• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.1453-1461
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• 2015

Since digital images and videos are rapidly increasing in the internet with the spread of mobile computers and smartphones, research on image retrieval has gained tremendous momentum. Color, shape, and texture are major features used in image retrieval. Especially, color information has been widely used in image retrieval, because it is robust in translation, rotation, and a small change of camera view. This paper proposes a new method for histogram refinement based on local color difference. Firstly, the proposed method converts a RGB color image into a HSV color image. Secondly, it reduces the size of color space from 256³ to 32. It classifies pixels in the 32-color image into three groups according to the color difference between a central pixel and its neighbors in a 3x3 local region. Finally, it makes a color difference vector(CDV) representing three refined color histograms, then image retrieval is performed by the CDV matching. The experimental results using public image database show that the proposed method has higher retrieval accuracy than other conventional ones. They also show that the proposed method can be effectively applied to search low resolution images such as thumbnail images.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.65-77
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• 2014

To address the problem of multi-target retrieval (MTR) of remote sensing images, this study proposes a new object-level feature representation model. The model provides an enhanced application image representation that improves the efficiency of MTR. Generating the model in our scheme includes processes, such as object-oriented image segmentation, feature parameter calculation, and symbolic image database construction. The proposed model uses the spatial representation method of the extended nine-direction lower-triangular (9DLT) matrix to combine spatial relationships among objects, and organizes the image features according to MPEG-7 standards. A similarity metric method is proposed that improves the precision of similarity retrieval. Our method provides a trade-off strategy that supports flexible matching on the target features, or the spatial relationship between the query target and the image database. We implement this retrieval framework on a dataset of remote sensing images. Experimental results show that the proposed model achieves competitive and high-retrieval precision.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.161-164
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• 2002

We propose a new method for rotational image retrieval that it is based on highly related property between a spatial image and wavelet transform. The characteristics have an important role in the design of our algorithm. Our proposed algorithm for rotational image retrieval is to obtain same image or rotated image. Because our algorithm used an rotational image retrieval.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.1219-1232
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• 2004

최근 e-비즈니스나 인터넷 쇼핑몰 사이트에서 는 많은 양의 상품 이미지 정보와 컨텐츠를 취급하고 있으며 ,이로 인하여 이미지에 대한 효율적인 의미기반 검색의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 XML과 퍼지기술을 이용하여 웹상의 상품 이미지를 의미적으로 검색할 수 있는 시스템에 대해 설명한다. 상품 카탈로그와 같은 다중 객체를 보유하고 있는 이미지에 대하여 의미 기반 검색을 수행할 수 있도록 상품 정보나 의미등의 메타데이타를 표현하는 다계층 메타데이타 구조를 사용한다. 이미지에 대한 의미기반 검색을 수행할 수 있도록 하기 위해 메타데이타를 저장하기 위한 XML 데이타베이스를 설계하고 퍼지 데이타를 적용할 수 있는 방법을 연구하였다. 본 논문에서 제시한 시스템은 이미지에 대한 메타데이타를 이용하여 퍼지 데이터를 자동 생성하고, 생성된 퍼지 데이타를 의미기반 이미지 검색에 사용한다. 따라서 의미기반 상품 이미지 검색에 대하여 사용자의 검색질의에 대한 정확성과 만족도를 증대 시킬 수 있다.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.99-124
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• 2015

