference and viewing intentions. It would be critical to utilize the analysis to sports event planning and organizing exhaustively.

하이브리드 피처 생성 및 딥 러닝 기반 박테리아 세포의 세분화

임선자,칼렙부누누,권기룡,윤성대 한국멀티미디어학회 2020 멀티미디어학회논문지 Vol.23 No.8

We present in this work a segmentation method of E. coli bacterial images generated via phase contrast microscopy using a deep learning based hybrid feature generation. Unlike conventional machine learning methods that use the hand-crafted features, we adopt the denoising autoencoder in order to generate a precise and accurate representation of the pixels. We first construct a hybrid vector that combines original image, difference of Gaussians and image gradients. The created hybrid features are then given to a deep autoencoder that learns the pixels’ internal dependencies and the cells’ shape and boundary information. The latent representations learned by the autoencoder are used as the inputs of a softmax classification layer and the direct outputs from the classifier represent the coarse segmentation mask. Finally, the classifier’s outputs are used as prior information for a graph partitioning based fine segmentation. We demonstrate that the proposed hybrid vector representation manages to preserve the global shape and boundary information of the cells, allowing to retrieve the majority of the cellular patterns without the need of any post-processing.