• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
• /
• 제33권4호
• /
• pp.569-577
• /
• 2009

Mobile information retrieval is an evolving branch of information retrieval that is centered on mobile and ubiquitous environments. In general, mobile devices are characterized by lightweight, low power, small memory, small display, limited input/output, low bandwidth, and so on. Some of these characteristics make it impossible to apply general information retrieval to mobile environments without any modification. In order to relieve this problem, we design and implement an information retrieval system for mobile devices like wireless phones, PDA and handheld devices. We use document summarization techniques to alleviate the limitation of small display and user profiles to retrieve the most proper documents for each individual user for personalized search. Futhermore we use meta-search to lighten some burdens visiting several portal sites. In this paper, we have implemented and demonstrated the proposed mobile information retrieval system on the domain of travel and received good evaluation from users subjectively.

• International Journal of Contents
• /
• 제8권2호
• /
• pp.1-6
• /
• 2012

Recently, content-based music information retrieval (MIR) systems for mobile devices have attracted great interest. However, music retrieval systems are greatly affected by background noise when music is recorded in noisy environments. Therefore, we evaluated various pre-processing methods using the Philips method to determine the one that performs most robust music retrieval in such environments. We found that dynamic noise reduction (DNR) is the best pre-processing method for a music retrieval system in noisy environments.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
• /
• 제19권8호
• /
• pp.1498-1504
• /
• 2016

The progress of mobile computing technology is bringing a large amount of multimedia contents such as image. Thus, we need an image retrieval system which searches semantically relevant image. In this paper, we propose a semantic image annotation and retrieval in mobile environments. Previous mobile-based annotation approaches cannot fully express the semantics of image due to the limitation of current form (i.e., keyword tagging). Our approach allows mobile devices to annotate the image automatically using the context-aware information such as temporal and spatial data. In addition, since we annotate the image using RDF(Resource Description Framework) model, we are able to query SPARQL for semantic image retrieval. Our system implemented in android environment shows that it can more fully represent the semantics of image and retrieve the images semantically comparing with other image annotation systems.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제12권10호
• /
• pp.4856-4872
• /
• 2018

The mobile internet has grown ubiquitous across the globe with the widespread use of smart devices. However, the designs of modern mobile operating systems and their applications limit content retrieval with mobile applications. The mobile internet is not as accessible as the traditional web, having more man-made restrictions and lacking a unified approach for crawling and content retrieval. In this study, we propose an automatic and scalable mobile application content crawler, which can recognize the interaction paths of mobile applications, representing them as interaction graphs and automatically collecting content according to the graphs in a parallel manner. The crawler was verified by retrieving content from 50 non-game applications from the Google Play Store using the Android platform. The experiment showed the efficiency and scalability potential of our crawler for large-scale mobile internet content retrieval.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
• /
• 제19권1호
• /
• pp.36-41
• /
• 2021

Text-based image retrieval is not only cumbersome as it requires the manual input of keywords by the user, but is also limited in the semantic approach of keywords. However, content-based image retrieval enables visual processing by a computer to solve the problems of text retrieval more fundamentally. Vision applications such as extraction and mapping of image characteristics, require the processing of a large amount of data in a mobile environment, rendering efficient power consumption difficult. Hence, an effective image retrieval method on mobile platforms is proposed herein. To provide the visual meaning of keywords to be inserted into images, the efficiency of image retrieval is improved by extracting keywords of exchangeable image file format metadata from images retrieved through a content-based similar image retrieval method and then adding automatic keywords to images captured on mobile devices. Additionally, users can manually add or modify keywords to the image metadata.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
• /
• 제29권1_2호
• /
• pp.30-41
• /
• 2002

