• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.12
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• pp.756-771
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• 2003

Digital Video Library System which manages a large amount of multimedia information requires efficient and effective retrieval methods. In this paper, we propose and implement a new video search and retrieval algorithm that compares the query video shot with the video shots in the archives in terms of foreground object, background image, audio, and its context. The foreground object is the region of the video image that has been changed in the successive frames of the shot, the background image is the remaining region of the video image, and the context is the relationship between the low-level features of the adjacent shots. Comparing these features is a result of reflecting the process of filming a moving picture, and it helps the user to submit a query focused on the desired features of the target video clips easily by adjusting their weights in the comparing process. Although the proposed search and retrieval algorithm could not totally reflect the high level semantics of the submitted query video, it tries to reflect the users' requirements as much as possible by considering the context of video clips and by adjusting its weight in the comparing process.

• 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 Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.365-367
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• 1999

최근 인터넷 검색엔진에서 이미지 검색이 중요한 요소로 대두되고 있으며, 특히 영상 자체의 내용을 근간으로 하는 내용-기반 이미지 검색 시스템이 인기를 모으고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 내용-기반 이미지 검색 시스템에서 중요한 문제인 객체 특징 추출방법에 대해서 논의하며, 특정 이미지 객체에 적용될 수 있는 4가지 종류(모양, 칼라, 크기, 면적)의 특징 값을 제안한다. 또한, 제시한 특징 값을 사용하여 웹 상에서 구현한 검색 시스템의 설계를 함께 선 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.323-329
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• 2002

멀티미디어 정보검색 중 내용 기반 영상검색은 색상, 질감, 형태 등의 영상 내용 특징들을 이용하여 검색하는 방법으로, 색상과 질감 특징을 이용한 검색 시스템이 일반적으로 널리 소개되고 있다. 그러나 형태가 서로 다른 영상에서는 색상과 질감 특징에 의한 검색 방법은 유사 영상검색에서 오류를 수반할 수 있다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 영상의 윤곽선 에 의한 전역 형태 특징으로 허용 가능한 범주 이내로 유사도 영상을 필터링한 후 형태정보의 히스토그램을 이용하여 유사도 검색을 함으로써 정확도를 놀일 수 있는 시스템을 개발한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10b
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• pp.265-267
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• 1998

본 논문은 내용기반 이미지 검색시스템에서 사용하는 특징벡터들 중에서 하나인 형태 특징벡터를 추출하는데 초점을 맞쳤다. 특히 다양한 방향으로 회전된 영상의 형태를 수용할 수 있는 모멘트 정보를 영상의 형태 특징벡터로 사용하였다. 그 결과 영상과 회전되지 않은 영상간의 차이값이 0에 가까워 유사성이 아주 좋음을 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.710-712
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 시각적. 공간적 정보로 멀티미디어 분야에서 다양한 응용이 가능한 이미지검색을 위해 색상특징정보와 모양특징정보를 멀티인덱스키로 구성하여 질의 이미지의 입력 시 자동으로 색상특징정보와 모양특징정보를 동시에 추출하여 유사한 이미지를 검색할 수 있는 내용기반 이미지 검색시스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 시스템은 기존의 단일 특징정보를 이용한 방법이나 2가지 이상의 특징정보를 단계적으로 검색하는 방법에 비해 향상된 효율성과 신속성을 보이고 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.1071-1092
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• 2014

Annotating images with tags that describe the content of the images facilitates image retrieval. However, this task is challenging for both humans and computers. In response, a new approach has been proposed that converts the manual image annotation task into CAPTCHA challenges. However, this approach has not been widely used because of its weak security and the fact that it can be applied only to annotate for a specific type of attribute clearly separated into mutually exclusive categories (e.g., gender). In this paper, we propose a novel image annotation CAPTCHA scheme, which can successfully differentiate between humans and computers, annotate image content difficult to separate into mutually exclusive categories, and generate verified test images difficult for computers to identify but easy for humans. To test its feasibility, we applied our scheme to annotate images of human faces with their age groups and conducted user studies. The results showed that our proposed system, called AgeCAPTCHA, annotated images of human faces with high reliability, yet the process was completed by the subjects quickly and accurately enough for practical use. As a result, we have not only verified the effectiveness of our scheme but also increased the applicability of image annotation CAPTCHAs.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.151-160
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• 2002

