• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.126-132
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• 2011

In the application areas of LBS(Location Based Service) and ITS(Intelligent Transportation System), continuous k-nearest neighbor query(CkNN) which is defined as a query to find the nearest points of interest to all the points on a given path is widely used. It is necessary to acquire results quickly in the above applications and be applicable to spatial network databases. It is also able to cope successfully with frequent updates of POI objects. This paper proposes a new method to search nearest POIs for moving query objects on the spatial networks. The method produces a set of split points and their corresponding k-POIs as results with partial order among k-POIs. The results obtained from experiments with real dataset show that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods. The proposed method achieves very short processing time(15%) compared with the existing method.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.479-488
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• 2009

The ${\kappa}$-Nearest Neighbors Classification(KNNC) is a popular non-parametric classification method which assigns a fixed number ${\kappa}$ of neighbors to every observation without consideration of the local feature of the each observation. In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Nearest Neighbors Classification(ANNC) as an alternative to KNNC. The proposed ANNC method adapts the number of neighbors according to the local feature of the observation such as density of data. To verify characteristics of ANNC, we compare the number of misclassified observation with KNNC by Monte Carlo study and confirm the potential performance of ANNC method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.2530-2536
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• 2014

Many studies have been made on location estimation under indoor environments which GPS signals do not reach, and, as a result, a variety of estimation methods have been proposed. In this paper, we deeply consider a problem of location estimation in a ship with a multi-story structure, and investigate a location estimation method using the fingerprint scheme based on the K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm. A reliable DB is constructed by measuring 100 received signals at each of 39 RPs in order to employ the fingerprint scheme, and, based on the DB, a simulation to estimate the location of a randomly-positioned terminal is performed. The simulation result confirms that the performance of location estimation by the fingerprint scheme is quite satisfactory.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a loitering detection using trajectory probability distribution and local direction descriptor for intelligent surveillance system. We use a background modeling method for detecting moving object and extract the motion features from each moving object for making feature vectors. After that, we detect the loitering behavior person using K-Nearest Neighbor classifier. We test the proposed method in real world environment and it can achieve real time and robust detection results.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.4476-4490
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• 2017

The aim of image annotation is to determine labels that can accurately describe the semantic information of images. Many approaches have been proposed to automate the image annotation task while achieving good performance. However, in most cases, the semantic similarities of images are ignored. Towards this end, we propose a novel Visual-Semantic Nearest Neighbor (VS-KNN) method by collectively exploring visual and semantic similarities for image annotation. First, for each label, visual nearest neighbors of a given test image are constructed from training images associated with this label. Second, each neighboring subset is determined by mining the semantic similarity and the visual similarity. Finally, the relevance between the images and labels is determined based on maximum a posteriori estimation. Extensive experiments were conducted using three widely used image datasets. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method in comparison with state-of-the-arts methods.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.739-745
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• 2017

This paper presents and discusses an implementation of the GPU shifted sorting method to find approximate k nearest neighbors which executes within "warp", the minimum execution unit in GPU parallel architecture. Also, this paper presents the comparison results with other two common nearest neighbor searching methods, GPU-based kd-tree and ANN (Approximate Nearest Neighbor) library. The proposed implementation focuses on the cases when k is small, i.e. 2, 4, 8, and 16, which are handled efficiently within warp to consider it is very common for applications to handle small k's. Also, this paper discusses optimization ways to implementation by improving memory management in a loop for the CUB open library and adopting CUDA commands which are supported by GPU hardware. The proposed implementation shows more than 16-fold speed-up against GPU-based other methods in the tests, implying that the improvement would become higher for more larger input data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.423-426
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• 2005

기억기반학습의 일종인 최근접 이웃(k nearest neighbor) 알고리즘은 과거의 데이터들 중에서 새로운 개체와 유사한 데이터들을 이용해서 새로운 개체의 목적 값을 예측하는 것이다. 이 경우 속성의 가중치를 계산하는 방식은 kNN의 성능을 결정하는 중요한 요소가 된다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 다른 이론들과 달리 정보이론에서 사용되는 엔트로피 개념을 이용해서 속성의 가중치를 이론적이고, 효과적으로 계산하는 새로운 방법을 제시하고자한다. 제안된 방법은 각 속성이 목적속성에 제공하는 정보의 양에 따라 가중치를 자동으로 계산하여 kNN의 성능을 향상시킨다. 마지막으로 이러한 방식의 성능을 다수의 실험을 통해 비교하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06c
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• pp.376-380
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• 2008

사회의 복잡화와 인터넷의 성장으로 폭발적으로 늘어나고 있는 정보들을 사용자가 모두 검토한 후 여과하기는 어려운 일이다. 이러한 문제를 보완하기 위해서 자동화된 정보 여과 기술이 사용되는데, k-최근접 이웃(k-nearest neighbor) 알고리즘은 그 구현이 간단하며 비교적 정확하여 가장 널리 쓰이고 있는 알고리즘 중 하나이다. k 개의 최근접 이웃들로부터 평가값을 계산하는 데 흔히 쓰이는 방법은 상관계수를 이용한 가중치에 기반하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 이를 보완하여 대규모 데이터에 대해서도 속도는 크게 저하되지 않으며 정확도는 대폭 향상시킬 수 있는 방법을 적용하였다. 또한, 최근접 이웃을 구하는 거리함수로 다양한 방법을 시도하였다. 영화추천을 위한 실제 데이터에 대한 실험 결과, 속도의 저하는 미미하였으나 정확도에 있어서는 크게 향상된 결과를 가져올 수 있었다.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.127-131
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• 2008

Ambrosia beetle, Platypus koryoensis, is a vector of oak wilt disease caused by Raffaelea sp. in Korea. The degree of damage by oak wilt disease was dependent on the density of the beetles in the oak trunk, a relationship between the degree of damage by oak wilt disease and the density of beetle on the basis of the number of entry hole was studied. Entry hole distribution within tree trunk was analyzed by the nearest neighbor method. Thirty four oak trees (Quercus mongolica) located in survey area were selected and then degree of damage, the number of attack hole/$623cm^2$ in upper (50cm from the surface) and lower (surface) trunk and the nearest neighbor distance between the holes were measured. The number of hole and the nearest neighbor distance in upper and lower part were positively correlated with each other. As the degree of damage was severer, the number of the holes increased, whereas the nearest neighbor distance decreased. The distribution pattern of the hole was changed from clumped one to uniform as the severity of damage increased. These results suggested that Platypus koryoensis attacked the oak tree in concentrative manner at initial stage of attack but at final stage, it distributed uniformly to reduce intraspecific competition between the beetles.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.784-791
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• 2004

In this study, we deal with face recognition using fuzzy-based Fisherface method. The well-known Fisherface method is more insensitive to large variation in light direction, face pose, and facial expression than Principal Component Analysis method. Usually, the various methods of face recognition including Fisherface method give equal importance in determining the face to be recognized, regardless of typicalness. The main point here is that the proposed method assigns a feature vector transformed by PCA to fuzzy membership rather than assigning the vector to particular class. In this method, fuzzy membership degrees are obtained from FKNN(Fuzzy K-Nearest Neighbor) initialization. Experimental results show better recognition performance than other methods for ORL and Yale face databases.