• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.500-502
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• 1998

최근 정보 사회에서 중요한 기술로 자리잡은 멀티미디어 정보 검색에 대한 다양한연구가 진행 중에 있다. 본 논문은 정지 화상에 대한 CBIR(Content-Based Image Retrieval)방법 중 칼라 정보를 이용한 방법에서 공간 정보를 충분하게 표현할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 일반적으로 칼라 정보를 이용한 CBIR에서는 공간정보를 표현하기 위하여 인위적으로 영상을 여러 개로 분할하는 방법이나 영상의 히스토그램 내에서 영상의 위치 정보를 이용하는 방법 등이 연구되었다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 방법을 칼라 오브젝트의 추출 방법에 따라 1차와 2차 관계에 의한 방법으로 분류하고, 이동, 회전 특히 크기 변화(축소, 확대)에 탁월한 성능을 보이는 3차 칼라 오브젝트 관계를 이용한 방법을 소개한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 주어진 영상으로부터 양자화 된 24개의 버킷(bucket)을 생성해서 각 버킷 내의 칼라에 대한 색의 표준 편차로 색의 분산 정도를 나타내고, 빈도수가 높은 3개 버킷의 평균 칼라 위치를 계산해서 그들의 상호 각도를 추출하여 영상의 특징 벡터로 사용하였다. 실험결과 기존 방법보다 특히 영상의 크기 변화에 대해 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있었으며, 계산량도 적어 효율적임을 보여 주었다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.208-213
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• 2000

본 논문은 정지 화상에 대한 CBIR(Content-Based Image Retrieval)방법 중 칼라 특성을 이용해서 영상 내 공간 정보를 충분하게 표현할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 일반적으로 칼라 특성을 이용한 CBIR은 영상 내 공간정보를 충분하게 표현하지 못하는 단점을 지니고 있다. 이에 기존 논문에서는 인위적으로 영상을 여러 개로 분할하는 방법 등으로 공간정보를 표현하고자 하였지만 특징벡터의 수가 급격히 늘어남에 따라 검색효율이 저하된다는 단점을 가지고있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 방법을 칼라 오브젝트의 추출 방법에 따라 1차와 2차 관계에 의한 방법으로 분류하고, 이동, 회전 특히 크기 변화(축소, 확대)에 탁월한 성능을 보이는 칼라 오브젝트의 3차 관계를 이용한 방법을 소개한다. 주어진 영상으로부터 양자화된 24개의 버킷을 생성해서 각 버킷 내의 칼라에 대한 색의 표준 편차로 색의 분산 정도틀 나타내고, 히스토그램의 빈도수가 높은 세 개 버킷의 평균 칼라 위치를 계산해서 그들의 상호 각도를 추출하여 영상의 특징 벡터로 사용한을 제안하였다. 실험결과 기존 방법보다 특히 영상의 크기 변화에 대해 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있었으며, 계산량도 적어 효율적임을 보여 주었다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.145-155
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• 2002

In content-based image retrieval (CBIR), most conventional approaches assume a linear relationship between different features and require users themselves to assign the appropriate weights to each feature. However, the linear relationship assumed between the features is too restricted to accurately represent high-level concepts and the intricacies of human perception. In this paper, a neural network-based image retrieval (NNIR) model is proposed. It has been developed based on a human-computer interaction approach to CBIR using a radial basis function network (RBFN). By using the RBFN, this approach determines the nonlinear relationship between features and it allows the user to select an initial query image and search incrementally the target images via relevance feedback so that more accurate similarity comparison between images can be supported. The experiment was performed to calculate the level of recall and precision based on a database that contains 1,015 images and consists of 145 classes. The experimental results showed that the recall and level of the proposed approach were 93.45% and 80.61% respectively, which is superior than precision the existing approaches such as the linearly combining approach, the rank-based method, and the backpropagation algorithm-based method.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.117-124
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• 2008

We suggest CBIR(Content Based Image Retrieval) method using color and shape information. Using just one feature information may cause inaccuracy compared with using more than two feature information. Therefore many image retrieval system use many feature informations like color, shape and other features. We use two feature, HSI color information especially Hue value and CSS(Curvature Scale Space) as shape information. We search candidate image form DB which include feature information of many images. When we use two features, we could approach better result.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.853-867
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• 2005

