• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.25-33
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• 2010

With the popularization of digital photography, people are now capturing and storing far more photos than ever before. However, the enormous number of photos often discourages the users to identify desired photos. In this paper, we present a novel method for fast and intuitive browsing through large collections of geo-referenced photographs. Given a set of photos, we construct a hierarchical structure of clusters such that each cluster includes a set of spatially adjacent photos and its sub-clusters divide the photo set disjointly. For each cluster, we pre-compute its convex hull and the corresponding polygon area. At run-time, this pre-computed data allows us to efficiently visualize only a fraction of the clusters that are inside the current view and have easily recognizable sizes with respect to the current zoom level. Each cluster is displayed as a single polygon representing its convex hull instead of every photo location included in the cluster. The users can quickly transfer from clusters to clusters by simply selecting any interesting clusters. Our system automatically pans and zooms the view until the currently selected cluster fits precisely into the view with a moderate size. Our user study demonstrates that these new visualization and interaction techniques can significantly improve the capability of navigating over large collections of geo-referenced photos.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.1 s.30
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• pp.15-27
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• 2006

In this paper, a novel approach is addressed to facilitate the browsing of large collection of digital photos associated with specified person(s) in the photos. The goal of the proposed method is to exploit additional person-identity features as incorporating facial regions and peripheral clothes region associated with them. For more effective incorporation of the clothes and facial features, situation-based photo clustering is also proposed. To evaluate the efficacy of the proposed method experiment was performed with 1120 generic home photos. The experiment results showed that the proposed method outperformed the conventional method us El.g only face feature as showing the average performance of about 92% contrary to the average performance of about 70% in the conventional method.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.4 s.107
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• pp.417-420
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• 2006

Detection of faces on still color images with arbitrary backgrounds is attempted in this paper. The newly proposed method is invariant to arbitrary background, number of faces, scale, orientation, skin color, and illumination through the steps of color clustering, cluster scanning, sub-block processing, face area detection, and face verification. The sub-block method makes the proposed method invariant to the size and the number of faces in the image. The proposed method does not need any pre-training steps or a preliminary face database. The proposed method may be applied to areas such as security control, video and photo indexing, and other automatic computer vision-related fields.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.498-501
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• 2011

최근 모바일 기기의 저장장치 용량이 늘어나면서 사용자는 대량의 사진을 휴대하고 다닌다. 하지만 현재 대량의 사진을 한정적 크기의 화면에 효과적으로 보여줄 수 있는 인터페이스가 부족하다. 모바일 기기에서 사용자 입장에서 편의성을 제공하는 사진 브라우징을 위해서는 직관적인 탐색 방법과 탐색시간을 단축시키는 방법이 필요하다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 모바일 기기에 저장된 사진들에 대해 이벤트 별사진을 자동 분류하며 이벤트 내의 객체 인식을 통해 이벤트에 자주 나오는 객체 정보들을 제공하여 직관적인 브라우징이 가능하도록 하는 방법들을 제안한다. 제안한 방법으로는 이벤트 기반의 브라우징과 객체 기반의 브라우징 방법이 있다. 이벤트 기반의 브라우징을 위해서 시간과 위치정보를 이용하여 이벤트를 군집화하고 통계적 자료에 근거한 이벤트 자동 경계 검출 방법을 사용했다. 또한 객체 기반의 브라우징을 위해서 객체 인식을 통해 사진들을 객체별로 분류하는 방법을 사용하였다. 사진내에서 객체의 인식을 위해 BoW(Bag of Word)를 사용하였으며 인식율을 높이기 위해 TF-IDF를 적용한 방법을 제안하였다. 본 방법은 기존의 방식에 비해 객체 인식률이 더 높음을 확인했다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.442-446
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• 2010

In this paper we propose an indexing method supporting the browsing scheme for effective image search on large photo database. The proposed method is based on M-tree, a representative indexing scheme on matrix space. While M-tree focuses on the searching efficiency by pruning, it did not consider browsing efficiency directly. This paper proposes node selection method, node splitting method and node splitting conditions for browsing efficiency. According to test results, node cohesion and clustering precision improved 1.5 and twice the original respectively and searching speed also increased twice the original speed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.442-447
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• 2006