Cow image processing technique would be useful not only for recognizing an individual but also for establishing the image database and analyzing the shape of cows. A cow (Holstein) has usually the unique speckle pattern. In this study, the individual recognition of cow was carried out using the speckle pattern and the content-based image retrieval technique. Sixty cow images of 16 heads were captured under outdoor illumination, which were complicated images due to shadow, obstacles and walking posture of cow. Sixteen images were selected as the reference image for each cow and 44 query images were used for evaluating the efficiency of individual recognition by matching to each reference image. Run-lengths and positions of runs across speckle area were calculated from 40 horizontal line profiles for ROI (region of interest) in a cow body image after 3 passes of 5$\times$5 median filtering. A similarity measure for recognizing cow individuals was calculated using Euclidean distance of normalized G-frame histogram (GH). normalized speckle run-length (BRL), normalized x and y positions (BRX, BRY) of speckle runs. This study evaluated the efficiency of individual recognition of cow using Recall(Success rate) and AVRR(Average rank of relevant images). Success rate of individual recognition was 100% when GH, BRL, BRX and BRY were used as image query indices. It was concluded that the histogram as global property and the information of speckle runs as local properties were good image features for individual recognition and the developed system of individual recognition was reliable.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.1 s.33
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• pp.93-100
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• 2005

This study is to desist and implement an efficient microbial medical image retrieval system based on knowledge and content of them which can make use of more accurate decision on colony as doll as efficient education for new techicians. For this. re first address overall inference to set up flexible search path using rule-base in order U redure time required original microbial identification by searching the fastest path of microbial identification phase based on heuristics knowledge. Next, we propose a color ffature gfraction mtU, which is able to extract color feature vectors of visual contents from a inn microbial image based on especially bacteria image using HSV color model. In addition, for better retrieval performance based on large microbial databases, we present an integrated indexing technique that combines with B+-tree for indexing simple attributes, inverted file structure for text medical keywords list, and scan-based filtering method for high dimensional color feature vectors. Finally. the implemented system shows the possibility to manage and retrieve the complex microbial images using knowledge and visual contents itself effectively. We expect to decrease rapidly Loaming time for elementary technicians by tell organizing knowledge of clinical fields through proposed system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.700-702
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 내용 기반의 화상 검색 시스템을 위한 화상 특징 추출을 고속으로 수행하기 위하여 TCP/IP 프로토콜을 사용하는 LAN 환경에서 유휴(Idle) PC들을 사용한 PC 클러스터에 관해 연구하였다. 실험에 사용한 화상 특징(Image feature)으로서는 칼라의 응집도를 사용하는 CCV(Color Coherence Vector), 화상의 엔트로피를 정량화한 PIM(Picture Information Measure), Gaussian-Laplacian 에지 검출 연산을 사용한 SEV(Spatial Edge Histogram Vector)로서 이들을 추출하기 위한 Task를 Master rude에서 Slave rude들로 전송하고, 연산에 사용 될 화상 데이터를 전송한 후 연산을 수행하고 결과를 다시 Master node로 전송하는 전통적인 Task-Farming형태의 PC Cluster를 구성하였다. 연산에 참여하는 클러스터 노드의 개수를 증가시키며 Task와 화상데이터를 전송하여 이에 따른 연산시간을 측정하고 비교하였다. 실험 결과는 유휴 PC들로 구성된 PC클러스터를 이용한 효율적인 내용기반의 화상 검색 시스템을 구성하기 위해 활용이 가능하다.