A number of content-based image search methods have been proposed to this point. Each of these systems uses different image data and generates different data depending on the extraction method of different characteristics that the search capabilities of each system cannot be compared and assessed. In particular, there is a problem of applying the identical image data onto the contents based image search system on the web that cannot be compared and assessed. To resolve such a problem, the XML-based FEMAL is hereby presented for extracting data of characteristics generated from specific search system in a way that can be recognized from other starch system. In the experiment using FEMAL, the extract data for characteristics is mutually communicated and integrated and the comparison assessment of search capability is seemed to be available.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1676-1689
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• 2014

At present, the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system has become a hot research topic in the computer vision field. In the CBIR system, the accurate extractions of low-level features can reduce the gaps between high-level semantics and improve retrieval precision. This paper puts forward a new retrieval method aiming at the problems of high computational complexities and low precision of global feature extraction algorithms. The establishment of the new retrieval method is on the basis of the SIFT and Harris (APISH) algorithm, and the salient region of interest points (SRIP) algorithm to satisfy users' interests in the specific targets of images. In the first place, by using the IPDSH and SRIP algorithms, we tested stable interest points and found salient regions. The interest points in the salient region were named as salient interest points. Secondary, we extracted the pseudo-Zernike moments of the salient interest points' neighborhood as the feature vectors. Finally, we calculated the similarities between query and database images. Finally, We conducted this experiment based on the Caltech-101 database. By studying the experiment, the results have shown that this new retrieval method can decrease the interference of unstable interest points in the regions of non-interests and improve the ratios of accuracy and recall.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.81-91
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• 2005

In this paper we present a novel approach for image retrieval using color and edge information. We take into account the HSI(Hue, Saturation and Intensity) color space instead of RGB space, which emphasizes more on visual perception. In our system colors in an image are clustered into a small number of representative colors. The color feature descriptor consists of the representative colors and their percentages in the image. An improved cumulative color histogram distance measure is defined for this descriptor. And also, we have developed an efficient edge detection technique as an optional feature to our retrieval system in order to surmount the weakness of color feature. During the query processing, both the features (color, edge information) could be integrated for image retrieval as well as a standalone entity, by specifying it in a certain proportion. The content-based retrieval system is tested to be effective in terms of retrieval and scalability through experimental results and precision-recall analysis.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.122-129
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• 2007

As the availability of an image information has been significantly increasing, necessity of system that can manage an image information is increasing. Accordingly, we proposed the content-based image retrieval(CBIR) method based on an efficient combination of a color feature and an image's shape and position information. As a color feature, a HSI color histogram is chosen which is known to measure spatial of colors well. Shape and position information are obtained using Hu invariant moments in the luminance of HSI model. For efficient similarity computation, the extracted features(Color histogram, Hu invariant moments) are combined and then measured precision. As a experiment result using DB that was supported by http://www.freefoto.com, the proposed image search engine has 93% precision and can apply successfully image retrieval applications.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.745-746
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• 2008

In the last few years rapid improvements in hardware technology have made it possible to process, store and retrieve huge amounts of data ina multimedia format. As a result, Content-Based Image Retrieval(CBIR) has been receiving widespred interest during the last decade. This paper propose the content-based retrieval system as a method for performing image retrieval throught the effective feature analysis of the object of significant meaning by using texture descriptor.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.213-231
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• 2014

Existing image search systems allow users to search images by keywords, or by example images through content-based image retrieval (CBIR). On the other hand, users might learn more relevant textual information about an image from its text captions or surrounding contexts within documents or Web pages. Without such contexts, it's difficult to extract semantic description directly from the image content. In this paper, we propose an annotation watermarking system for users to embed text descriptions, and retrieve more relevant textual information from similar images. First, tags associated with an image are converted by two-dimensional code and embedded into the image by discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Next, for images without annotations, similar images can be obtained by CBIR techniques and embedded annotations can be extracted. Specifically, we use global features such as color ratios and dominant sub-image colors for preliminary filtering. Then, local features such as Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) descriptors are extracted for similarity matching. This design can achieve good effectiveness with reasonable processing time in practical systems. Our experimental results showed good accuracy in retrieving similar images and extracting relevant tags from similar images.