• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.1 s.307
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• pp.27-34
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a combined region-based image retrieval system using EHD(Edge Histogram Descriptor) and CLD(Color Layout Descriptor) of MPEG-7 descriptors. The combined descriptor can efficiently describe edge and color features in terms of sub-image regions. That is, the basic unit for the selection of the region-of-interest (ROI) in the image is the sub-image block of the EHD, which corresponds to 16 (i.e., $4{\times}4)$ non-overlapping image blocks in the image space. This implies that, to have a one-to-one region correspondence between ELE and CLD, we need to take an $8{\times}8$ inverse DCT (IDCT) for the CLD. Experimental results show that the proposed retrieval scheme can be used for image retrieval with the ROI based image retrieval for MPEG-7 indexed images.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06c
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• pp.137-140
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• 2001

This paper has been studied for alphabet recognition by using MPEG-7 descriptors. As an application of MPEG-7, the algorithms in this paper have employed Homogeneous Texture descriptor and Edge Histogram descriptor. For confident matching a voting system is used with a tree structure,

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.124-131
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• 2013

Extraction and representation of postures and/or gestures from human activities in videos have been a focus of research in this area of action recognition. With various applications cropping up from different fields, this paper seeks to improve the performance of these action recognition machines by proposing a shape-based silhouette-edge descriptor for the human body. Information entropy, a method to measure the randomness of a sequence of symbols, is used to aid the selection of vital key postures from video frames. Morphological operations are applied to extract and stack edges to uniquely represent different actions shape-wise. To classify an action from a new input video, a Hausdorff distance measure is applied between the gallery representations and the query images formed from the proposed procedure. The method is tested on known public databases for its validation. An effective method of human action annotation and description has been effectively achieved.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.784-794
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• 2010

Automatic facial expression recognition has many potential applications in different areas of human computer interaction. However, they are not yet fully realized due to the lack of an effective facial feature descriptor. In this paper, we present a new appearance-based feature descriptor, the local directional pattern (LDP), to represent facial geometry and analyze its performance in expression recognition. An LDP feature is obtained by computing the edge response values in 8 directions at each pixel and encoding them into an 8 bit binary number using the relative strength of these edge responses. The LDP descriptor, a distribution of LDP codes within an image or image patch, is used to describe each expression image. The effectiveness of dimensionality reduction techniques, such as principal component analysis and AdaBoost, is also analyzed in terms of computational cost saving and classification accuracy. Two well-known machine learning methods, template matching and support vector machine, are used for classification using the Cohn-Kanade and Japanese female facial expression databases. Better classification accuracy shows the superiority of LDP descriptor against other appearance-based feature descriptors.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.33-38
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• 2013

Image retrieval is one of the most exciting and fastest growing research fields in the area of multimedia technology. As the amount of digital contents continues to grow users are experiencing increasing difficulty in finding specific images in their image libraries. This paper proposes an efficient image descriptor which uses a local color and texture in the non-overlapped block images. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we assessed the retrieval efficiency in terms of ANMRR with common image dataset. The experimental trials revealed that the proposed algorithm exhibited a significant improvement in ANMRR, compared to Dominant Color Descriptor and Edge Histogram Descriptor.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.227-230
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• 2006

A content-based image retrieval system using MPEG-7 is designed and implemented in this thesis. The implemented system uses existing MPEG-7 Visual Descriptors. In addition, a new descriptor for efficient retrieval of bio images is proposed and utilized in the developed content-based image retrieval system. Comparing proposed CBSD(Compact Binary Shape Descriptor) with Edge Histogram Descriptor(EHD) and Region Shape Descriptor(RSD), it shows good retrieval performance in NMRR. The proposed descriptor is robust to large modification of brightness and contrast and especially improved retrieval performance to search images with similar shapes. Also proposed system adopts distributed architecture to solve increased server overload and network delay. Updating module of client efficiently reduces downloading time for metadata. The developed system can efficiently retrieve images without causing server's overload.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.81-91
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• 2005

In this paper we present a novel approach for image retrieval using color and edge information. We take into account the HSI(Hue, Saturation and Intensity) color space instead of RGB space, which emphasizes more on visual perception. In our system colors in an image are clustered into a small number of representative colors. The color feature descriptor consists of the representative colors and their percentages in the image. An improved cumulative color histogram distance measure is defined for this descriptor. And also, we have developed an efficient edge detection technique as an optional feature to our retrieval system in order to surmount the weakness of color feature. During the query processing, both the features (color, edge information) could be integrated for image retrieval as well as a standalone entity, by specifying it in a certain proportion. The content-based retrieval system is tested to be effective in terms of retrieval and scalability through experimental results and precision-recall analysis.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.37-45
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• 2008

Quality assessment ai s to evaluate if a distorted image or video has a good quality by measuring the difference between the original and distorted images or videos. In this paper, to assess the visual qualify of a distorted image or video, visual features of the distorted image are compared with those of the original image instead of the direct comparison of the distorted image with the original image. We use edge projections from two images as features, where the edge projection can be easily obtained by projecting edge pixels in an edge map along vertical/horizontal direction. In this paper, edge projections are obtained by using vertical/horizontal directions of gradients as well as the magnitude of each gradient. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed quality assessment through the comparison with conventional quality assessment algorithms such as structural similarity(SSIM), edge peak signal-to-noise ratio(EPSNR), and edge histogram descriptor(EHD) methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.367-370
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• 2003

최근 급속하게 증가하는 멀티미디어 정보를 효율적으로 다루기 위하여 멀티미디어 데이터에 대한 표현을 표준화하는 MPEG-7 표준안이 제정되었다 본 논문에서는 표준안의 Visual Descriptor 중 Edge Histogram Descriptor(EHD)에 기반한 효과적인 내용기반 이미지 검색 시스템을 설계한다. EHD의 경우 질의 이미지와 데이터베이스의 이미지 간의 유사도 연산을 통해 검색을 하는데 모든 이미지에 대해 연산을 수행하는 것은 비효율적이다. 저장된 에지 히스토그램 정보를 ‘이미지 당 빈 값’에서 ‘빈 값 당 이미지’ 정보로 매핑하는 Lookup Table를 이용하여 유사도 연산을 수행할 이미지 범위를 한정함으로써 검색 효율을 높일 수 있는 검색 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.685-687
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• 2004

MPEG-7은 형태나 질감, 컬러 등의 속성 및 분포 등을 나타내기 위한 여러 가지 기술자(descriptor)들을 제공함으로써 검색의 효율을 높일 수 있는 방법을 포함한 표준화를 제시하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 영상의 특징을 MPEG-7의 설러 기술자중 에지 히스토그램 기술자(Edge Histogram Descriptor)를 통해 얻는다 추출된 에지 특징을 이용하여 영상의 정해진 각 역의 전체 후보영상과의 상대적 유사도를 비교하여 검색에 반영함으로써 검색의 효율을 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다.