디지털 카메라의 대중화와 고용량 저장매체의 보편화로 인해 대중들은 손쉽게 디지털 사진 촬영이 가능하게 되었다. 디지털 사진은 필름 사진과 달리 촬영을 하는데 있어 비용이 들지 않을 뿐만 아니라 플래쉬 메모리의 증가로 인해 다수의 사진들을 촬영할 수 있게 되었으나 그만큼 많은 사진들을 관리하고 분류하는 것은 쉽지 않은 일이 되었다. 따라서 디지털 사진을 자동으로 분류하고 관리하는 기능은 중요한 과제가 되었지만, 현재까지 나온 방법들은 사진 내의 객체가 확대, 축소 및 이동하거나 배경이 바뀌는 영상에 있어서 정확한 유사도를 측정하여 분류하는데 어려움이 있었다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 어려움을 보완한 디지털 사진의 클러스터링 알고리즘을 제안한다. 입력영상을 그리드 형태로 나누어 각 블록별로 측정한 유사도 값을 바탕으로 클러스터링하며, 이때 디지털 사진 내에 포함되어 있는 촬영정보인 EXIF를 이용하여 입력 영상에 따라 적응적(adaptive)으로 그리드를 나누어 비교한다. 또한, 영상에 따라 각기 다른 색상의 분포 정도를 고려해 색상 가중치를 고려하여 사진을 비교함으로써, 영상의 고수준(high-level) 분석에서처럼 객체와 배경을 추출하여 따로 분리하지 않고도 객체의 배경이 다른 사진들을 저수준(low-level) 에서 분석이 가능토록 하였다. 제안한 방법으로 실험한 결과 객체의 크기 및 이동이나 배경에 큰 영향을 받지 않으면서 입력영상들을 클러스터링 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.39-50
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• 2024

Color is an essential visual element that has a significant impact on the formation of a city's image and people's perceptions. Quantitative analysis of color in urban environments is a complex process that has been difficult to implement in the past. However, with recent rapid advances in Machine Learning, it has become possible to analyze city colors using photos shared by tourists. This study selected Dali City, a popular tourist destination in China, as a case study. Photos of Dali City shared by tourists were collected, and a method to measure large-scale city colors was explored by combining machine learning techniques. Specifically, the DeepLabv3+ model was first applied to perform a semantic segmentation of tourist sharing photos based on the ADE20k dataset, thereby separating artificial elements in the photos. Next, the K-means clustering algorithm was used to extract colors from the artificial elements in Dali City, and an adjacency matrix was constructed to analyze the correlations between the dominant colors. The research results indicate that the main color of the artificial elements in Dali City has the highest percentage of orange-grey. Furthermore, gray tones are often used in combination with other colors. The results indicated that local ethnic and Buddhist cultures influence the color characteristics of artificial elements in Dali City. This research provides a new method of color analysis, and the results not only help Dali City to shape an urban color image that meets the expectations of tourists but also provide reference materials for future urban color planning in Dali City.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.66-77
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• 2011

We propose a framework for grouping photographic advertising images that employs a hierarchical indexing scheme based on efficient feature combinations. The study provides one specific application of effective tools for monitoring photographic advertising information through online and offline channels. Specifically, it develops a preprocessor for advertising image information tracking. We consider both global features that contain general information on the overall image and local features that are based on local image characteristics. The developed local features are invariant under image rotation and scale, the addition of noise, and change in illumination. Thus, they successfully achieve reliable matching between different views of a scene across affine transformations and exhibit high accuracy in the search for matched pairs of identical images. The method works with global features in advance to organize coarse clusters that consist of several image groups among the image data and then executes fine matching with local features within each cluster to construct elaborate clusters that are separated by identical image groups. In order to decrease the computational time, we apply a conventional clustering method to group images together that are similar in their global characteristics in order to overcome the drawback of excessive time for fine matching time by using local features between identical images.

