• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.2
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• pp.215-222
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 새로운 형태 특징값으로서 형태 correlogram을 제안하고 이를 기반으로 한 효과적인 내용기반 영삼검색(content-based image retrieval) 방법을 제시한다. 기존읜 색상 correlogram은 색상 정보에 공간적인 정보를 부여함으로써 영상검색 성능을 향상시켰다. 그러나 이 특징값은 형태 정보를 포함하고 있지 않아서 색상이 다르면서 비슷한 윤곽선 형태를 갖는 물체의 검색에는 좋은 효과를 보이지 못한다.이 문제를 해결하기 위해 예지(edge)들의 correlogram인 형태(shape) correlogram을 제안한다. 색상 correlogram이 색상들의 거리에 따른 상관관계를 나타내는데 반해 형태 correlogram은 에지 각도들의 상관관게를 나타낸다. 형태 correlogram은 gradient 축과 각도 축을 가지는 2차원 특징 벡터(feature vector)로 표현된다. 각 축은 24개 빈(bin)으로 나뉘어져서 총 576개의 원소를 가지게 된다. 또한 본 논문에서는 형태 correlogram의 데이터 크기를 줄이고, 회전에 대해 불변인 특성을 가지게 하기 위해 투영(projected) 형태 correlogram을 제안한다. 실험결과를 통하여 본 논문에서 제안한 형태 correlogram과 투영 형태 correlogram을 사용한 영상검색 방법이 기존의 방법보다 성능면에서 우수함을 입증한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.5 s.305
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• pp.1-10
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• 2005

Content-based image retrieval systems are being actively investigated owing to their ability to retrieve images based on the actual visual content rather than by manually associated textual descriptions. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for image retrieval based on edge structural features using edge correlogram and color coherence vector. After color vector angle is applied in the pre-processing stage, an image is divided into two image parts (high frequency image and low frequency image). In low frequency image, the global color distribution of smooth pixels is extracted by color coherence vector, thereby incorporating spatial information into the proposed color descriptor. Meanwhile, in high frequency image, the distribution of the gray pairs at an edge is extracted by edge correlogram. Since the proposed algorithm includes the spatial and edge information between colors, it can robustly reduce the effect of the significant change in appearance and shape in image analysis. The proposed method provides a simple and flexible description for the image with complex scene in terms of structural features of the image contents. Experimental evidence suggests that our algorithm outperforms the recently histogram refinement methods for image indexing and retrieval. To index the multidimensional feature vectors, we use R*-tree structure.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.125-134
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• 2004

This paper proposes a method for recognition of traffic signs using wavelet transform and shape information from the segmented traffic sign regions. It first segments traffic sign candidate regions by connected component algorithm from binary images, obtained by utilizing the RGB color ratio of each pixel in the image, and then extracts actual traffic sign regions based on their symmetries on X- and Y-axes. In the recognition stage, it utilizes shape information including moment edge correlogram and the number of crossings which concentric circular patterns from region center intersects with frequency information extracted by wavelet transform It finally performs recognition by measuring similarity with the templates in the database. The experimental results show the validity of the proposed method from geometric transformations and environmental factors.