• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.11-24
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• 2008

Region-based image retrieval techniques, which divide image into similar regions having similar characteristics and examine similarities among divided regions, were proposed to support an efficient low-dimensional color indexing scheme. However, color image segmentation techniques are required additionally. The problem of segmentation is difficult because of a large variety of color and texture. It is known to be difficult to identify image regions containing the same color-texture pattern in natural scenes. In this paper we propose an automatic color image segmentation algorithm. The colors in each image are first quantized to reduce the number of colors. The gray level of image representing the outline edge of image is constructed in terms of Fisher's multi-class linear discriminant on quantized images. The gray level of image is transformed into a binary edge image. The edge showing the outline of the binary edge image links to the nearest edge if disconnected. Finally, the final segmentation image is obtained by merging similar regions. In this paper we design and implement a region-based image retrieval system using the proposed segmentation. A variety of experiments show that the proposed segmentation scheme provides good segmentation results on a variety of images.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.3341-3355
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• 2000

최근 멀티미디어 문서의 개수가 기하 급수적으로 증가함에 따라, 사용자가 요구하는 멀티미디어 문서를 보다 효과적으로 저장 및 검색할 수 있는 멀티미디어 문서 검색 시스템을 개발하는 것이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 XML로 정의된 문서를 문서 구조 및 이미지 내용을 기반으로 보다 효율적으로 검색할 수 있는 시스템을 설계 및 구현한다. 효율적인 구조-기반 검색을 지원하기 위해서 구조 인덱스를 o2store 저장 시스템을 사용하여 구현한다. 아울러 내용-기반 검색을 지원하기 위해서 X-트리에 기반한 효율적인 고차원 색인구조를 구현한다. 마지막으로 구현된 멀티미디어 문서검색 시스템을 검색시간, 저장시간, 부가 저장 공간의 관점에서 성능평가를 수행한다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.12
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• pp.3025-3035
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• 1998

In this paper, we describe the design and implementationof COIRS COncept,based Image Retricval System). It differs from extant content-based image retrieval systems in that it enables users to query based on concepts- it allows users to get images concepmally relevant. A concept is basically an aggregation of promitive objects in an image. For such a cencept based image retrieval functionality. COIRS aglopts an image descriptor called triple and includes a triple thesaurus used for capturing concepts. There are four facilities in COIRS: a visual image indeses a triple thesaurus, an inverted fiel, and a user query interface. The visnal image indeser facilitates object laeling and the percification of positionof objects. It is an assistant tool designed to minimize manual work when indexing images. The thesarrus captires the concepts by analyzing triples, thereby extracting image semantics. The triples are then for formalating queries as well as indexing images. The user query interiare enables users to formulate...

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.412-416
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• 2002

멀티미디어 검색 시스템들은 아직까지 내용 기반에 의한 검색기술이 실용적으로 쓰일 만큼 높은 성능을 보이고 있지 않기 때문에 텍스트에 의한 검색만을 지원하고 있는 실정이다. HTML 문서에 나타나는 텍스트 중 이미지 아래에 붙은 표제나 이미지 링크에 붙어 있는 텍스트를 골라내어 이미지의 색인 정보로 이용하여 텍스트를 추출하는 기법을 제안하였다. 텍스트를 추출하기 위해 N-Gram 색인 방법을 사용하였으며 한편 검색 효율을 높이기 위해서 질의 의도가 큰 단어에 가중치를 부여하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10b
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• pp.250-252
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• 1998

내용기반 이미지 검색(Content-based image retrieval)에서 컬러 특징을 표현하기 위해 컬러 히스토그램이 많이 이용되고 있다. 하지만 히스토그램의 고차원적인 성질 때문에 색인구조를 사용한 효율적인 검색이 어렵고, 유사도 계산 단계에서 비용이 많이 든다. 이점을 개선하기 위해서 이미지의 컬러 정보 손실을 최소화하면서 히스토그램의 차원을 낮추는 컬러 클러스터링 방법이 제안되었다. 이 논문은 이미지 검색의 응용 분야에 따른 이미지 데이터의 컬러 분포 특성을 이용한 컬러 클러스터링 방법을 제안한다. 컬러 분포를 가중치로 이용한 계층적 컬러 클러스터링 방법에 대해 알아보고, 두 단계 컬러 히스토그램을 이용한 이미지 검색에 적용하여 컬러 정보 유지 능력을 실험해 본다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.7 no.2 s.13
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• pp.210-217
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• 2003

