Image Annotation Based on Color and Texture features

우리나라 식생활에 밀접한 관련을 가지고 있는 채소인 양파의 수급불균형 해결을 위한 생산량 예측 모형 개발의 노력이 많은 연구를 통해 이뤄지고 있다. 하지만 양파의 수확기와 저장 가능성을 고려해 봤을 때 생산량 예측만으로는 수급불균형 해결이 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 양파의 생산량 정보와 가격의 다양한 요인이 포함되어 있으며 일상에서 쉽게 접할 수 있는 인터넷 기사를 이용하여 가격 예측을 위한 감성사전을 구축하고자 한다. 양파 기사는 2012년부터 2016년까지의 데이터를 사용하였고 도매시장 가격을 통한 문서구분을 통해 4가지 TF-IDF를 비교하여 적합한 TF-IDF를 사용하였다. 분석을 위하여 분할적 군집분석 중 k-means 군집, 밀도기반군집(DBSCAN; density based spatial cluster applications with noise), 가우시안혼합분포군집(GMM; Gaussian mixture model) 군집을 통하여 가격에 대한 긍정/부정 단어를 구분한 결과 GMM 군집이 의미 있는 긍정, 부정, 무정의 3개의 사전으로 구성되었다. 구축된 사전의 합리성을 비교하기 위하여 가격 상승 기사와 가격 하락 기사의 분류에 로지스틱 회귀분석을 적용한 결과 85.7%의 정확도로 구축된 사전의 합리성을 확인할 수 있었다.Many researches are accomplished as a result of the efforts of developing the production predicting model to solve the supply imbalance of onions which are vegetables very closely related to Korean food. But considering the possibility of storing onions, it is very difficult to solve the supply imbalance of onions only with predicting the production. So, this paper s purpose is trying to build a sentiment dictionary to predict the price of onions by using the internet articles which include the informations about the production of onions and various factors of the price, and these articles are very easy to access on our daily lives. Articles about onions are from 2012 to 2016, using TF-IDF for comparing with four kinds of TF-IDFs through the documents classification of wholesale prices of onions. As a result of classifying the positive/negative words for price by k-means clustering, DBSCAN (density based spatial cluster application with noise) clustering, GMM (Gaussian mixture model) clustering which are partitional clustering, GMM clustering is composed with three meaningful dictionaries. To compare the reasonability of these built dictionary, applying classified articles about the rise and drop of the price on logistic regression, and it shows 85.7% accuracy.

In conventional full-duplex communications, dedicated symbols are transmitted to estimate both the self-interference channel and the desired signal channel in order to perform self-interference cancellation (SIC) and to detect the desired signal. However, inaccurate channel estimation will produce residual self-interference and degrade the detection performance. In this paper, we exploit Gaussian mixture model (GMM) clustering to design a full-duplex transceiver (FDT), which is able to detect the desired signal without requiring digital domain channel estimations and SIC. The frame structure of the designed FDT contains two successive phases: labelling phase and data transmission phase. In particular, the designed FDT performs cluster labelling in the labelling phase and performs GMM clustering based on expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm in the data transmission phase. Furthermore, the labelling symbol design is optimized for the overhead reduction and clustering accuracy improving. Finally, simulation results show that, the bit error rate (BER) of the designed FDT is closed to the performance of the FDT with a maximum likelihood (ML) detector and perfect channel knowledge, meanwhile is superior to the BER performance of the FDT with a ML detector and a least square (LS) channel estimator.

Image retrieval is the process of finding images in the database that are similar to the query image by measuring how close the feature values of the query image are to other images. Image retrieval is currently dominated by approaches that combine several different representations or features. The optimal weight of each feature is needed in combining the image features such as color features, texture features, and shape features. In this study, we use a multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network (MLP) method to obtain feature weights automatically and simultaneously look for optimal weights. The color moment is used to find nine color features, Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) to find four texture features, and Hu Moment to find seven shape features totaling 20 neurons and all of these features become the input layer in our MLP network. Three neurons in output layers become the automatic weight of each feature. These weights are used to combine each feature's role in obtaining the relevant image. Euclidean Distance is used to measure similarity. The average precision values obtained using automatic feature weights are 93.94% for the synthetic dataset, 91.19% for the Coil-100 dataset, and 54.31% for the Wang dataset. These results have an average difference of 5.06% with the target so automatic feature weighting works well. This value is obtained at a hidden layer size of 11 and a learning rate of 0.1. In addition, the use of automatic feature weighting gives more accurate results compared to manual feature weighting.

