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In this paper, we proposed an automatic segmentation method of object color images with irregular texture. Recently segmentation often used for the image retrieval and in the application. It is more important to approximate the regions than to decide precise region boundary. A color image is divided into blocks, and edge strength for each block is computed by using the modified color histogram intersection method that has been developed to differentiate object boundaries from irregular texture boundaries effectively. The edge strength is defined to have high values at the object boundaries, while it is designed to have relatively low values at the texture boundaries or in the interior of a region. The proposed method works based on small-size blocks, the color histogram of each of which is computed preliminarily once. Thus it works fast but provides rough segmentation. A hybrid color quantization method is used to select a small number of appropriately quantized colors quickly. The proposed method can be applicable for the segmentation in object based image retrieval.

Multiple-count problem is occurred when rectangle objects span across several buckets. The Cumulative Density (CD) histogram is a technique which solves multiple-count problem by keeping four sub-histograms corresponding to the four points of rectangle. Although it provides exact results with constant response time, there is still a considerable issue. Since it is based on a query window which aligns with a given grid, a number of errors may be occurred when it is applied to real applications. In this paper, we proposed selectivity estimation techniques using the generalized cumulative density histogram based on two probabilistic models: (1) probabilistic model which considers the query window area ratio, (2) probabilistic model which considers intersection area between a given grid and objects. In order to evaluate the proposed methods, we experimented with real dataset and experimental results showed that the proposed technique was superior to the existing selectivity estimation techniques. The proposed techniques can be used to accurately quantify the selectivity of the spatial range query on rectangle objects.

칼라 히스토그램 인터섹션 방법은 칼라 분포간의 유사도를 측정하는데 널리 사용된다 하지만 이 방법은 칼라 공간을 고정된 칼라수로 양자화시킨 경우에만 유효하므로 칼라 공간에 대한 분할 문제와 양자화 레벨의 결정 문제를 내포하고 있다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 고정 양자화된 칼라 분포뿐만 아니라 적응적 양자화되어 상이한 칼라분포를 갖는 영상간의 정합에 적용 가능한 확장 칼라 히스토그램 인터섹션 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 생산자가 생산된 상품을 소비자에게 공급하는 동안 생산효율을 계산하여 경제적 이익을 최대화 시키기 위한 생산자-소비자 모델로 간주되어질 수 있다 실험을 통해 우리는 제안된 방법이 두 칼라 분포간의 유사도를 효과적으로 측정할 수 있음을 확인하였다

본 논문에서는 사용자가 질의영상을 선택할 때 영상전체 뿐만 아니라 영상내의 다양한 물체에 대해 질의를 원하는 물체영역만을 간단히 선택, 추출하여 그와 유사한 물체를 영상 데이터베이스 내에서 검색할 수 있는 내용기반 영상검색 시스템을 구현하였다. 질의영상으로부터 개선된 HSV변환을 통해 히스토그램을 구한 뒤 질의영상의 대표색상을 이용한 컬러 히스토그램 인터섹션방법으로 신속하게 1차 유사도 측정을 하여 후보영상들을 검색한다. 그리고 밴디드 컬러 오토코릴로그램을 이용한 2차 유사도 측정을 수행하여 최종 검색된 영상을 구하였는데 각각의 단점을 보완할 수 있는 2개의 검색방법들을 결합함으로써 소환성(recall) 및 정확성(precision)을 개선하였다. 또한 영상데이터베이스내의 영상들을 특성 라이브러리내에 자통 색인화하여 이를 통해 빠른 영상검색이 가능하였다.

In this paper, when users choose a query image, we implemented a content-based image retrieval system that users can simply choose and extract a object region of query wanted with not only a whole image but various objects in it. Histogram is obtained by improved HSV transformations from query image and then candidate images are retrieved rapidly by a 1st similarity measure with histogram intersection using representative colors of query image. And finally retrieved images are extracted since 2nd similarity measure with banded autocorrelogram is performed so that recall and precision are improved by combining two retrieval methods that can make up for respective weak points. Moreover images in the database are indexed automatically within feature library that makes possible to retrieve images rapidly.