• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.145-156
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• 2003

Most of the content-based image retrieval systems focuses on similarity-based retrieval of natural picture images by utilizing color. shape, and texture features. For the neuroscience image databases, we found that retrieving similar images based on global average features is meaningless to pathological researchers. To realize the practical content-based retrieval on images in neuroscience databases, it is essential to represent internal contents or semantics of images in detail. In this paper, we present how to represent image contents and their related concepts to support more useful retrieval on such images. We also describe the operational semantics to support these advanced retrievals by using object-oriented message path expressions. Our schemes are flexible and extensible, enabling users to incrementally add more semantics on image contents for more enhanced content searching.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.300-303
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• 2011

이미지 어노테이션 기법은 효과적인 이마지 공유 및 검색을 위하여 활발하게 연구되고 있는 연구분야 중 하나로서, 최근에는 사용자들에 의하여 제작되는 방대한 양의 이미지 데이터 및 태그 정보를 제공하는 Flick와 같은 소셜 이마지 데이터베이스를 활용함으로써 이미지 어노테이션 및 이미지 검색을 효과적으로 수행하고자 하는 다양한 연구들이 시도되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이미지 지식정보의 관리 및 공유를 위한 온톨로지와 소셜 이마지 데이터베이스를 활용하여 이미지 어노테이션을 수행하기 위한 시스템을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 시스템은 소셜 이미지 데이터베이스를 활용하여 의미 있는 개념들을 이미지 어노테이션에 활용하며, 지식 관리 체계인 온툴로지를 이용하여 이미지 데이터베이스 내의 이미지 및 개념간에 존재하는 의미적 관련성을 기반으로 보다 효율적인 이미지 검색을 수행하고자 한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2002

There are two significant drawbacks in triple image indexing; one is that is cannot support concept-based image retrieval and the other is that it fails to allow disjunctive labeling of images. To remedy the drawbacks, we propose a new technique supporting a concept-based retrieval against images indexed by indefinite fuzzy triples (I-fuzzy triples). The I-fuzzy triples allow not only a disjunctive image labeling, but also a concept-based matching against images labeled disjunctively. The disjunctive labeling is based on the expended closed world assumption and the concept-based image retrieval is based on fuzzy matching. In this paper, we also propose a concept-based query evaluation against the image database to extract desired answers with the degree of certainty $\alpha$$\in$[1,0].

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.97-115
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• 2004

The paper examined the concepts and features of content-based Image and Video retrieval systems. It then analyzed the retrieval performance of on five content_based retrieval systems in terms of usability and retrieval features. The results showed that the combination of content_based retrieval techniques and meta-data based retrieval will be able to improve the retrieval effectiveness.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.787-790
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• 2002

의미 기반 영상 검색은 Color, Texture, Region 정보, Spatial Color Distribution등의 저차원 특징 정보와 이미지 데이터에 의미를 부여하기 위해 주서 처리하는 것이 일반적이다. 그리고 부여된 키워드나 시소러스와 같은 어휘 사전을 이용하여 의미기반 정보검색을 수행하고 있지만, 기존의 키워드기반 텍스트 정보검색의 한계를 벗어나지 못하는 문제를 야기 시킨다. 이에 본 논문에서는 시각 데이터에 존재하는 객체들과 그 객체 사이의 개념관계를 Ontology의 한 형태인 WordNet을 이용하여 의미 정보로 표현할 수 있도록 한다. 이를 활용하면 영상 데이터의 자동 주석 시스템이나 검색 시스템에서 인간이 인식하는 개념적인 사고방식에 더욱 접근할 수 있는 결과물을 얻을 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.303-317
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• 2002

In this paper, we design and implement E-COIRS enabling users to query with concepts and image features used for further refining the concepts. For example, E-COIRS supports the query "retrieve images containing black home appliance to north of reception set. "The query includes two types of concepts: IS-A and composite. "home appliance"is an IS-A concept, and "reception set" is a composite concept. For evaluating such a query. E-COIRS includes three important components: a visual image indexer, thesauri and a query processor. Each pair of objects in an mage captured by the visual image indexer is converted into a triple. The triple consists of the two object identifiers (oids) and their spatial relationship. All the features of an object is referenced by its old. A composite concept is detected by the triple thesaurus and IS-A concept is recolonized by the fuzzy term thesaurus. The query processor obtains an image set by matching each triple in a user with an inverted file and CS-Tree. To support efficient storage use and fast retrieval on high-dimensional feature vectors, E-COIRS uses Cell-based Signature tree(CS-Tree). E-COIRS is a more advanced content-based image retrieval system than other systems which support only concepts or image features.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.4
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• pp.509-516
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• 2004

Semantic interpretation of image is incomplete without some mechanism for understanding semantic content that is not directly visible. For this reason, human assisted content-annotation through natural language is an attachment of textual description to image. However, keyword-based retrieval is in the level of syntactic pattern matching. In other words, dissimilarity computation among terms is usually done by using string matching not concept matching. In this paper, we propose a method for computerized semantic similarity calculation In WordNet space. We consider the edge, depth, link type and density as well as existence of common ancestors. Also, we have introduced method that applied similarity measurement on semantic image retrieval. To combine wi#h the low level features, we use the spatial color distribution model. When tested on a image set of Microsoft's 'Design Gallery Line', proposed method outperforms other approach.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.197-200
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• 2005

의미 기반 영상 검색은 Color, Texture, Region 정보, Spatial Color Distribution 등의 저차원 특징 정보와 이미지 데이터에 의미를 부여하기 위해 주석 처리하는 것이 일반적이다. 그리고 부여된 키워드나 시소러스와 같은 어휘 사전을 이용하여 의미기반 정보검색을 수행하고 있지만, 기존의 키워드기반 텍스트 정보검색의 한계를 벗어나지 못하는 문제를 야기 시킨다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 WordNet 어휘 사전을 확장한 개념적 어휘 체계를 갖는 대형 Ontology를 기반으로 하여 이미지 데이터 내의 객체 인식과 추출된 객체간의 관계를 정의하여 이를 논리적으로 표현할 수 있는 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.4 s.42
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

Recently, studies of relevance feedback to increase the performance of image retrieval has been activated. In this Paper a new region weighting method in region based image retrieval with relevance feedback is proposed to reduce the semantic gap between the low level feature representation and the high level concept in a given query image. The new weighting method determines the importance of regions according to the spatial locations of regions in an image. Experimental results demonstrate that the retrieval quality of our method is about 18% in recall better than that of area percentage approach. and about 11% in recall better than that of region frequency weighted by inverse image frequency approach and the retrieval time of our method is a tenth of that of region frequency approach.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.209-223
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• 2000

As the importance and utilization of multimedia data increases, it becomes necessary to represent and manage multimedia data within database systems. In this paper, we designed and implemented an image retrieval system which support efficient management and intelligent retrieval of image data using concept hierarchy and data mining techniques. We stored the image information intelligently in databases using concept hierarchy. To support intelligent retrievals and efficient web services, our system automatically extracts and stores the user information, the user's query information, and the feature data of images. The proposed system integrates user metadata and image metadata to support various retrieval methods on image data.