• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2006

As more and more digital images are made by various applications, image retrieval becomes a primary concern in technology of multimedia. This paper presents color based descriptor that uses information of color distribution in color images which is the most basic element for image search and performance of proposed visual feature is evaluated through the simulation. In designing the image search descriptor used color histogram, HSV, Daubechies 9/7 and 2 level wavelet decomposition provide better results than other parameters in terms of computational time and performances. Also histogram quadratic matrix outperforms the sum of absolute difference in similarity measurements, but spends more than 60 computational times.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.65-70
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• 2013

최근 디지털 카메라 기술의 발전으로 이미지를 쉽게 생성할 수 있어 이를 활용한 컴퓨터 비전분야의 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 특히 디지털 이미지에서 특징점을 추출하고 이를 활용하는 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 이미지 스티칭은 여러 이미지에서 특징점을 추출하고 이를 정합하여 하나의 고해상도 이미지를 생성하는 것으로 군사용, 의료용뿐만 아니라 실생활의 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 특징점 기술자의 차원을 효과적으로 감소시켜 정확하면서도 빠르게 정합점을 찾을 수 있는 SURF 기반의 빠른 특징점 기술자 추출 및 정합을 이용한 효율적인 이미지 스티칭 기법을 제안한다. 추출된 특징점에서 불필요한 특징점을 분류하여 특징점 기술자를 생성한다. 이때 특징점 기술자의 연산량을 줄이면서도 효율적인 정합을 위해 기술자의 차원을 줄이고 방향 윈도우를 확장하였다. 실험 결과 특징점 정합 및 전체 이미지 스티칭 속도가 기존의 알고리즘보다 빠르면서도 자연스러운 스티칭된 이미지를 생성할 수 있었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2002

MPEG-7 Visual Standard specifies a set of descriptors that can be used to measure similarity in images or video. Among them, the Edge Histogram Descriptor describes edge distribution with a histogram based on local edge distribution in an image. Since the Edge Histogram Descriptor recommended for the MPEG-7 standard represents only local edge distribution in the image, the matching performance for image retrieval may not be satisfactory. This paper proposes the use of global and semi-local edge histograms generated directly from the local histogram bins to increase the matching performance. Then, the global, semi-global, and local histograms of images are combined to measure the image similarity and are compared with the MPEG-7 descriptor of the local-only histogram. Since we exploit the absolute location of the edge in the image as well as its global composition, the proposed matching method can retrieve semantically similar images. Experiments on MPEG-7 test images show that the proposed method yields better retrieval performance by an amount of 0.04 in ANMRR, which shows a significant difference in visual inspection.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.1690-1704
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• 2013

An affine invariant descriptor is proposed, which is able to well represent the affine covariant regions. Estimating main orientation is still problematic in many existing method, such as SIFT (scale invariant feature transform) and SURF (speeded up robust features). Instead of aligning the estimated main orientation, in this paper ellipse orientation is directly used. According to ellipse orientation, affine covariant regions are firstly divided into 4 sub-regions with equal angles. Since affine covariant regions are divided from the ellipse orientation, the divided sub-regions are rotation invariant regardless the rotation, if any, of ellipse. Meanwhile, the affine covariant regions are normalized into a circular region. In the end, the gradients of pixels in the circular region are calculated and the partition-based descriptor is created by using the gradients. Compared with the existing descriptors including MROGH, SIFT, GLOH, PCA-SIFT and spin images, the proposed descriptor demonstrates superior performance according to extensive experiments.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.69-72
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• 2009

In this paper, we present a new shape descriptor, which is named Poisson equation-Fourier-Mellin moment Descriptor. We solve the Poisson equation in the shape area, and use the solution to get feature function, which are then integrated using Fourier-Mellin moment to represent the shape. This method develops the Poisson equation-geometric moment Descriptor proposed by Lena Gorelick, and keeps both advantages of Poisson equation-geometric moment and Fourier-Mellin moment. It is proved better than Poisson equation-geometric moment Descriptor in shape recognition and classification experiments.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2006년도 추계학술발표대회
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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.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.325-333
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• 2010

Image registration involves overlapping images of an identical region and assigning the data into one coordinate system. Image registration has proved important in remote sensing, enabling registered satellite imagery to be used in various applications such as image fusion, change detection and the generation of digital maps. The image descriptor, which extracts matching points from each image, is necessary for automatic registration of remotely sensed data. Using contrast enhancement algorithms such as histogram equalization and image stretching, the normalized data are applied to the image descriptor. Drawing on the different spectral characteristics of high resolution satellite imagery based on sensor type and acquisition date, the applied normalization method can be used to change the results of matching interest point descriptors. In this paper, the matching points by scale invariant feature transformation (SIFT) are extracted using various contrast enhancement algorithms and injection of Gaussian noise. The results of the extracted matching points are compared with the number of correct matching points and matching rates for each point.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.703-705
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• 2007

An image fidelity assessment using the edge histogram descriptor (EHD) of MPEG-7 is presented. Neither additional data nor fragile watermarking is needed, and there is no need to access the original image as a reference. Only the EHDs of the original image and the received image are required. The peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) obtained by comparing the EHD extracted from the received image and that of the original image is used to assess the noise level of the received image. Experimental results show that the PSNRs calculated from the conventional pixel-to-pixel gray level and from the proposed bin-to-bin EHD maintain a proportional relationship. This implies that the EHD can be used instead of image data for the image fidelity assessments.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(3)
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• pp.129-132
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• 2000

In this paper, a multimedia database retrieval system is proposed using MPEG-7 meta data. Multimedia content based retrieval system is implemented with the MPEG-7 meta data extraction and matching technique. MPEG-7 descriptors and descriptor schemes are stored into the database with other meta data. When a query image is given, the descriptors and descriptor schemes of the query image are extracted and compared with the descriptors and descriptor schemes in the database. Finally, images having more similarity are retrieved.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 영상의 에지와 칼라 분포를 부영상(sub-image)의 단위로 기술하기 위해 MPEG-7의 여러 가지 서술자 중 에지히스토그램 서술자(EHD: Edge Histogram Descriptor)와 컬러레이아웃 서술자(CLD: Color Layout Descriptor)를 조합한 영역기반 영상 검색 시스템을 제안한다. 영상 내의 관심영역 (ROI) 선택의 기본 단위는 영상 공간을 $16(4{\times}4)$개의 겹치지 않는 영역으로 분할한 EHD의 부영상 블록이다. 따라서 영상 특징 벡터에 대한 블록-대-블록의 일-대-일 대응 관계를 유지하기 위해 CLD의 기술자는 $8{\times}8$ 역 DCT (IDCT)를 통해 $4{\times}4$의 각 부영상에 대응하는 컬러 특징을 생성한다 제안된 방법이 MPEG-7의 기술자에 대해 관심영역기반 영상 검색에 적용될 수 있음을 실험을 통해 제시하였다.