• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.6
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• pp.753-758
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• 2002

This paper proposes the color Cross-correlogram and its extraction method for efficient image retrieval. Color cross-correlogram represents the probability that different colors are existed at any two pixels whose distance is fixed in an image. Color cross-correlogram doesn't have the information about the region size that has a color, so color cross-correlogram can have good performance in retrieving images that have different size color regions. The experiments say that we can get the good retrieval results in the images that have various size color regions, and get the better retrieval results when using color cross-correlogram than those of retrieval using color correlogram.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.275-282
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• 2006

For the efficient image retrieval, the method has studied that uses color distribution and relations between pixels. This paper presents the color descriptor that stands high above the others in image retrieval capacity. It is based on color co-occurrence histogram that the diagonal part and the non-diagonal part are attached the weight and modified to energy of color co-occurrence histogram, and the number of bins with petty worth have little influence is curtailed. It's verified by analysis that the diagonal part carries size information of homogeneous color region and the non-diagonal part does information about the coherence of it, Moreover the non-diagonal part is more influential than diagonal part in survey of similarity between images. So, the non-diagonal part is attached more weight than the diagonal part as a result of the research. The experiments validate that the proposed descriptor shows better image retrieval performance when the weight for non-diagonal part is set to the value between 0.7 and 0.9.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.287-295
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• 2006

This paper compares two different approaches based on wavelet and Gabor decomposition towards representing the texture of an arbitrary region. The Gabor-domain mean and standard deviation combination is considered to be best in representing the texture of rectangular regions. However, texture representation of arbitrary regions would enable generalized object-based image retrieval and other applications in the future. In this study, we have found that the wavelet features perform better than the Gabor features in representing the texture of arbitrary regions. Particularly, the wavelet-domain standard deviation and entropy combination results in the best retrieval accuracy. Based on our experiment with texture image sets, we present and compare tile retrieval accuracy of multiple wavelet and Gabor feature combinations.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.20-27
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• 2003

In this paper, we implemented a content-based image retrieval system that user can choose a wanted query region of object and retrieve similar object from image database. Query image is induced to wavelet transformation after divided into hue components and gray components that hue features is extracted through color autocorrelogram and dispersion in hue components. Texture feature is extracted through autocorrelogram and GLCM in gray components also. Using features of two components, retrieval is processed to compare each similarity with database image. In here, weight value is applied to each similarity value. We make up for each defect by deriving features from two components beside one that elevations of recall and precision are verified in experiment results. Moreover, retrieval efficiency is improved by weight value. And various features of database images are indexed automatically in feature library that make possible to rapid image retrieval.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.355-358
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 이미지에서 사용자가 관심을 갖는 영역(ROI)의 내용을 나타내는 특성값과 영역의 위치를 함께 고려하여 이미지를 검색하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 검색 대상 이미지를 일정 크기의 블록으로 구분한 후 사용자가 선택한 다중 ROI와 가장 근접하는 특성을 가진 블록을 선택한다. 블록의 특성값은 MPEG-7의 도미넌트 컬러 기술자를 사용한다. 사용자가 선택한 블록의 특성값과 함께 블록의 위치를 측정한 후, 검색 대상 이미지의 블록들의 특성값 및 위치와 비교하여 유사도를 측정한다. 본 논문에서는 실험결과 제안한 방법이 전역 이미지 검색이나 동일한 위치의 블록만 비교하는 경우보다 다중 ROI의 내용과 위치를 함께 고려하는 방법이 다른 방법에 비해 우수한 성능을 나타냈다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.13D no.7 s.110
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• pp.857-866
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• 2006

Performance of an image retrieval system is usually very low because of the semantic gap between the low level feature and the high level concept in a query image. Semantically relevant images may exhibit very different visual characteristics, and may be scattered in several clusters. In this paper, we propose a content based image rertrieval approach which combines region based image retrieval and a new relevance feedback method using adaptive clustering together. Our main goal is finding semantically related clusters to narrow down the semantic gap. Our method consists of region based clustering processes and cluster-merging process. All segmented regions of relevant images are organized into semantically related hierarchical clusters, and clusters are merged by finding the number of the latent clusters. This method, in the cluster-merging process, applies r: using v principal components instead of classical Hotelling's $T_v^2$ [1] to find the unknown number of clusters and resolve the singularity problem in high dimensions and demonstrate that there is little difference between the performance of $T^2$ and that of $T_v^2$. Experiments have demonstrated that the proposed approach is effective in improving the performance of an image retrieval system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.95-102
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a user friendly object-based image retrieval system using the interaction between cortex and hippocampus. Most existing ways of queries in content-based image retrieval rely on query by example or query by sketch. But these methods of queries are not adequate to needs of people's various queries because they are not easy for people to use and restrict. We propose a method of automatic color object extraction using CSB tree map(Color and Spatial based Binary をn map). Extracted objects were transformed to bit stream representing information such as color, size and location by region labelling algorithm and they are learned by the hippocampal neural network using the interplay between cortex and hippocampus. The cells of exciting at peculiar features in brain generate the special sign when people recognize some patterns. The existing neural networks treat each attribute of features evenly. Proposed hippocampal neural network makes an adaptive fast content-based image retrieval system using excitatory learning method that forwards important features to long-term memories and inhibitory teaming method that forwards unimportant features to short-term memories controlled by impression.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.894-907
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• 2022

The features extracted by convolutional neural networks are more descriptive of images than traditional features, and their convolutional layers are more suitable for retrieving images than are fully connected layers. The convolutional layer features will consume considerable time and memory if used directly to match an image. Therefore, this paper proposes a feature weighting and region integration method for convolutional layer features to form global feature vectors and subsequently use them for image matching. First, the 3D feature of the last convolutional layer is extracted, and the convolutional feature is subsequently weighted again to highlight the edge information and position information of the image. Next, we integrate several regional eigenvectors that are processed by sliding windows into a global eigenvector. Finally, the initial ranking of the retrieval is obtained by measuring the similarity of the query image and the test image using the cosine distance, and the final mean Average Precision (mAP) is obtained by using the extended query method for rearrangement. We conduct experiments using the Oxford5k and Paris6k datasets and their extended datasets, Paris106k and Oxford105k. These experimental results indicate that the global feature extracted by the new method can better describe an image.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.44-50
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• 2006

This study has proposed a method of content-based image retrieval using object region in order to overcome disadvantages of existing color histogram methods. The existing color histogram methods have a weak point of reducing accuracy, because these have both a quantization error and an absence of spatial information. In order to overcome this problem, we convert a color information to a HSV space, quantize hue factor being pure color information, and calculate histogram. And then we use hue for retrieval feature that is robust in brightness, movement, and rotation. To solve the problem of the absence of spatial information, we select object region in terms of color feature and region correlation. And we use both the edge and the DC in the selected region for retrieving. As a result of experiment with 1,000 natural color images, the proposed method shows better precision and recall than the existing methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.48-55
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• 2008

In this paper we propose a novel method for image retrieval system using image segmentation and salient points. The proposed method consists of four steps. In the first step, images are segmented into several regions by JSEG algorithm. In the second step, for the segmented regions, dominant colors and the corresponding color histogram are constructed. By using dominant colors and color histogram, we identify candidate regions where objects may exist. In the third step, real object regions are detected from candidate regions by SIFT matching. In the final step, we measure the similarity between the query image and DB image by using the color correlogram technique. Color correlogram is computed in the query image and object region of DB image. By experimental results, it has been shown that the proposed method detects multi-object very well and it provides better retrieval performance compared with object-based retrieval systems.