• The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.510-524
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• 2009

Objective : This study was designed to find the correlation between Sasang Constitution and heart rate variability(HRV). Method : There were 665 subjects (280 men and 385 women), between 39 and 72 years old. in a rural community. Sasang Constitution was diagnosed by a Sasang constitutional specialist using PSSC (Phonetic System for Sasang Constitution), face and tongue photo and checkup-list. A structured-questionnaire was used to assess the general characteristics. HRV was recorded using SA-2000 (medi-core). HRV was assessed by time domain and by frequency domain analysis. Metabolic syndrome was defined on the basis of clustering of risk factors, when three or more of the following cardiovascular risk factors were included : blood pressure, fasting blood sugar, triglyceride HDL-cholesterol, and abdominal obesity (waist). Because of the skewness of the data, logarithmic transformation was performed on the absolute units of the spectral components of HRV, and the resulting logarithmic values and normalized units were compared between the groups by a logistic regression. The 95% confidence interval (CI) of the odds ratio was used and calculated from the data laid out for a cross sectional study. Results : 1. Odds ratios of Taeeumin and Soeumin in female adults below 60 years old were significantly lower than that of Soyangin in LF norm and LF/HF ratio. Odds ratios of Taeeumin and Soeumin in female adults below 60 years old were significantly higher than that of Soyangin in HF norm. 2. There was no significant correlation between HRV and Sasang Constitution in female adults from 60 years old and over. 3. There was no significant correlation between HRV and Sasang Constitution in male adults. Conclusion : There is a statistically significant correlation between the HRV and Sasang Constitution. There is a tendency of increase in the sympathetic activity in Soyangin. There is a tendency of decrease in the parasympathetic activity in Taeeumin and Soeumin.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.85-97
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• 2010

Internet communities are a typical space for knowledge creation and use on the Internet as people discuss their common interests within the internet communities. When we define 'Knowledge Communities' as internet communities that are related to knowledge creation and use, they are categorized into 4 different types such as 'Search Engine,' 'Open Communities,' 'Specialty Communities,' and 'Activity Communities.' Each type of knowledge community does not remain the same, for example. Rather, it changes with time and is also affected by the external business environment. Therefore, it is critical to develop processes for practical use of such changeable knowledge communities. Yet there is little research regarding a strategic framework for knowledge communities as a source of knowledge creation and use. The purposes of this study are (1) to find factors that can affect knowledge creation and use for each type of knowledge community and (2) to develop a strategic framework for practical use of the knowledge communities. Based on previous research, we found 7 factors that have considerable impacts on knowledge creation and use. They were 'Fitness,' 'Reliability,' 'Systemicity,' 'Richness,' 'Similarity,' 'Feedback,' and 'Understanding.' We created 30 different questions from each type of knowledge community. The questions included common sense, IT, business and hobbies, and were uniformly selected from various knowledge communities. Instead of using survey, we used these questions to ask users of the 4 representative web sites such as Google from Search Engine, NAVER Knowledge iN from Open Communities, SLRClub from Specialty Communities, and Wikipedia from Activity Communities. These 4 representative web sites were selected based on popularity (i.e., the 4 most popular sites in Korea). They were also among the 4 most frequently mentioned sitesin previous research. The answers of the 30 knowledge questions were collected and evaluated by the 11 IT experts who have been working for IT companies more than 3 years. When evaluating, the 11 experts used the above 7 knowledge factors as criteria. Using a stepwise linear regression for the evaluation of the 7 knowledge factors, we found that each factors affects differently knowledge creation and use for each type of knowledge community. The results of the stepwise linear regression analysis showed the relationship between 'Understanding' and other knowledge factors. The relationship was different regarding the type of knowledge community. The results indicated that 'Understanding' was significantly related to 'Reliability' at 'Search Engine type', to 'Fitness' at 'Open Community type', to 'Reliability' and 'Similarity' at 'Specialty Community type', and to 'Richness' and 'Similarity' at 'Activity Community type'. A strategic framework was created from the results of this study and such framework can be useful for knowledge communities that are not stable with time. For the success of knowledge community, the results of this study suggest that it is essential to ensure there are factors that can influence knowledge communities. It is also vital to reinforce each factor has its unique influence on related knowledge community. Thus, these changeable knowledge communities should be transformed into an adequate type with proper business strategies and objectives. They also should be progressed into a type that covers varioustypes of knowledge communities. For example, DCInside started from a small specialty community focusing on digital camera hardware and camerawork and then was transformed to an open community focusing on social issues through well-known photo galleries. NAVER started from a typical search engine and now covers an open community and a special community through additional web services such as NAVER knowledge iN, NAVER Cafe, and NAVER Blog. NAVER is currently competing withan activity community such as Wikipedia through the NAVER encyclopedia that provides similar services with NAVER encyclopedia's users as Wikipedia does. Finally, the results of this study provide meaningfully practical guidance for practitioners in that which type of knowledge community is most appropriate to the fluctuated business environment as knowledge community itself evolves with time.