분산 이형 환경에서 대용량의 정보를 검색하는 새로운 패러다임으로 이동 에이전트가 주목받고 있다. 검색을 수행하기 위해 많은 양의 데이터를 전송하는 대신 검색을 수행하는 에이전트를 검색을 수행할 서버로 직접 전달하는 방식을 이용하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 분산 이형 환경에 독립적으로 존재하는 정보를 효율적으로 검색할 수 있는 이동 에이전트 기반의 정보 검색 모델을 제시하고 질의응답(Q&A)을 검색하는 시스템을 다지인하고 구현한다. 제안된 모델인 이동 에이전트 기반의 질의응답 검색 시스템(QASSMA : Q&A Search System using Mobile Agents)은 이형 분산의 환경에 존재하는 질의응답 게시판 및 뉴스그룹을 검색할 수 있는 모델이다. QASSMA의 특징을 요약하면, 우선, 최적의 검색 위치로 검색 코드 자체가 이동하여 검색을 수행하므로 기존의 정적인 검색 로봇에 비하여 고정된 네트워크 거리를 극복할 수 있고 단축된 원격 서버와의 네트워크 거리만큼 검색시간을 단축시킬 수 있다. 또한 출발서버에서 검색할 위치로 검색코드가 이동하여 실행되므로 중앙 집중적인 네트워크 트래픽 형성을 막고 출발서버의 부담을 줄일 수 있다. 마지막으로, QASSMA의 이동 검색 에이전트는 검색 환경에 맞는 클래스를 능동적으로 탑재하여 효율적으로 검색 환경의 변화에 대처할 수 있고 다양한 검색 방법을 지원할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 실험을 통해 제안된 이동 에이전트 기반의 질의응답 시스템의 검색 방법이 기존의 정적인 검색 방법에 비해 효율적임을 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제17권2호
• /
• pp.450-470
• /
• 2023

Traditional cloud computing faces some challenges such as huge energy consumption, network delay and single point of failure. Edge computing is a typical distributed processing platform which includes multiple edge servers closer to the users, thus is more robust and can provide real-time computing services. Although outsourcing data to edge servers can bring great convenience, it also brings serious security threats. In order to provide image retrieval while ensuring users' data privacy, a privacy preserving image retrieval scheme in edge environment is proposed. Considering the distributed characteristics of edge computing environment and the requirement for lightweight computing, we present a privacy-preserving image retrieval scheme in edge computing environment, which two or more "honest but curious" servers retrieve the image quickly and accurately without divulging the image content. Compared with other traditional schemes, the scheme consumes less computing resources and has higher computing efficiency, which is more suitable for resource-constrained edge computing environment. Experimental results show the algorithm has high security, retrieval accuracy and efficiency.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
• /
• 제22권1호
• /
• pp.56-63
• /
• 2024

Despite the rapid strides in content-based image retrieval, a notable disparity persists between the visual features of images and the semantic features discerned by humans. Hence, image retrieval based on the association of semantic similarities recognized by humans with visual similarities is a difficult task for most image-retrieval systems. Our study endeavors to bridge this gap by refining image semantics, aligning them more closely with human perception. Deep learning techniques are used to semantically classify images and retrieve those that are semantically similar to personalized images. Moreover, we introduce a keyword-based image retrieval, enabling automatic labeling of images in mobile environments. The proposed approach can improve the performance of a mobile device with limited resources and bandwidth by performing retrieval based on the visual features and keywords of the image on the mobile device.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제4권3호
• /
• pp.305-323
• /
• 2010

This paper proposes an efficient and yet powerful local descriptor called phase-space partition based descriptor (PPD). This descriptor is designed for the mobile image matching and retrieval. PPD, which is inspired from SIFT, also encodes the salient aspects of the image gradient in the neighborhood around an interest point. However, without employing SIFT's smoothed gradient orientation histogram, we apply the region based gradient statistics in phase space to the construction of a feature representation, which allows to reduce much computation requirements. The feature matching experiments demonstrate that PPD achieves favorable performance close to that of SIFT and faster building and matching. We also present results showing that the use of PPD descriptors in a mobile image retrieval application results in a comparable performance to SIFT.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
• /
• 제8권1호
• /
• pp.37-50
• /
• 2018

The purpose of the study is to identify the perception of the Library and Information Science (LIS) specialists about the use of mobile phones in retrieving information. It investigates the present status of the LIS specialists regarding mobile phone usage, perceptions regarding the use of mobile phones in retrieving information from libraries and points out the possible drawbacks and their solutions for embracing mobile phones in retrieving information from libraries and providing some suggestions. The methodology includes a quantitative approach. The authors used a survey method using a structured questionnaire to measure the perception of LIS specialists regarding the use of mobile phones in retrieving information from libraries. The findings confirmed that the majority (72%) of LIS specialists have the experience of using mobile phones for more than 10 years. Findings also indicate that the LIS specialists have agreed with the statements of advantages of using mobile phones. This paper concludes that the respondents also agreed regarding the possible advantages of introducing mobile phones in retrieving information from libraries. The paper explores the original perceptions of LIS specialists regarding the use of mobile phones in retrieving information from libraries.