Journal of KIISE:Databases (한국정보과학회논문지:데이타베이스)

Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (한국정보과학회)
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A Similarity Ranking Algorithm for Image Databases

이미지 데이터베이스 유사도 순위 매김 알고리즘

  • 차광호 (서울산업대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
  • Published : 2009.10.15
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a similarity search algorithm for image databases. One of the central problems regarding content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is the semantic gap between the low-level features computed automatically from images and the human interpretation of image content. Many search algorithms used in CBIR have used the Minkowski metric (or $L_p$-norm) to measure similarity between image pairs. However those functions cannot adequately capture the aspects of the characteristics of the human visual system as well as the nonlinear relationships in contextual information. Our new search algorithm tackles this problem by employing new similarity measures and ranking strategies that reflect the nonlinearity of human perception and contextual information. Our search algorithm yields superior experimental results on a real handwritten digit image database and demonstrates its effectiveness.

이 논문은 이미지 데이터베이스를 위한 유사도 순위 매김 알고리즘을 제시한다. 이미지 검색의 문제점 중 하나가 이미지로부터 자동적으로 계산한 하위 레벨 특성과 인간 지각과의 의미 차이이며, 검색시에 이미지 유사도 측정을 위해 많은 알고리즘에서는 민코프스키 측정법($L_p$-norm)을 사용하고 있다. 그러나 민코프스키 측정법은 인간 시각 시스템의 비선형적 특성과 문맥 정보를 반영하지 못한다. 본 알고리즘에서는 인간 지각의 비선형성과 문맥 정보를 반영하는 유사도와 탐색 알고리즘을 통해 이 문제를 해결한다. 본 알고리즘을 필기체 숫자 이미지 데이터베이스에 적용하여 성능의 우수성과 효과를 증명하였다.

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