• The Journal of Information Technology and Database
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.19-28
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• 1999

Digital image and video libraries require new algorithms for the automated extraction and indexing of salient image features. Eigen values of an image provide one important cue for the discrimination of image content. In this paper we propose a new approach for automated content extraction that allows efficient database searching using eigen values. The algorithm automatically extracts eigen values from the image matrix represented by the covariance matrix for the image. We demonstrate that the eigen values representing shape information and the skewness of its distribution representing complexity provide good performance in image query response time while providing effective discriminability. We present the eigen value extraction and indexing techniques. We test the proposed algorithm of searching by eigen value and its skewness on a database of 100 images.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.33-42
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• 2001

Recently, the interests in the 3D image, generated from the range data and CAD, have exceedingly increased, accordingly a various 3D image database is being constructed. The efficient and fast scheme to access the desired image data is the important issue in the application area of the Internet and digital library. However, it is difficult to manage the 3D image database because of its huge size. Therefore, a proper descriptor is necessary to manage the data efficiently, including the content-based search. In this paper, the proposed shape descriptor is based on the voxelization of the 3D image. The medial axis transform, stemming from the mathematical morphology, is performed on the voxelized 3D image and the graph, which is composed of node and edge, is generated from skeletons. The generated graph is adequate to the novel shape descriptor due to no loss of geometric information and the similarity of the insight of the human. Therefore the proposed shape descriptor would be useful for the recognition of 3D object, compression, and content-based search.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.95-105
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• 2006

This paper proposes a novel approach to represent the image by using shape descriptor having an information of area. The proposed descriptor is a set of vectors, consists of radius, area and direction parameters in the concentrated center point. Due to the area parameter, we know our descriptor can obtain the information of area. Also, we give an extended shape descriptor to get more detailed representation. To do this, we move the center point of our vision to that point for region of interest. By doing so about all of region of interest, we can get our descriptor for detailed information of the image. From more detailed descriptor, it's natural that it's more efficient fur representation, retrievals and so on. We make it the normalized pattern and expand to improve its quality. The proposed method is invariant to scale, position and rotation. The results show that it can be used efficiently for image representation as we can see in retrievals of silhouette images.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.1 s.111
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• pp.5-12
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• 2007

This paper gives a novel approach that can be represented an image efficiently with its region and shape information together. To do this, we introduced a region-centralized shape descriptor(RCSD) that the size of region only exists at a center point. RCSD consists of circles with three parameters, the distance and the angle between the tenter points, and the diameter, respectively We verified the RCSD parameters to have an information of shape. We can be proved this by reconstructing the shape from the given parameters and evaluated the difference between the its image and the original one. To get this image, we find the estimated points on the contour from the parameters, and connect them by using an interpolation. According to the evaluation, we obtained 88% performance for real images, and showed that it can be used efficiently for representing the binary images. Also we cu make RCSD parameters to be the normalized patterns to have an invariant of its scale or position, and expand them to improve the quality of the performance.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.10
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• pp.1332-1344
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• 2004

Upon development of information super-highway and multimedia-related technoiogies in recent years, more efficient technologies to transmit, store and retrieve the multimedia data are required. Among such technologies, firstly, it is common that the semantic-based image retrieval is annotated separately in order to give certain meanings to the image data and the low-level property information that include information about color, texture, and shape Despite the fact that the semantic-based information retrieval has been made by utilizing such vocabulary dictionary as the key words that given, however it brings about a problem that has not yet freed from the limit of the existing keyword-based text information retrieval. The second problem is that it reveals a decreased retrieval performance in the content-based image retrieval system, and is difficult to separate the object from the image that has complex background, and also is difficult to extract an area due to excessive division of those regions. Further, it is difficult to separate the objects from the image that possesses multiple objects in complex scene. To solve the problems, in this paper, I established a content-based retrieval system that can be processed in 5 different steps. The most critical process of those 5 steps is that among RGB images, the one that has the largest and the smallest background are to be extracted. Particularly. I propose the method that extracts the subject as well as the background by using an Image, which has the largest background. Also, to solve the second problem, I propose the method in which multiple objects are separated using RGB channel selection techniques having optimized the excessive division of area by utilizing Watermerge's threshold value with the object separation using the method of RGB channels separation. The tests proved that the methods proposed by me were superior to the existing methods in terms of retrieval performances insomuch as to replace those methods that developed for the purpose of retrieving those complex objects that used to be difficult to retrieve up until now.

• 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 Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.299-302
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• 2001

이미지 검색 시스템이란 이미지가 갖는 다양한 특징을 바탕으로 똑같거나 유사한 이미지를 검색하여 제공하는 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 이미지의 컬러와 형태를 기반으로 한 브랜드 이미지 검색 시스템을 제시한다. 이미지를 영역별로 분할하여 영역별 컬러 분포 히스토그램을 추출하여 컬러 정보로 이용하고 경계면 추출, 무게 중심 추출, angular 샘플링 등의 전처리 과정과 무게 중심으로부터 경계면까지 거리의 합, 표준 편차, 장/단축 비율을 계산하여 형태정보로 이용한다. 이렇게 추출된 컬러와 형태 정보를 이용하여 유사성 측정을 통한 검색을 수행한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.412-415
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 영상 검색에 있어서 객체의 특징치를 추출하는데 많은 시간과 비용이 따르므로 수행속도를 향상시키기 위해 영상의 공간적인 정보를 이용한 영상의 압축을 이용하는 내용기반 영상 검색을 제안하고자 한다. 압축 성능이 뛰어나며 영상의 위치 정보와 주파수 정보를 가지는 EZW(Embedded Zerotree Wavelet)알고리즘을 이용하여 영상을 김색하는 방안으로 EZW 변환 후 얻어지는 저 대역 부 밴드에서의 공간적인 특성을 고려한 특징 값을 이용하여 정지영상의 대표 특징들을 형태와 질감으로 빠르게 영상 검색하고자 한다.

• 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.