As the improvement of digital technologies increases the use of images from various fields, the domain of image retrieval has evolved and become a growing topic of research in the Library and Information Science field. The purpose of this study is to identify the knowledge structure of the image retrieval domain by using the author co-citation analysis and author bibliographic coupling as analytical tools in order to understand the domain's past and present. The data set for this study is 245 articles with 8,031 cited articles in the field of image retrieval from 1998 to 2013, from the Web of Science citation database. According to the results of author co-citation analysis for the past of the image retrieval domain, our findings demonstrate that the intellectual structure of image retrieval in the LIS field consists of predominantly user-oriented approaches, but also includes some areas influenced by the CBIR area. More specifically, the user-oriented approach contains six specific areas which include image needs, information seeking, image needs and search behavior, image indexing and access, indexing of image collection, and web image search. On the other hand, for CBIR approaches, it contains feature-based image indexing, shape-based indexing, and IR & CBIR. The recent trends of image retrieval based on the results from author bibliographic coupling analysis show that the domain is expanding to emerging areas of medical images, multimedia, ontology- and tag-based indexing which thus reflects a new paradigm of information environment.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.127-135
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• 2009

This paper presents a new technique for corner shape based object retrieval from a database. The proposed feature matrix consists of values obtained through a neighborhood operation of detected corners. This results in a significant small size feature matrix compared to the algorithms using color features and thus is computationally very efficient. The corners have been extracted by finding the intersections of the detected lines found using Hough transform. As the affine transformations preserve the co-linearity of points on a line and their intersection properties, the resulting corner features for image retrieval are robust to affine transformations. Furthermore, the corner features are invariant to noise. It is considered that the proposed algorithm will produce good results in combination with other algorithms in a way of incremental verification for similarity.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.451-454
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• 2003

A new query method, called query by visual keys, is proposed to aim easy operation and efficient region-based image retrieval (RBIR). Visual keys are constructed from representative regions/subimages in a given image database, and the database is indexed with visual keys. A system on PC is presented, where text retrieval techniques are applied to the image retrieval with visual keys. Experimental results show that one retrieval is done within 4ms and that the proposed system achieves the comparable retrieval precision (with user-friendly operation and low computational cost) to conventional region based image retrieval systems

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.889-898
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• 1997

Most general content-based image retrieval techniques use color and texture as retrieval indices. Spatial information is not used to color histogram and color pair based on color retrieval techniques. This paper proposes the selection of a set of representative in the duplicated color histogram, the analysis of spatial information of the selected colors and the image retrieval process based on the duplicated color histogram and spatial information. Two color historgrams for background and object are used in order to decide on color selection in the duplicated color histogram. Spatial information is obtained using a maximum entropy discretization. A retrieval process applies to duplicated color histogram and spatial to retrieve input images and relevant images. As the result of experiment of the image retrieval, improved color his togram and spatial information method hs increased the retrieval effectiveness more the color histogram method and color pair method.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.746-752
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• 2003

In this paper, we proposed an image retrieval system with a simple and effective relevance feedback, called RAP(Reward and Punishment) algorithm. First, color and texture features were extracted from the images. Next, the extracted feature values were used for image retrieval in various forms. We applied the relevance feedback to the initial retrieved images from the image retrieval system, and compared its result with that of the conventional system. In the experiment using the test image database of 16 class 512 images, the proposed system showed the better retrieval performance of about 10∼l7 % than that of the conventional INRIA system in each relevance feedback step.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.720-732
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• 1996

아이콘 이미지를 위한 공간 매치 검색기법은 이미지를 몇개의 인식가능한 심볼로 인식하고, 이것을 도큐먼트를 대표하는 값으로 받아들여 인덱싱한다. 사용자가 이미지에 대한 내용-본위 검색을 요구하면, 질의에 있는 이미지를 심볼로 변환한 후 접근기법을 통해 원하는 이미지를 검색한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이미지의 내용-본위 검색을 효율적으로 지원하기 위하여, 시그니쳐를 이용한 아이콘 이미지의 공간 매치 검색 기법을 제안하다. 이를 위하여 2차원 아이코닉 이미지에 대한 새로운 색인 표현 방법을 제시하며, 구현한 전체 시스템 구성을 설명한다. 아울러 기존의 9-DLT 방법과 정확률과 검색율면에서 성능평가를 수행하여, 제안하는 기법이 이미지의 내용-본위 검색에 효율적임을 보인다.