• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.1657-1664
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• 2004

We propose a method that classifies images into two object types man-made and natural objects. A central object is extracted from each image by using central object extraction method[1] before classification. A central object in an images defined as a set of regions that lies around center of the image and has significant color distribution against its surrounding. We define three measures to classify the object images. The first measure is energy of edge direction histogram. The energy is calculated based on the direction of only non-circular edges. The second measure is an energy difference along directions in Gabor filter dictionary. Maximum and minimum energy along directions in Gabor filter dictionary are selected and the energy difference is computed as the ratio of the maximum to the minimum value. The last one is a shape of an object, which is also represented by Gabor filter dictionary. Gabor filter dictionary for the shape of an object differs from the one for the texture in an object in which the former is computed from a binarized object image. Each measure is combined by using majority rule tin which decisions are made by the majority. A test with 600 images shows a classification accuracy of 86%.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.9D no.1
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• pp.57-64
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• 2002

Few studies have been systematically pursued on a multimedia data mining in despite of the overwhelming amounts of multimedia data by the development of computer capacity, storage technology and Internet. Based on the preliminary image processing and content-based image retrieval technology, this paper presents the methods for discovering association rules from recurrent items with spatial relationships in huge data repositories. Furthermore, multimedia mining algorithm is proposed to find implicit association rules among objects of which content-based descriptors such as color, texture, shape and etc. are recurrent and of which descriptors have spatial relationships. The algorithm with recurrent items in images shows high efficiency to find set of frequent items as compared to the Apriori algorithm. The multimedia association-rules algorithm is specially effective when the collection of images is homogeneous and it can be applied to many multimedia-related application fields.

• 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.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.281-289
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• 2002

Few studies have been systematically pursued on a multimedia data mining in despite of the over-whelming amounts of multimedia data by the development of computer capacity, storage technology and Internet. Based on the preliminary image processing and content-based image retrieval technology, this paper presents the methods for discovering association rules from recurrent items with spatial relationships in huge data repositories. Furthermore, multimedia mining algorithm is proposed to find implicit association rules among objects of which content-based descriptors such as color, texture, shape and etc. are recurrent and of which descriptors have spatial relationships. The algorithm with recurrent items in images shows high efficiency to find set of frequent items as compared to the Apriori algorithm. The multimedia association-rules algorithm is specially effective when the collection of images is homogeneous and it can be applied to many multimedia-related application fields.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.10C
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• pp.1007-1016
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• 2005

This paper presents a feature extraction method for shape based retrieval of 3D models. Since the feature descriptor of 3D model should be invariant to translation, rotation and scaling, it is necessary to preprocess the 3D models to represent them in a canonical coordinate system. We use the PCA(Principal Component Analysis) method to preprocess the 3D models. Also, we apply that to make a MBR(Minimum Boundary Rectangle) and a circumsphere. The proposed algorithm is as follows. We generate a circumsphere around 3D models, where radius equals 1(r=1) and locate each model in the center of the circumsphere. We produce the concentric spheres with a different radius($r_i=i/n,\;i=1,2,{\ldots},n$). After looking for meshes intersected with the concentric spheres, we compute the curvature of the meshes. We use these curvatures as the model descriptor. Experimental results numerically show the performance improvement of proposed algorithm from min. 0.1 to max. 0.6 in comparison with conventional methods by ANMRR, although our method uses .relatively small bins. This paper uses $R{^*}-tree$ as the indexing.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.328-331
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• 2008

많은 양의 이미지를 포함하고 있는 대용량 데이터베이스에 대한 이미지 검색에서 보다 짧은 시간에 적은 양의 검색공간을 사용하면서 원하는 결과를 얻을 수 있는 이미지 인덱싱 기법에 대한 다양한 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 외형 기반의 이미지 검색에서 기존의 인덱싱 기법보다 빠른 검색을 지원할 수 있는 해시 기반의 새로운 인덱싱 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 해시 기반 인덱싱 기법에서는 해시 주소 계산을 위해 인덱스 값의 범위가 미리 정해져야 하기 때문에 색상 정보 등 소수의 특징 정보를 제외하고는 인덱싱에 널리 사용되지 못하고 있다. 한편, 제안된 해시 구조는 값의 범위가 정해지지 않은 정수형의 인덱스 값을 기반으로 효과적으로 이미지 인덱스를 구축할 수 있다. 효과적인 이미지 검색을 위해 제안된 인덱스를 기반한 범위검색(Range Search) 기법을 제안하였으며, 실험을 통해 제안된 인덱스 구조에서의 범위 검색이 기존의 인덱스 구조에 비해 보다 효과적임을 보인다.

• 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 the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.1-14
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• 2010

With the rapid growth of 3D content industry fields, 3D content-based hashing (or hash function) has been required to apply to authentication, trust and retrieval of 3D content. A content hash can be a random variable for compact representation of content. But 3D content-based hashing has been not researched yet, compared with 2D content-based hashing such as image and video. This paper develops a robust 3D content-based hashing based on key-dependent 3D surface feature. The proposed hashing uses the block surface coefficient using shape coordinate of 3D SSD and curvedness for 3D surface feature and generates a binary hash by a permutation key and a random key. Experimental results verified that the proposed hashing has the robustness against geometry and topology attacks and has the uniqueness of hash in each model and key.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.73-83
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• 2009

In this paper we propose an object similarity matching method based on shape characteristics of an object in an image. The proposed method extracts edge points from edges of objects and generates a log polar histogram with respect to each edge point to represent the relative placement of extracted points. It performs the matching in such a way that it compares polar histograms of two edge points sequentially along with edges of objects, and uses a well-known k-NN(nearest neighbor) approach to retrieve similar objects from a database. To verify the proposed method, we've compared it to an existing Shape-Context method. Experimental results reveal that our method is more accurate in object matching than the existing method, showing that when k=5, the precision of our method is 0.75-0.90 while that of the existing one is 0.37, and when k=10, the precision of our method is 0.61-0.80 while that of the existing one is 0.31. In the experiment of rotational transformation, our method is also more robust compared to the existing one, showing that the precision of our method is 0.69 while that of the existing one is 0.30.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06d
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• pp.346-348
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• 2006

본 논문은 잎맥 특징을 이용한 식물의 잎 이미지 검색 방법을 제안한다. 식물의 검색을 위해 모양 기반의 검색방법을 사용하였으며, 잎의 외곽선 분만 아니라 내부의 잎맥 정보를 이용하여 정확율을 향상시켰다. 외곽선은 MPP(Minimum Perimeter Polygons) 알고리즘을 개선하여 표현하고, 내부의 잎맥의 특징은 CSS(Curvature Scale Space)를 개선하여 주맥과 교차점, 끝점을 추출하여 표현하였다. 특징 점들간의 관계와 거리값을 통해 가중치가 있는 그래프로 표현하고 이 값을 통해 유사도를 계산하였다. 실험에서는 식물도감에서 1000여개의 식물 잎 이미지를 추출하여 기존의 알고리즘인 Fourier Descriptor, CSSD, CCD, Moment Invariants, MPP와 비교하였다.