• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.1831-1834
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• 2003

Due to the increasing of multimedia data quantity, database searching based on image becomes important. For this scheme, MPEG-7 gives a good solution to efficient data searching. MPEG-7 uses Descriptors which are color, texture, and shape to extract features from images. It is obvious that using more than one Descriptor causes more accurate data searching result than using just one. In this paper, selecting a composite of MPEG-7 visual Descriptor using KL-Expansion is proposed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.1083-1087
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• 2005

As development of digital technology, many kinds of multimedia data are used variously and requirements for effective use by user are increasing. In order to transfer information fast and precisely what user wants, effective retrieval method is required. As existing multimedia data are impossible to apply the MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 technologies which are aimed at compression, store and transmission. So MPEG-7 is introduced as a new technology for effective management and retrieval of multimedia data. In this paper, we extract content-based features using color descriptor among the MPEG-7 standardization visual descriptor, and reduce feature data applying PCA(Principal Components Analysis) technique. We model the cerebral cortex and hippocampal neural network in engineering domain, and team content-based feature vectors fast and apply the hippocampal neural network algorithm to compose of optimized feature. And then we present fast and precise retrieval effect when indexing and retrieving.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 MPEG-7 시각 정보 기술자인 Dominant Color와 Contour Shape 기술자에 대한 새로운 인덱싱 알고리즘을 제안한다. Dominant Color 기술자에서 사용되는 비교 연산 식은 가우스 혼합 모델에 기초하고 있기 때문에 기술자의 각 속성들을 하나의 칼라 히스토그램 형태로 변형시켜서 인덱스로 사용한다. Contour Shape 기술자는 두 단계 형태의 알고리즘을 사용하는데, 첫 번째 단계에서는 글로벌 변수인 Eccentricity와 Circularity를 사용한 대략적인 비교를 통해서 비슷하지 않은 이미지 오브젝트를 배제시키고 두 번째 단계에서 남겨진 오브젝트들과 질의 오브젝트들간의 Peak 변수를 사용한 비교 연산을 통해 인덱싱을 수행한다. 또한 본 논문은 효율적인 멀티미디어 데이타 검색을 위해서 두 가지의 MPEG-7 시각 정보 기술자 결합 알고리즘을 제안한다. 첫 번째 결합 알고리즘은 가중치를 확률로 변환해서 반영하는 것이고 두 번째는 가중치를 각 비교 연산 결과값의 중요도로 간주하는 방법이다. 실험을 통해서 결과를 분석해 보면 근사화를 통한 인덱스 생성으로 100%의 정확도를 유지 할 수는 없지만 논문에서 제안된 각 기술자의 인덱싱 알고리즘과 기술자들의 결합 알고리즘은 기본 검색 알고리즘과 비교했을 때 매우 빠른 속도 향상을 보여주었다. 본 논문에서 제안된 알고리즘은 MPEG-7을 사용하는 검색 시스템의 데이타베이스 구축에 효율적으로 사용될 수 있다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2001

MPEG-7 standardization work has started with the aims of providing fundamental tools for describing multimedia contents. MPEG-7 defines the syntax and semantics of descriptors and description schemes so that they may be used as fundamental tools for multimedia content description. In this paper, we introduce a texture based image description and retrieval method, which is adopted as the homogeneous texture descriptor in the visual part of the MPEG-7 final committee draft. The current MPEG-7 homogeneous texture descriptor consists of the mean, the standard deviation value of an image, energy, and energy deviation values of Fourier transform of the image. These are extracted from partitioned frequency channels based on the human visual system (HVS). For reliable extraction of the texture descriptor, Radon transformation is employed. This is suitable for HVS behavior. We also introduce various matching methods; for example, intensity-invariant, rotation-invariant and/or scale-invariant matching. This technique retrieves relevant texture images when the user gives a querying texture image. In order to show the promising performance of the texture descriptor, we take the experimental results with the MPEG-7 test sets. Experimental results show that the MPEG-7 texture descriptor gives an efficient and effective retrieval rate. Furthermore, it gives fast feature extraction time for constructing the texture descriptor.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.131-139
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• 2003

Shape descriptors play an important role in systems for object recognition, retrieval, registration, and analysis. Seven well-known descriptors including MPEG-7 visual descriptors arebriefly reviewed and a new robust pattern recognition descriptor is proposed. Performance comparison among descriptors are presented. Experiments show that the newly proposed descriptor yields better performance results than Fourier, invariant moment, and edge histogram descriptors.

• 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.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.246-248
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• 2007

Query-by-example (QBE) is a well-known method for image retrieval. In reality, however, an example image to be used for the query is rarely available. Therefore, it is often necessary to find a good example image to be used for the query before applying the QBE method. Query-by-layout (QBL) is our proposal for that purpose. In particular, we make use of the visual descriptors such as the edge histogram descriptor (EHD) and the color layout descriptor (CLD) in MPEG-7. Since image features of the CLD and the EHD can be localized in terms of a$4{\times}4$ sub-image, we can specify image features such as color and edge distribution on each sub-image separately for image retrieval without a query image. Experimental results show that the proposed query method can be used to retrieve a good image as a starting point for further QBE-based image retrieval.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.10-22
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 MPEG-7 표준 비쥬얼 분야 기술자에게 영상의 질감 정보의 표현 방법에 대해 다룬다. 질감 기술자는 멀티미디어 컨텐츠 표현에 대한 국제 표준에서 칼라, 윤곽, 객체나 카메라 움직임 등과 함께 중요한 비쥬얼 특징으로 다루어지고 있으며 표준화의 대상이 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재 MPEG-7 표준안으로 잠정 채택된 휴먼 비쥬얼 시스템(Human Visual System, HVS)에 기반한 질감 기술자에 대하여 논한다. 이 방법은 라돈(Radon) 변환을 통하여 영상을 시각인지 특성에 맞게 변환하고, 뇌의 비쥬얼 피질(Visual Cortex)의 반응과 일치하게 다수개의 주파수 채널들로 질감을 분해한다. 그리고 각 채널들에서의 평균 에너지와 에너지의 편차가 영상의 질감 기술자로 추출한다. 본 논문에서 질감 영상 검색에 있어서 현재 MPEG-7 실험 데이터베이스인 T1∼T7에서 검색 율을 측정하였다. 실험결과 본 영상 질감 기술자 표현 방법은 모든 실험 데이터베이스에서 우수한 검색 성능과 빠른 특징 추출 능력을 보였다.

• 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.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2014

This paper proposes an efficient photo retrieval system that automatically indexes for searching of relevant images, using a combination of geo-coded information, direction/location of image capture device and content-based visual features. A photo image is labeled with its GPS (Global Positioning System) coordinates and direction of the camera view at the moment of capture, and the label leads to generate a geo-spatial index with three core elements of latitude, longitude and viewing direction. Then, content-based visual features are extracted and combined with the geo-spatial information, for indexing and retrieving the photo images. For user's querying process, the proposed method adopts two steps as a progressive approach, filtering the relevant subset prior to use a content-based ranking function. To evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme, we assess the simulation performance in terms of average precision and F-score, using a natural photo collection. Comparing the proposed approach to retrieve using only visual features, an improvement of 20.8% was observed. The experimental results show that the proposed method exhibited a significant enhancement of around 7.2% in retrieval effectiveness, compared to previous work. These results reveal that a combination of context and content analysis is markedly more efficient and meaningful that using only visual feature for image search.