• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.114-125
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• 2002

Although there have been a lot of researches on a video abstraction algorithm, the video abstraction tool is necessary to correctly pick up some important shots in a video because the important shots might vary on the person's subjectivity. This paper proposes a video abstraction and search system for making a video abstraction automatically or manually. Proposed system has two main components, server and client. The server generates the Metadata and makes a video abstraction file. The description for video abstraction file is based on MPEG-7. Since proposed system has a function to manually correct the results of each step, the author could produce a good video abstraction easily and efficiently. The proposed system could be used to build a digital video library.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.93-95
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• 2008

미디어와 기술 발달의 따른 매우 원본과 같은 복제 영상인 유사-복제 영상들이 원저자의 동의 없이 사용자간의 교환이 무방비로 유동되고 있다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위하여, 본 논문에서는 새로운 영상 식별자를 제안한다. 제안된 영상 식별자는 특징점 기반이며, 그것의 주변 밝기 정보의 고유값 분해과정을 거쳐서 지역 기술자를 생성한다. 이 생성된 지역 기술자들을 원본 데이터베이스와 빠르게 검색하여 주어진 질의 영상과 관련된 원본을 찾는 시스템이다. 실험에서는 총 13 종류의 영상을 왜곡을 시행하였으며, 거리의 따른 임계값은 false-positive alarm 을 시행하여 결정하였다. 실험결과 매우 높은 정확률을 가지며, 영상으로부터 영상 식별자 추출 및 데이터에이스 검색속도 또한 매우 우수한 성능을 가진다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.203-208
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• 2006

The management of image information settles as an important field with the advent of multimedia age and we are in need of the effective retrieval method to manage systematically image information. This paper has complemented the problem caused by the absence of space information that is a weak point of the existing color histogram method by assigning regions of features, and raised accuracy by adding texture and shape information. And existing methods using multiple features have problems that the retrieval process is embarrassed because each weight is set up manually. So we has solved these problems by assignment of weight applying fuzzy integral. As a result of experimenting with 1,000 color images, the proposed method showed better precision and recall than the existing method.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.753-756
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• 2004

영상의 객체가 갖고 있는 중요도를 계산하는 것은 매우 주관적이기 때문에, 객체의 의미 정도를 판단하는 것은 매우 어려운 문제이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 효율적인 내용기반 이미지 검색 시스템을 구축하기 위하여 원 영상에서 Wavelet 변환을 이용하여 RGB 이미지를 각각 분리 및 병합하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한, 각각의 RGB 이미지들 중 검색에 필요한 특징들을 추출하여 원 영상과 가장 근접한 이미지들을 찾아내는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 세가지 특징 정보를 이용한 내용 기반 이미지 정보 검색은 기존 방법에 비해 높은 검색 성능을 보였으며, 사람 얼굴이나 캐릭터 이미지인 경우에는 더욱 효율적이라 예상된다

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.2 no.8
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• pp.1117-1122
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• 2001

Recently, issues on the internet searching of image information through various multimedia databases have drawn an tremendous attention and several researches on image information retrieval methods are on progress. By incorporating wavelet transform and correlation matrixes, we propose a novel and highly efficient feature vector extraction algorithm that has an capability of a robust similarity matching. The simulation results have yielded a faster and highly accurate candidate image retrieval performance in comparison to those of the conventional algorithms. Such an improved performance can be obtained because the used feature vectors were compressed to 256：1 while the correlation matrixes are incorporated to provide a fuel information for the better matching.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.11
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• pp.2776-2785
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• 1998

