• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.300-307
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• 2012

When the volume of data grows big, some simple tasks could become a significant concern. Nearest neighbor search is such a task which finds from a data set the k nearest data points to queries. Locality-sensitive hashing techniques have been developed for approximate but fast nearest neighbor search. This paper introduces the notion of locality-sensitive hashing and surveys the locality-sensitive hashing techniques. It categories them based on several criteria, presents their characteristics, and compares their performance.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.199-208
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• 2000

The k-nearest neighbor search query based on similarity is very important for content-based multimedia information retrieval(MIR). The conventional exact k-nearest neighbor search algorithm is not efficient for the MIR application because multimedia data should be represented as high dimensional feature vectors. Thus, an approximate k-nearest neighbor search algorithm is required for the MIR applications because the performance increase may outweigh the drawback of receiving approximate results. For this, we propose a new approximate k-nearest neighbor search algorithm for high dimensional data. In addition, the comparison of the conventional algorithm with our approximate k-nearest neighbor search algorithm is performed in terms of retrieval performance. Results show that our algorithm is more efficient than the conventional ones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06c
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• pp.156-159
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• 2010

vp tree는 기준점(vantage point)과의 거리를 기준으로 데이터베이스 내의 자료를 색인하는 자료구조이다. 멀티미디어 자료 검색에서 비슷한 정도는 객체간의 거리를 바탕으로 비교하고, vp tree 색인 구조는 이 과정을 내포하고 있기 때문에 최근 멀티미디어 검색 연구에서 많이 사용되고 있다. 검색 방법에는 query와 가장 가까운 대상을 찾는 Nearest Neighbor Search, 또는 query와 가까운 k등까지를 검색하는 k-Nearest Neighbor Search가 있다. 본 논문에서는 Content-based retrieval에서 최근 자주 사용되는 vp tree에서 효과적인 k-NNS 방법을 제안하고, 기존의 전형적인 k-NNS 방법과의 비교 실험 결과를 보인다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.2 s.332
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• pp.83-88
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• 2005

We propose the design method for the VLSI architecture of FNNPDS combined PDS(partial distance search) and FNNS(fast nearest neighbor search), which are used to fast encoding in vector quantization, and obtain the results that FNNPDS(fast nearest neighbor partial distance search) is faster method than the conventional methods by simulation. In simulations, we investigate timing diagrams described searching time of the nearest codevector for an input vector, and compare the average clock cycles per input vector for Lena and Peppers images. According to the result of simulations, the number of the clock cycle of FNNPDS was reduced to $79.2\%\~11.7\%$ as compared with the number using the conventional techniques.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.405-414
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• 2016

IC-implementations provide high performance for solving the high computational cost of pattern matching but have relative low flexibility for satisfying different applications. In this paper, we report an associative memory architecture for k nearest neighbor (KNN) search, which is one of the most basic algorithms in pattern matching. The designed architecture features reconfigurable vector-component parallelism enabled by programmable switching circuits between vector components, and a dedicated majority vote circuit. In addition, the main time-consuming part of KNN is solved by a clock mapping concept based weighted frequency dividers that drastically reduce the in principle exponential increase of the worst-case search-clock number with the bit width of vector components to only a linear increase. A test chip in 180 nm CMOS technology, which has 32 rows, 8 parallel 8-bit vector-components in each row, consumes altogether in peak 61.4 mW and only 11.9 mW for nearest squared Euclidean distance search (at 45.58 MHz and 1.8 V).

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.1025-1030
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• 2004

In multimedia database systems, the k nearest neighbor query occurs frerluently and requires the processing cost higher than other spatial queries do. The numberof searched nodes and the computation time in an index can be minimized for optimizing the cost of processing the k nearest neighbor query. In this paper, we propose the search distance which can reduce the computation time of the optimal search distance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.3896-3915
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• 2014

The Reverse k Nearest Neighbor (RkNN) query is valuable for finding objects influenced by a specific object and is widely used in both scientific and commercial systems. However, the influence level of each object is unknown, information that is critical for some applications (e.g. target marketing). In this paper, we propose a new query type, Ordered Reverse k Nearest Neighbor (ORkNN), and make efforts to adapt it in an on-demand scenario. An Order-k Voronoi diagram based approach is used to answer ORkNN queries. In particular, for different values of k, we pre-construct only one Voronoi diagram. Algorithms on both the server and the clients are presented. We also present experimental results that suggest our proposed algorithms may have practical applications.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.1429-1432
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• 2003

This paper addresses the problem of finding a constrained nearest neighbor for moving query point(we call it CNNMP) The Nearest neighbor problem is classified by existence of a constrained region, the number of query result and movement of query point and target. The problem assumes that the query point is not static, as 1-nearest neighbor problem, but varies its position over time to the constrained region. The parameters as NC, NCMBR, CQR and QL for the algorithm are also presented. We suggest the query optimization algorithm in consideration of topological relationship among them

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.469-470
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• 2015

우리는 그룹핑 k-최근접 (Grouping k Nearest Neighbor; GkNN)질의를 지원하기 위하여 유연한 최근접객체(Flexible Nearest Neighbor; FNN)검색 방법을 제안한다. GkNN이란 기존에 제안된 kNN과 다르게 질의자가 요청한 k개의 객체를 모두 확인한 후에 이동 경로의 총합이 가장 작은 k개의 객체를 검색하는 방법이다. 기존 연구에서 제안된 최근접 객체들 (Nearest Neighborhood; NNH) 또한 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 제안되었다. 그러나 NNH의 문제점은 객체 k와 p가 고정되어 있기 때문에 이동 환경에서 q에서 C까지의 거리가 증가하는 것이다. FNN의 환경은 NNH의 환경과 유사하다. 우리는 NNH의 q에서 집합 C 중 거리 중 가장 짧은 $c_i$ 선택한 후 q에서 $c_i$에 포함된 객체들 모두 검색하는 이동 경로의 총합과 FNN의 이동경로의 총 합을 비교하여 NNH의 문제점을 해결하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.459-470
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• 2013

The discovery of nearest neighbors, without training in advance, has many applications, such as the formation of mosaic images, image matching, image retrieval and image stitching. When the quantity of data is huge and the number of dimensions is high, the efficient identification of a nearest neighbor (NN) is very important. This study proposes a variation of the KD-tree - the arbitrary KD-tree (KDA) - which is constructed without the need to evaluate variances. Multiple KDAs can be constructed efficiently and possess independent tree structures, when the amount of data is large. Upon testing, using extended synthetic databases and real-world SIFT data, this study concludes that the KDA method increases computational efficiency and produces satisfactory accuracy, when solving NN problems.