A novel characteristic value extraction method based on mathematical morphology is proposed. Morphological spatial frequency defined by morphological pattern distribution function is introduced and applied to define a new feature called ‘average height.' The average height is used to define a characteristic value which is to be used to generate an index key value for content-based image retrieval. Superiority of the method was proved for various images by experiment. Furthermore the fact that the proposed method does not need threshold to obtain binary image provides its applicability to content-based image retrieval.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.321-342
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to compare and evaluate retrieval effectiveness of three types of image perception using different retrieval methods. Image types included specific, general, and abstract topics. The retrieval method included text only search, query by example (QBE) search, and a hybrid/hybrid search. Thirty-two college students were recruited for searching topics using Google image search system. The search results were compared with One-Way and Two-Way ANOVA. As a result, text search and hybrid search showed advantage when searching for specific and general topics. On the other hand, the QBE search performed better than both the text-only and hybrid search for abstract topics. The results have implications for the implementation of image retrieval systems.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.132-144
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• 2004

With the rapid development of internet technology, the number of internet users and the amount of multimedia information on the internet is ever increasing. Recently, the web sites, such as e-business sites and shopping mall sites, deal with lots of image information. As a result, it is required to support content- based image retrieval efficiently on such image data. This paper proposes an intelligent image retrieval system, which adopts XML, technology. To support object-based col)tent retrieval on product catalog images containing multiple objects, we describe a multi -level metadata structure which represents the local features, global features, and semantics of image data. To enable semantic-based and content-based retrieval on such image data, we design a XML-Schema for the proposed metadata and show how to represent such metadata using XML- documents. We also describe how to automatically transform the retrieval results into the forms suitable for the various user environments, such as web browser or mobile browser, using XSLT The proposed scheme can be easily implemented on any commercial platforms supporting XML technology. It can be utilized to enable efficient image metadata sharing between systems, and it will contribute in improving the retrieval correctness and the user's satisfaction on content-based e-catalog image retrieval.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.1359-1362
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• 2003

최근 인터넷과 웹 기술의 발전 그리고 이를 기반으로 하는 다양한 멀티미디어 컨텐츠가 홍수를 이루고 있지만 멀티미디어 데이터에서 체계적으로 연관 규칙을 마이닝 하는 연구는 초기 단계이다. 본 논문에서는 이미지 프로세싱 분야 및 내용 기반 이미지 검색에 대한 기존 연구를 바탕으로 이미지 데이터 저장소에 저장된 재생성 항목과 희소하게 발생하지만 상대적으로 특정 항목과 높은 비율로 동시에 나타나는 희소 항목을 포함한 내용기반의 이미지 연관 규칙을 찾아내기 위한 탐사 기법을 제안한다 실험 결과 제안된 알고리즘은 기존의 재생성 항목만을 고려한 알고리즘보다 희소 항목을 포함하여 연관 규칙을 탐사하므로 같은 종류의 이미지가 모여 있는 저장소에서 이미지 오브젝트간의 연관 관계를 발견하는 이미지 데이터 마이닝에 효과적이다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.2 no.11
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• pp.1421-1426
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• 2001

Nowadays, as the quantity of multimedia information increases rapidly, an efficient management for multimedia has become more important. In this paper, to index and search multimedia contents efficiently, we designed the algorithm searching specific image and saving the extracted image using the semantic information extraction scheme based on contents and it is one of the schemes to indexing and searching of video data. After extracting the RGB information from input image, while all frames of video is inspected sequentially, the specific image is saved through referring to the position and distribution of contents from the collection scheme of RGB range. In case of using the proposed image extraction algorithm, because only saved video is searched instead of the whole the searching time can be reduced.