An image retrieval system based on image content is a key issue for building and managing large multimedia database, such as art galleries and museums, trademarks and copyrights, and picture archiving and communication system. Therefore, the interest on the subject of content-based image retrieval has been greatly increased for the last few years. This paper proposes a feature-based image retrieval technique which uses a compound feature vector representing both of color and shape of an image. Color information for the feature vector is obtained using the algebraic moment of each pixel of an image based on the property of regional color distribution. Shape information for the feature vector is obtained using the Improved Moment Invariant(IMI) which reduces the quantity of computation and increases retrieval efficiency. In the preprocessing phase for extracting shape feature, we transform a color image into a gray image. Since we make use of the modified DCT algorithm, it is implemented easily and can extract contour in real time. As an experiment, we have compared our method with previous methods using a database consisting of 150 automobile images, and the results of the experiment have shown that our method has the better performance on retrieval effectiveness.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 1999.12a
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• pp.193-198
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 영상의 내용을 나타내는 색상과 체인 코드에 기반한 복잡도와 영역 색정보를 이용한 내용 기반 영상 검색을 결합한 시스템을 구현하였다. 실험 대상으로 선택한 꽃 영상의 경우 대부분의 인식 대상 객체가 중앙에 있을 경우를 고려하여, 영상을 중앙 영역과 전체 영역으로 구분하고, 각각의 영역에서 두 개의 히스토그램을 생성한다. 그리고 전체 영역에 대한 기준치를 구하고 chain code글 이용한 복잡도를 구하였다. 중앙영역과 전체영역의 히스토그램 인터섹션을 이용한 검색을 실험하였고, 영역 색상과 복잡도를 결합한 검색도 또한 실험하였다. 기존의 히스토그램 인터섹션의 경우 Precision/Recall이 0.370/0.60인데 비해 영역 색상 히스토그램을 인터섹션한 경우의 Precision/Recall은 0.69/0.76이고 복잡도를 결합한 경우의 Precision/Recall은 0.92/0.80를 얻음으로써, 제안된 방식의 검색이 비교적 효율적임을 보였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.126-135
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• 2002

An image contains various features such as color, shape, texture and location information. When only one of those features is used to retrieve an image, it is difficult to acquire satisfactory retrieval efficiency. Especially, in the database with huge capacity, such phenomenon happens frequently. Therefore, by using moi·e features, efficiency of the contents-based image retrieval (CBIR) system can be improved. This paper proposes a technique to consider location information about specific color as well as color information in image using centroid situation vector. Centroid situation vectors are calculated for specific color of the query image. Then, location similarity is determined through comparing distances between extracted centroid situation vectors of query image and target image in the database. Simulation results show that the proposed method is robust in zoom-in or zoom-out processed images and improves discrimination ability in fliped or rotated images. In addition, the suggested method reduced computational complexity by overlapping information extraction, and that improved the retrieval speed using an efficient index file.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.434-445
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• 2009

Content-based image retrieval(CBIR) is the retrieval technique which uses the contents of images. However, in contrast to text data, multimedia data are ambiguous and there is a big difference between system's low-level representation and human's high-level concept. So it doesn't always mean that near points in the vector space are similar to user. We call this the semantic-gap problem. Due to this problem, performance of image retrieval is not good. To solve this problem, the relevance feedback(RF) which uses user's feedback information is used. But existing RF doesn't consider user's region-of-interest(ROI), and therefore, irrelevant regions are used in computing new query points. Because the system doesn't know user's ROI, RF is proceeded in the image-level. We propose a new ROI RF method which guides a user to select ROI from relevant images for the retrieval of complex satellite image, and this improves the accuracy of the image retrieval by computing more accurate query points in this paper. Also we propose a pruning technique which improves the accuracy of the image retrieval by using images not selected by the user in this paper. Experiments show the efficiency of the proposed ROI RF and the pruning technique.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.8-15
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• 2007

Recently, it is important to process multimedia data efficiently. Especially, in case of retrieval of multimedia information, technique of user interface and retrieval technique are necessary. This paper proposes a new technique which detects cuts effectively in compressed image information by MPEG. A cut is a turning point of scenes. The cut-detection is the basic work and the first-step for video indexing and retrieval. Existing methods have a weak point that they detect wrong cuts according to change of a screen such as fast motion of an object, movement of a camera and a flash. Because they compare between previous frame and present frame. The proposed technique detects shots at first using DC(Direct Current) coefficient of DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform). The database is composed of these detected shots. Features are extracted by HMMD color model and edge histogram descriptor(EHD) among the MPEG-7 visual descriptors. And detections are performed in sequence by the proposed matching technique. Through this experiments, an improved video segmentation system is implemented that it performs more quickly and precisely than existing techniques have.