We introduce a method based on Gaussian mixture model (GMM) clustering and level-set to automatically detect intraretina fluid on diabetic retinopathy (DR) from spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) images in this paper. First, each B-scan is segmented using GMM clustering. The original clustering results are refined using location and thickness information. Then, the spatial information among every consecutive five B-scans is used to search potential fluid. Finally, the improved level-set method is used to obtain the accurate boundaries. The high sensitivity and accuracy demonstrated here show its potential for detection of fluid.

In this work we propose a strategy to jointly estimate activity and borders of oncological lesions in PET/CT. The starting step is constituted by a lesion contouring on PET image volume and by a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) clustering which individuates a set of regions in the lesion area (lesion, uncertainty, lesion spillout, organ). A maximum likelihood (A WOSEM) reconstruction step refines regions' borders and estimates a mean convergence activity for the lesion region. It applies a model of the scanner Point Spread Function (PSF) to recover blurring and it contemporaneously works on regional basis functions and single voxels. The area outside the four regions is frozen (i.e. not updated). The algorithm was validated on an anthropomorphic phantom in which lesions have been simulated with zeolites (clinoptilolite samples, volume 0.6 - 5.2 ml) loaded with 18F-FDG. Zeolite borders for ground truth definition were derived segmenting zeolites on coregistered CT images. For each zeolite, three different initial contouring were considered, corresponding to volumes about 100%, 60% and 140% of the true volume: the GMM clustering was able to robustly delineate regions independently from the initial contouring (variations 0.75) and in estimating zeolite activity (activity error 1ml). Suboptimal results were found for zeolites at the border of the axial FOV, since the PSF model, supposed invariant to axial shift, was inadequate at the axial borders. The proposed strategy appears promising and can be proposed as a general approach for a semi-automatic quantification and segmentation of lesions previously detected on standard clinical images. It will be further validated on data sets provided with a ground truth.

Estimation of nitrogen content in wheat using indices derived from RGB and thermal infrared imaging

This study aimed to assess the impact and vulnerability of climate change by classifying 26 clusters of meteorologically homogeneous regions. To determine the optimal clustering method, both K-means and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) clustering were analyzed using the effective storage capacity to watershed area ratio. The optimal number of clusters was derived based on several evaluation metrics, including the Silhouette Score, Calinski-Harabasz Index, Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). Ultimately, GMM clustering was identified as the optimal method, with the best clustering results obtained at k = 4 for an effective storage capacity of 100,000 to 400,000 tons and k = 5 for an effective storage capacity of 400,000 to 10,000,000 tons. Additionally, standard reservoirs applicable to agricultural production infrastructure design standards were identified based on homogeneous weather region clusters, the optimal clustering method, and centroid results. The findings of this study can serve as fundamental data for the development and revision of design standards, contributing to more climate-resilient agricultural infrastructure.

Due to the prevalence of digital cameras, it is easy to retrieve digital images from the Internet. With the rapid development of digital image processing, databases, and Internet technologies, how to efficiently manage a large amount of digital images is very important. In this paper, we proposed a novel approach for automatic image annotation. We extract color, texture, and shape features from a set of training images to build the main object classifier and background object models by using Support Vector Machine (SVM). We apply JSEG to segment background objects out of images, and then extract the feature vectors from the segmented objects for identification. In order to prevent over-segmenting the main object, the combination of Active Contour Model and JSEG is proposed to improve the system performance. Since the images in the same class have background consistency, we exploit Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to explore the relationship between image classes and image backgrounds, and build the association knowledge base. After classifying test images, we only need to compare the backgrounds with the related models for classification. Finally, the experimental results show that the proposed method has high effectiveness for image annotation.

