• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.229-232
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 새로운 HAC(Histogram Area Calculation)방법과 영상의 객체분할 방법을 소개한다. 히스토그램을 이용한 영상은 색상 공간의 특징 때문에 조명에 매우 민감하여 빛의 강도에 따라 유사성이 저하되는 경우가 있다. 또한 공간적 정보를 가지고 있지 않아, 전혀 다른 모양의 영상일지라도 칼라 분포가 같은 영상으로 볼 수 있다. 이 논문에서 제안한 방법은 히스토그램 영역을 임의의 영역으로 나눠, 영역들의 유사성을 매칭(matching) 시킨다. 2차 검색방법으로 원 영상에서의 색상 질감 정보가 동일한 영역을 군집화 하여, 영상 분할된 객체들을 이용하여 검색하는 방법이다. 실험 결과, 제안한 방법이 전통적인 히스토그램 방법보다 검색 성능이 효율적인 결과를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.887-890
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 내용기반 영상 데이터 검색을 위하여 변환 영역에서 위치 정보와 주파수 정보를 가지는 웨이블릿 성질을 이용하여 영상을 압축한 후에 저주파 성분에 의한 객체들의 특징을 추출하는 방안으로 Vector Quantization 을 이용한 class 별 영상 검색을 제시한다 내용기반 영상 검색의 주요특징들은 색상, 질감, 그리고 영상의 공간적인 특징을 고려한 특징 값 둥이 사용된다. 먼저 검색의 효율성을 높이기 위해 영상을 구성하는 특징 치 중에서 가장 빈도가 많은 class 부터 영상의 유사도를 검색한 후에 다음으로 영상을 구성하는 빈도가 큰 순서대로 DB 내에 저장되어 있는 영상과 비교를 하게 된다. DB내 영상 검색은 빈도수가 우선인 5개의 class를 기준으로 유사도를 측정해서 검색을 이룬다. 이러한 영상의 특징들을 어떻게 결합하고 특징 추출을 하느냐에 따라 검색의 효율성에 영향을 준다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 영상의 위치 정보와 주파수 정보를 가지는 웨이블릿 변환 후 얻어지는 저대역 부밴드에서의 공간적인 특성을 고려한 특징 값을 이용하여 Vector Quantization 알고리즘에 의해 정지영상의 객체 대표 특징들을 마르게 검색하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 Haar Wavelet과 Vector Quantization 에서 색상과 질감의 가중치를 적용한 후 DB 에 저장된 영상과 유사도를 검색하는 방법을 취하고자 한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.559-568
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• 2007

Anchor-person scene detection is of significance for video shot semantic parsing and indexing clues extraction in content-based news video indexing and retrieval system. This paper proposes an efficient algorithm extracting anchor ranges that exist in sports news video for unit structuring of sports news. To detect anchor person scenes, first, anchor person candidate scene is decided by DCT coefficients and motion vector information in the MPEG4 compressed video. Then, from the candidate anchor scenes, image processing method is utilized to classify the news video into anchor-person scenes and non-anchor(sports) scenes. The proposed scheme achieves a mean precision and recall of 98% in the anchor-person scenes detection experiment.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.1139-1149
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• 2006

This paper describes a novel and efficient algorithm, which extracts focused objects from still images with low depth-of-field (DOF). The algorithm unfolds into four modules. In the first module, a HOS map, in which the spatial distribution of the high-frequency components is represented, is obtained from an input low DOF image [1]. The second module finds OOI candidate by using characteristics of the HOS. Since it is possible to contain some holes in the region, the third module detects and fills them. In order to obtain an OOI, the last module gets rid of background pixels in the OOI candidate. The experimental results show that the proposed method is highly useful in various applications, such as image indexing for content-based retrieval from huge amounts of image database, image analysis for digital cameras, and video analysis for virtual reality, immersive video system, photo-realistic video scene generation and video indexing system.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.125-137
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• 2011

