• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.135-138
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• 2020

This paper suggests a method of automatic clustering to search of relevant digital photos using geo-coded information. The provided scheme labels photo images with their corresponding global positioning system coordinates and date/time at the moment of capture, and the labels are used as clustering metadata of the images when they are in the use of retrieval. Experimental results show that geo-location information can improve the accuracy of image retrieval, and the information embedded within the images are effective and precise on the image clustering.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.35-40
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• 2010

Due to the distribution of digital camera, many work for photo management has been studied. However, most work use a sequential grid layout which arranges photos considering one criterion of digital photo. This interface makes users have lots of scrolling and concentrate ability when they manage their photos. In this paper, we propose a clustering method based on a temporal sequence considering their color similarity in detail. First we cluster photos using Cooper's event clustering method. Second, we makes more detailed clusters from each clustered photo set, which are clustered temporal clustering before, using maximal clique finding algorithm of interval graph. Finally, we arrange each detailed dusters on a user screen with their overlap keeping their temporal sequence. In order to evaluate our proposed system, we conducted on user studies based on a simple questionnaire.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.1269-1273
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• 2010

Typically users prefer to manage and access personal photo collections taken from a cell phone based on events. In this paper we propose an event clustering algorithm that requires low computation cost with high accuracy supporting incremental operation. The proposed method is based on the statistical analysis of the elapsed interval of intra-event photos on the real sample data for the decision of an event boundary. We then incorporate both location and visual information for the ambiguous range to split with only temporal cue. According to test results, we show higher performance compared to existing general clustering approaches.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.616-620
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• 2010

Generally, most people use the photo management method which clusters lots of photos into each folders according to photo shooting time and date. However, since the number of photos to manage is getting more increasing, it takes much time and burdensome work. This paper describes PHOTOLAND, a system that visualizes hundreds of photos on a 2D grid space to help users manage their photos. It closely places similar photos in the grid based on temporal and spatial information. Most photograph management systems use a scrollable view based on a sequential grid layout that arranges the thumbnails of photos in some default order on the screen. Our system decreases drag and drop mouse interaction when they classify their photos into small groups comparing to the sequential grid layout. We conducted experiments to evaluate temporal coherence and space efficiency.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.711-716
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• 2006

Since the introduction of digital camera to the mass market, the number of digital photos owned by an individual is growing at an alarming rate. This phenomenon naturally leads to the issues of difficulties while searching and browsing in the personal digital photo archive. Traditional approach typically involves content-based image retrieval using computer vision algorithms. However, due to the performance limitations of these algorithms, at least on the casual digital photos taken by non-professional photographers, more recent approaches are centered on time-based clustering algorithms, analyzing the shot times of photos. These time-based clustering algorithms are based on the insight that when these photos are clustered according to the shot-time similarity, we have "event clusters" that will help the user browse through her photo archive. It is also reported that one of the remaining problems with the time-based approach is that people perceive events in different scales. In this paper, we present an adaptive time-based clustering algorithm that exploits the usage history of digital photos in order to infer the user's preference on the event granularity. Experiments show significant performance improvements in the clustering accuracy.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.23-32
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• 2006

In recent years, since the digital camera has been popularized, so users can easily collect hundreds of photos in a single usage. Thus the managing of hundreds of digital photos is not a simple job comparing to the keeping paper photos. We know that managing and classifying a number of digital photo files are burdensome and annoying sometimes. So people hope to use an automated system for managing digital photos especially for their own purposes. The previous studies, e.g. content-based image retrieval, were focused on the clustering of general images, which it is not to be applied on digital photo clustering and classification. Recently, some specialized clustering algorithms for images clustering digital camera images were proposed. These algorithms exploit mainly the statistics of time gap between sequent photos. Though they showed a quite good result in image clustering for digital cameras, still lots of improvements are remained and unsolved. For example the current tools ignore completely the image transformation with the different focal lengths. In this paper, we present a photo considering focal length information recorded in EXIF. We propose an algorithms based on MVA(Matching Vector Analysis) for classification of digital images taken in the every day activity. Our experiment shows that our algorithm gives more than 95% success rates, which is competitive among all available methods in terms of sensitivity, specificity and flexibility.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.57-64
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• 2009

In this paper, 30 main cities are clustered based on precipitation, temperature, wind speed, photo period, and humidity. We found that the resulting clusters has strong relationships with geographical locations. These results make sense because, although Korea is a small country, Korean weather is known to have strong locality. The largest number of clusters is found when wind speed is used as an interested variable for clustering and the smallest number of clusters is found when photo period is used. The large number of clusters based on wind speed indicates that wind speed is affected easily by local geography.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.1-13
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• 2013

Recent advance and popularization of smart devices and web application services based on cloud computing have made end-users to directly produce and, at the same time, consume the image contents. This leads to demands of unified contents management services. Thus, this paper proposestag clustering method based on semantic similarity for effective image categorization. We calculate the cost of semantic similarity between tags and cluster tags that are closely related. If tags are in a cluster, we suppose that images with them are also in a same cluster. Furthermore, we could recommend tags for new images on the basis of initial clusters.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.309-310
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.205-206
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• 2007