Deep clustering was applied to unlabeled, automatically detected signals in a coral reef soundscape to distinguish fish pulse calls from segments of whale song. Deep embedded clustering (DEC) learned latent features of the signals and formed clusters using fixed-length power spectrograms of the signals. Handpicked spectral and temporal features were also extracted and clustered with Gaussian mixture models (GMM) and conventional clustering. DEC, GMM, and conventional clustering were tested on simulated datasets of fish pulse calls and whale song units with randomized bandwidth, duration, and SNR. Both GMM and DEC achieved high accuracy and identified clusters with fish calls, whale song units, and simultaneous fish calls and whale song units. Conventional clustering methods K-means and hierarchical agglomerative clustering had low accuracy in scenarios with unequally sized clusters or multiple signals. Experimentally detected fish pulse calls and whale song units recorded near Hawaii in February–March 2020 were clustered with DEC, GMM, and conventional clustering. DEC demonstrated the highest accuracy on a small, manually labeled dataset and successfully separated clusters of fish calls and whale song units. GMM achieved high recall for detecting whale song units but accuracy. Both GMM and DEC overpredicted the number of whale song unit signals.

For the favour of data partition, colour image segmentation framework is an ideal choice. This is based on colour and texture features of an image. The main objective of the proposed work consists of a new method for the extraction of colour features that assess the input image in a colour representation. To achieve this, the proposed work used the opponent characteristics of the RGB and LAB colour spaces. The texture features are computed using a gabor filter. The prime role of this work rests in the integration of the colour and texture features with the aim of identifying the homogenous regions in the image. The accuracy for extraction of colour texture was established by the proposed method.

Wood species identification using feature-level fusion scheme

The aims of this paper are two-fold: to define Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) of colored texture on several feature spaces and to compare the performance of these models in various classification tasks, both with each other and with other models popular in the literature. We construct GMMs over a variety of different color and texture feature spaces, with a view to the retrieval of textured color images from databases. We compare supervised classification results for different choices of color and texture features using the Vistex database, and explore the best set of features and the best GMM configuration for this task. In addition we introduce several methods for combining the ‘color’ and ‘structure’ information in order to improve the classification performances. We then apply the resulting models to the classification of texture databases and to the classification of man-made and natural areas in aerial images. We compare the GMM model with other models in the literature, and show an overall improvement in performance.

We address the problem of localizing objects using color, texture and shape. Given a handrawn sketch for querying an object shape, and its color and texture, the algorithm automatically searches the database images for objects which meet the query attributes. The database images do not need to be presegmented or annotated. The proposed algorithm operates in two stages. In the first stage, we use local texture and color features to find a small number of candidate images, and identify regions in the candidate images which share similar texture and color as the query example. To speed up the processing, the texture and color features are directly extracted from the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) compressed domain. In the second stage, we use a deformable template matching method to match the query shape to the image edges at the locations which possess the desired texture and color attributes. This algorithm is different from the other content-based image retrieval algorithms in that: (i) no presegmentation of the database images is needed, and (ii) the color and texture features are directly extracted from the compressed images. Experimental results show that substantial computational savings can be achieved utilizing multiple image cues.

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems utilize low level query image feature as identifying similarity between a query image and the image database.Image contents are plays significant role for image retrieval.There are three fundamental bases for content-based image retrieval, i.e. visual feature extraction, multidimensional indexing, and retrieval system design.Each image has three contents such as: color, texture and shape features.Color and texture both plays important image visual features used in Content-Based Image Retrieval to improve results.Color histogram and texture features have potential to retrieve similar images on the basis of their properties.As the feature extracted from a query is low level, it is extremely difficult for user to provide an appropriate example in based query.To overcome these problems and reach higher accuracy in CBIR system, providing user with relevance feedback is famous for provide promising solution.

This paper proposes three image features for use in image retrieval. The first image feature is based on color distribution and is called an adaptive color histogram (ACH). The second and third image features, called adaptive motifs co-occurrence matrix (AMCOM) and gradient histogram for adaptive motifs (GHAM), are based on color and texture features, respectively. ACH uses three steps, including cluster drop, auto cluster merge and auto cluster split to improve the K-mean algorithm. AMCOM is commonly used and is a generally conventional AMCOM. GHAM estimates the average gradient of pixels in a motif of pattern blocks and creates a histogram of the average gradient corresponding to motifs of pattern blocks. We integrate ACH, AMCOM and GHAM to form an AMCGH system to facilitate a more accurate and efficient image retrieval system. To present the performance of the proposed system, four different image databases, including gray texture images, two types of color texture images and color natural images, are tested and analyzed.