• Journal of Information Management
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.71-94
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• 2011

Query by visual example is the principal query paradigm for expressing queries in a content-based image retrieval environment. Query by image and query by sketch have long been purported as being viable methods of query formulation yet there is little empirical evidence to support their efficacy in facilitating query formulation. The ability of the searcher to express their information problem to an information retrieval system is fundamental to the retrieval process. The aim of this research was to investigate the query by image and query by sketch methods in supporting a range of information problems through a usability experiment in order to contribute to the gap in knowledge regarding the relationship between searchers' information problems and the query methods required to support efficient and effective visual query formulation. The results of the experiment suggest that query by image is a viable approach to visual query formulation. In contrast, the results strongly suggest that there is a significant mismatch between the searchers information problems and the expressive power of the query by sketch paradigm in supporting visual query formulation. The results of a usability experiment focusing on efficiency (time), effectiveness (errors) and user satisfaction show that there was a significant difference, p<0.001, between the two query methods on all three measures: time (Z=-3.597, p<0.001), errors (Z=-3.317, p<0.001), and satisfaction (Z=-10.223, p<0.001). The results also show that there was a significant difference in participants perceived usefulness of the query tools Z=-4.672, p<0.001.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.110-112
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• 2000

이미지와는 달리, 비디오 데이터는 객체에 대한 움직임 정보(motion trajectory)를 가지고 있으며, 이러한 움직임 정보는 비디오 데이터만이 가지는 매우 중요한 특징으로 비디오 데이터에 대한 색인과 내용 기반 검색을 수행하는 데 있어 중요한 역할을 한다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 비디오 데이터베이스에서 효율적인 내용기반 검색을 위해 하나의 객체에 대한 움직임 정보를 나타내는 single motion trajectory와 두 객체에 대한 움직임 정보를 나타내는 multiple motion trajectory를 위한 새로운 시공간 표현 기법을 제안한다. 아울러, 움직임 정보에 대한 사용자 질의에 대해 유사성을 측정하여 순위부여와 Time Interval을 지원하는 새로운 유사성 측정 알고리즘인 SIST와 SIMT를 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.348-349
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• 2017

본 논문에서 제안하는 내용은 기존의 포털 검색의 키워드 입력 방식과는 달리, 검색하고자 하는 대상을 스마트폰과 같은 모바일 기기의 카메라로 촬영하면, 해당 촬영 이미지가 사용자 입장에서는 검색 키워드와 같이 동일한 역할을 할 수 있도록 이미지에 해당되는 검색 키워드를 추출 및 매칭하여 검색을 위한 질의어로 사용할 수 있도록 해주는 것을 목적으로 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

Due to the development of ubiquitous computing, a wide variety of information is being produced and distributed rapidly in digital form. In this excess of information, it is not easy for users to search and find their desired information in short time. In this paper, we propose the personalized item recommendation using the image based filtering. This research uses the image based filtering which is extracting the feature from the image data that a user is interested in, in order to improve the superficial problem of content analysis. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method and it is compared with the performance of previous studies of the content based filtering and the collaborative filtering in the MovieLens dataset. And the results have shown that the proposed method significantly outperforms the previous methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.157-167
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• 2003

Spatial relations among objects we one of the most frequently used searching criteria for a query based on the contents of 3-D images. However, the existing researches have mainly focused only the absolute directional relations based on a fixed viewpoint in 2-D images. So, this paper presents a representation method of viewpoint based directional relations that enables spatial relations among objects to be retrieved based on a viewpoint of an observer. The retrieval technique based on our method is a]so described. In this paper, the notion of 3D string is defined to express the spatial relations in a 3-D space. A retrieval method based on relative directional relations among objects from a viewpoint of an observer is also presented. The proposed method simplifies the retrieval of viewpoint-based directional relations because 2D+1D scheme reduces the dimension.

• 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.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.43-52
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• 1999

현재 사용하는 순차적인 뉴스 비디오 검색 방법은 많은 시간을 소비한다는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 따라서 , 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 뉴스 비디오를 내용(뉴스 사건)단위별로 검색할수 있는 자동 인덱스 모듈과 원격 검색 브라우저 모듈을 제시한다. 인덱싱 모듈은 기본적으로 이미지 프로세싱을 기반으로 하여 뉴스 앵커를 검출하고 뉴스 아이템을 분할한다. 인덱싱 구성요소는 뉴스 비디오 내용에 대한 대표영상(뉴스아이콘)과 부가적인 정보를 포함하는 뉴스 자막으로 구성하였다. 검색 브라우저 모듈은 추출된 인덱싱 요소를 아이콘하여 뉴스사건 단위로 내용을 검색할수 있도록 설계하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 매일 발생되는 뉴스를 자동 인덱싱하여 사용자에게 뉴스서비스의 효율적인 적용이 기대된다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.3762-3774
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• 2000

The advances of computer hardware and information processing technologies raise the needs of multimedia information retrieval systems. Up to date. multimedia information systems have been developed for text information and image information. Nowadays. the multimedia information systems for video and audio information. especially for musical information have been grown up more and more. In recent music information retrieval systems. not only the information retrieval based on meta-information such like composer and title but also the content-based information retrieval is supported. The content-based information retrieval in music information retrieval systems utilize the similarity value between the user query and the music information stored in music database. In tbis paper. hence. we developed a similarity computation algorithm in which the pitches and lengths of each corresponding pair of notes are used as the fundamental factors for similarity computation between musical information. We also make an experiment of the proposed algorithm to validate its appropriateness. From the experimental results. the proposed similarity computation algorithm is shown to be able to correctly check whether two music files are analogous to each other or not based on melodies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.449-451
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 내용기반 이미지 검색 시스템을 제작하기 위하여 필수적으로 선행되어야 하는 이미지의 영역구분에 대한 새로운 방법인 경계값을 이용한 영역추출 방법을 소개한다. 빠르고 정확한 이미지 검색엔진을 구현하기 위하여 질의의 결과가 될 이미지들은 전처리기에 의하여 모든 영역을 추출한 뒤 각각의 영역에 따른 특성(feature)를 저장하고 있어야 한다. 정확한 질의 결과를 얻기 위하여는 정확히 영역을 추출할 수 있고 그 특성도 추출할 수 있는 전처리기를 사용하여야 한다. 또한 정확도만을 중시하여 너무 복잡한 알고리즘을 사용한다면 그 또한 실용적이지 못하게 된다. 경계값을 이용한 영역추출 방법은 이미지의 각 점에 대한 경계값(edge value)을 이용하여 그 경계값이 작은 점으로부터 시작하여 경계값이 큰 점들을 병합해 가면서 인접한 영역간의 크기, 색상 등을 고려하여 각각의 영역을 구분해 낸다. 이 방법의 가장 큰 특징은 텍스쳐(texture)를 제외한 일반적인 영역뿐 아니라 텍스쳐 포함하는 영역도 추출할 수 있는 점과 빠른 처리 속도에 있다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.494-506
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• 2003

Recently, explosive popularity of multimedia information has triggered the need for retrieving multimedia contents efficiently from the database including audio, video and images. In this paper, we propose an XML-based retrieval scheme and a data model that complement the weak aspects of annotation and conent based retrieval methods. The Property and hierarchy structure of image and video data are represented and manipulated based on the Multimedia Description Schema (MDS) that conforms to the MPEG-7 standard. For audio contents, pitch contours extracted from their acoustic features are converted into UDR string. Especially, to improve the retrieval performance, user's access pattern and frequency are utilized in the construction of an index. We have implemented a prototype system and evaluated its performance through various experiments.