Recently the research on the system using images taken from camera phones as input is actively conducted. This paper proposed a system that shows wine pictures which are similar to the input wine label in order. For the calculation of the similarity of images, the representative color of each cell of the image, the recognized text color, background color and distribution of feature points are used as the features. In order to calculate the difference of the colors, RGB is converted into CIE-Lab and the feature points are extracted by using Harris Corner Detection Algorithm. The weights of representative color of each cell of image, text color and background color are applied. The image similarity is calculated by normalizing the difference of color similarity and distribution of feature points. After calculating the similarity between the input image and the images in the database, the images in Database are shown in the descent order of the similarity so that the effort of users to search for similar wine labels again from the searched result is reduced.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.91-97
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• 2009

This paper proposes novel FE-CBIRS that finds best position of a cut to be retrieved based on color feature distribution in digital contents of IPTV. Conventional CBIRS have used a method that utilizes both color and shape information together to classify images, as well as a method that utilizes both feature information of the entire region and feature information of a partial region that is extracted by segmentation for searching. Also, in the algorithm, average, standard deviation and skewness values are used in case of color features for each hue, saturation and intensity values respectively. Furthermore, in case of using partial regions, only a few major colors are used and in case of shape features, the invariant moment is mainly used on the extracted partial regions. Due to these reasons, some problems have been issued in CBIRS in processing time and accuracy so far. Therefore, in order to tackle these problems, this paper proposes the FE-CBIRS that makes searching speed faster by classifying and indexing the extracted color information by each class and by using several cuts that are restricted in range as comparative images.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.18-29
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• 2007

In this paper we present a system that classifies brain MR images by using 2 level decision tree learning. There are two kinds of information that can be obtained from images. One is the low-level features such as size, color, texture, and contour that can be acquired directly from the raw images, and the other is the high-level features such as existence of certain object, spatial relations between different parts that must be obtained through the interpretation of segmented images. Learning and classification should be performed based on the high-level features to classify images according to their semantic meaning. The proposed system applies decision tree learning to each level separately, and the high-level features are synthesized from the results of low-level classification. The experimental results with a set of brain MR images with tumor are discussed. Several experimental results that show the effectiveness of the proposed system are also presented.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.464-475
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• 2003

few sample objects and compressed histogram information of image databases. The histogram information is used to estimate the selectivity of spherical range queries and a small number of sample objects is used to compensate the selectivity error due to the difference of the similarity measures between meta server and local image databases. An extensive experiment on a large number of image data demonstrates that our proposed method performs well in the distributed heterogeneous environment.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.8
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• pp.1272-1277
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• 2017

To assist radiologists for the characterization of breast masses, Computer-aided Diagnosis(CADx) system has been studied. The CADx system can improve the diagnostic accuracy of radiologists by providing objective information about breast masses. Morphological and texture features were extracted from the breast ultrasound images. Based on extracted features, the CADx system retrieves masses that are similar to a query mass from a reference library using a k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) approach. Eight similarity measures of distance, Euclidean, Chebyshev(Minkowski family), Canberra, Lorentzian($F_2$ family), Wave Hedges, Motyka(Intersection family), and Cosine, Dice(Inner Product family) are evaluated by ROC(Receiver Operating Characteristic) analysis. The Inner Product family measure used with the k-NN classifier provided slightly higher performance for classification of malignant and benign masses than those with the Minkowski, $F_2$, and Intersection family measures.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.2294-2301
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• 1998

The aim of this paper is to extract features from each news scenes for example, symbol icon which can be distinct each broadcasting corp, icon and caption which are has feature and important information for the scene in respectively, In this paper, we propose extraction methods of caption that has important prohlem of news videos and it can be classified in three steps, First of al!, we converted that input images from video frame to YIQ color vector in first stage. And then, we divide input image into regions in clear hy using equalized color histogram of input image, In last, we extracts caption using edge histogram based on vertical and horizontal line, We also propose the method which can extract news icon in selected key frames by the difference of inter-histogram and can divide each scene by the extracted icon. In this paper, we used comparison method of edge histogram instead of complex methcxls based on color histogram or wavelet or moving objects, so we shorten computation through using simpler algorithm. and we shown good result of feature's extraction.