• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.314-318
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• 2010

This paper proposes an image retrieval method based on the Multiple Region-of-Interest. In the proposed method, the image is segmented into blocks, among which the blocks overlapped with multiple ROIs are selected. The similarity of images is measured using the MPEG-7 dominant color descriptor(DCD) and considering the relative location of the overlapped blocks. The experimental results showed that the proposed method improves the retrieval performance than the previous methods using the global DCD or comparing the blocks at the same position. In addition, the method that considers the relative position of blocks overlapped with the multiple ROIs also showed a better performance than the existing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.133-135
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• 2005

현재 웹을 사용하는 사람, 디지털 컨텐츠, 정보의 생성이 계속적으로 증가하여 오고 있다. 최근 웹 데이터는 멀티미디어 데이터(비디오, 오디오, 웹TV, 이미지 등)라고 말해도 무방할 것이다. 이런 방대한 멀티미디어 데이터의 검색은 사용자들에게는 아주 중요한 작업이 되었으며, 효과적인 멀티미디어 검색 시스템의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 최근까지의 멀티미디어 데이터 검색은 내용${\cdot}$주석기반의 검색이 주를 이루고 있다. 하지만 내용${\cdot}$주석 기반 검색은 의미${\cdot}$추론적 검색에서는 부족함을 보여주고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 검색 방법 중에서도 주석 기반 검색에서 가지는 문제점을 살펴보고 그에 대한 해결 알고리즘과 프레임워크를 제안한다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.1-14
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• 2007

Character images for the background screen of cell phones are one of the fast growing sectors of the mobile content market. However, character image buyers currently experience tremendous difficulties in searching for desired images due to the awkward image search process. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) widely used for image retrieval could be a good candidate as a solution to this problem, but it needs to overcome the limitation of the mobile Internet environment where an initial query set (IQS) cannot be easily provided as in the PC-based environment. We propose a new approach, IQS-AutoGen, which automatically generates an initial query set for CBIR on the mobile Internet. The approach applies the collaborative filtering (CF), a well-known recommendation technique, to the CBIR process by using users' preference information collected during the relevance feedback process of CBIR. The results of the experiment using a PC-based prototype system show that the proposed approach successfully satisfies the initial query requirement of CBIR in the mobile Internet environment, thereby outperforming the current image search process on the mobile Internet.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.724-734
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• 1999

내용기반 이미지검색을 위한 기존의 색인구조들은 데이터 객체들을 대표하는 특성들이 증가함에 따라 검색시간 또는 공간요구량이 지수 함수적으로 증가하게 되는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문은 내용기반 이미지검색을 위한 기존의 색인구조들을 분석하여 새로운 색인구조가 갖추어야할 요구조건을 제시한 후, 제시된 요구조건들을 만족하는 새로운 색인구조 CIR-트리를 제안한다. 제안된 방법의 우수성을 보이기 위해 실험을 통하여 색인구조들에 관한 성능을 여러 환경에서 비교하고 분석한다. 이를 통해 제안된 CIR-트리가 기존의 색인구조들에 비해 고차원에 적합하면서 검색시간과 저장공간면에서 성능이 우수함을 보인다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.6
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• pp.701-708
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• 2004

Existing contents-based video retrieval systems search by using a single method such as annotation-based or feature-based retrieval. Hence, it not only shows low search efficiency, but also requires many efforts to provide system administrator or annotator with a perfect automatic processing. Tn this paper, we propose an agent-based, and automatic and unified semantics-based video retrieval system, which support various semantics-retrieval of the massive video data by integrating the feature-based retrieval and the annotation-based retrieval. The indexing agent embodies the semantics about annotation of extracted key frames by analyzing a fundamental query of a user and by selecting a key-frame image that is ed by a query. Also, a key frame selected by user takes a query image of the feature-based retrieval and the indexing agent searches and displays the most similar key-frame images after comparing query images with key frames in the database by using the color-multiple-partition histogram techniques. Furthermore, it is shown that the performance of the proposed system can be significantly improved.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.2 no.11
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• pp.1421-1426
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• 2001

Nowadays, as the quantity of multimedia information increases rapidly, an efficient management for multimedia has become more important. In this paper, to index and search multimedia contents efficiently, we designed the algorithm searching specific image and saving the extracted image using the semantic information extraction scheme based on contents and it is one of the schemes to indexing and searching of video data. After extracting the RGB information from input image, while all frames of video is inspected sequentially, the specific image is saved through referring to the position and distribution of contents from the collection scheme of RGB range. In case of using the proposed image extraction algorithm, because only saved video is searched instead of the whole the searching time can be reduced.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.7 no.2 s.13
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• pp.210-217
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• 2003

A novel characteristic value extraction method based on mathematical morphology is proposed. Morphological spatial frequency defined by morphological pattern distribution function is introduced and applied to define a new feature called ‘average height.' The average height is used to define a characteristic value which is to be used to generate an index key value for content-based image retrieval. Superiority of the method was proved for various images by experiment. Furthermore the fact that the proposed method does not need threshold to obtain binary image provides its applicability to content-based image retrieval.

• 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.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.13D no.7 s.110
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• pp.857-866
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• 2006

Performance of an image retrieval system is usually very low because of the semantic gap between the low level feature and the high level concept in a query image. Semantically relevant images may exhibit very different visual characteristics, and may be scattered in several clusters. In this paper, we propose a content based image rertrieval approach which combines region based image retrieval and a new relevance feedback method using adaptive clustering together. Our main goal is finding semantically related clusters to narrow down the semantic gap. Our method consists of region based clustering processes and cluster-merging process. All segmented regions of relevant images are organized into semantically related hierarchical clusters, and clusters are merged by finding the number of the latent clusters. This method, in the cluster-merging process, applies r: using v principal components instead of classical Hotelling's $T_v^2$ [1] to find the unknown number of clusters and resolve the singularity problem in high dimensions and demonstrate that there is little difference between the performance of $T^2$ and that of $T_v^2$. Experiments have demonstrated that the proposed approach is effective in improving the performance of an image retrieval system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.348-349
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• 2017

본 논문에서 제안하는 내용은 기존의 포털 검색의 키워드 입력 방식과는 달리, 검색하고자 하는 대상을 스마트폰과 같은 모바일 기기의 카메라로 촬영하면, 해당 촬영 이미지가 사용자 입장에서는 검색 키워드와 같이 동일한 역할을 할 수 있도록 이미지에 해당되는 검색 키워드를 추출 및 매칭하여 검색을 위한 질의어로 사용할 수 있도록 해주는 것을 목적으로 한다.