초록

산업재산권중 하나인 상표에 대한 효율적인 이미지 검색은 상표도용 및 이로 인한 분쟁을 방지할 수 있다. 이를 위해서 효율적인 내용기반 유사이미지 검색이 하나의 방안이 될 수 있다. 본 논문은 상표이미지로부터 회색조 히스토그램(gray histogram) 분석을 통하여 가시적인 자질을 추출하여 Self Organizing Map(SOM) 알고리즘을 적용한 내용기반 유사이미지 검색시스템을 이용하는 방법을 제안하였다. 또한 내용기반 유사이미지 검색시스템의 정량적인 성능평가 방안을 제시하여 본 연구에서 개발한 이미지 검색 시스템의 객관적인 성능평가를 수행하였다.

Abstract

It will be possible to prevent the infringement of the trademarks and the insueing disputes regarding the originality of the trademarks by using an efficient content-based trademark image retrieval system. In this paper, we describe a content-based image retrieval system using the Self Organizing Map(SOM) algorithm. The SOM algorithm utilizes the visual features, which were derived from the gray histogram representation of the images. In addition, we made the objective effectiveness evaluation possible by coming up with a quantitative measure to gauge the effectiveness of the content-based image retrieval system.

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Abstract

In many information retrieval experiments, the data fusion techniques have been used to achieve higher effectiveness in comparison to the single evidence-based retrieval. However, there had not been many image retrieval studies using the data fusion techniques especially in combining retrieval results based on multiple retrieval methods. In this paper, we describe how the image retrieval effectiveness can be improved by combining two sets of the retrieval results using the Sobel operator-based edge detection and the Self Organizing Map(SOM) algorithms. We used the clip art images from a commercial collection to develop a test data set. The main advantage of using this type of the data set was the clear cut relevance judgment, which did not require any human interven- tion.