• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.99-108
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• 2008

This paper proposes an image retrieval system which integrates metadata, contents, and emotions in textile images. First, the proposed system searches images using metadata. Among searched images, the system retrieves similar images based on color histogram, color sketch, and emotion histogram. To extract emotion features, this paper uses emotion colors which was proposed on 160 emotion words by H. Nagumo. To enhance the user's convenience, the proposed textile image retrieval system provides additional functions as like enlarging an image, viewing color histogram, viewing color sketch, and viewing repeated patterns.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.11
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• pp.1013-1020
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• 2005

This paper presents an effective and robust leaf image retrieval system based on shape feature. Specifically, we propose an improved MPP algorithm for more effective representation of leaf images and show a new dynamic matching algorithm that basically revises the Nearest Neighbor search to reduce the matching time. In particular, both leaf shape and leaf arrangement can be sketched in the query for better accuracy and efficiency. In the experiment, we compare our proposed method with other methods including Centroid Contour Distance(CCD), Fourier Descriptor, Curvature Scale Space Descriptor(CSSD), Moment Invariants, and MPP. Experimental results on one thousand leaf images show that our approach achieves a better performance than other methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.77-80
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• 2000

멀티미디어 데이터의 생산속도가 급증함에 따라 멀티미디어 데이터를 쉽고, 빠르며, 효율적으로 검색할 수 있는 방법이 필요하게 되었다. MPEG-7 표준화에 관련하여 영상의 특성추출, 기술(description), 검색엔진의 구성에 관련된 연구가 진행중에 있다. 본 논문에서는 영상의 여러 낮은 단계 특성을 추출하여, 이를 바탕으로 영상 분류를 통해 영상의 의미 정보를 얻는다. 분류를 통해 검색의 공간을 줄일 수 있었다. 그리고, 자바 애플릿을 이용하여 웹브라우저 상에서 스케치를 통한 검색을 함으로써, 보다 적극적인 검색이 가능하다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.40-54
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• 1999

In this paper, we describe a new trademark retrieval system based upon the content or the shape of trademark. The system has an on-line graphical user interface for the World Wide Web (WWW) that allows user to provide a query in forms of a sketch or a visual image to search for similar trademarks from database. User interfaces for the WWW were implemented by utilizing HTML and Java applets. The query can occur in arbitrary size and orientation. A shape representation scheme invariant to scale and rotation was developed to measure the similarity between two trademarks using the magnitude of Zernike moments as a feature set. Performance evaluation has been carried out with a database of 3,000 trademarks. It takes only about 0.6 second for the retrieval on a 200 MHz Pentium PC. The average recall of the original one among top 30 candidates queried by noisy or deformed images was 100%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.95-102
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a user friendly object-based image retrieval system using the interaction between cortex and hippocampus. Most existing ways of queries in content-based image retrieval rely on query by example or query by sketch. But these methods of queries are not adequate to needs of people's various queries because they are not easy for people to use and restrict. We propose a method of automatic color object extraction using CSB tree map(Color and Spatial based Binary をn map). Extracted objects were transformed to bit stream representing information such as color, size and location by region labelling algorithm and they are learned by the hippocampal neural network using the interplay between cortex and hippocampus. The cells of exciting at peculiar features in brain generate the special sign when people recognize some patterns. The existing neural networks treat each attribute of features evenly. Proposed hippocampal neural network makes an adaptive fast content-based image retrieval system using excitatory learning method that forwards important features to long-term memories and inhibitory teaming method that forwards unimportant features to short-term memories controlled by impression.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.122-124
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• 2000

본 논문은 질병이 있는 뇌종양 MRI 이미지 검색을 위해 아이콘 기반의 스케치 질의 방안을 제시한다. 기존의 이미지 검색 시스템은 이미지가 갖는 속성 중 일부의 속성 값만을 가지고 사용자가 직접 질의 이미지를 작성한다. 그러나 이런 방법으로는 여러 복잡한 속성값을 갖는 뇌종양 MRI 이미지의 내용을 표현하기는 어렵다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 질병이 있는 뇌 MRI 이미지 검색을 위해 아이콘을 사용한 템플릿 형식의 메디컬 스케치 질의 방법을 제시한다. 뇌에서 발생하는 뇌질환을 질병별로 분류하였고, 분류된 질병들이 가지고 있는 색상이나 질감, 모양과 같은 속성 값들을 아이콘화하여 템플릿 이미지로 제공되는 정상인의 이미지에 정의된 질병 아이콘의 크기와 위치를 설정함으로써 사용자가 검색하고자 하는 질의 이미지를 쉽게 작성할 수 있는 스케치 형식의 질의방법을 제안한다.