Recently the method of specifying multiple regions of interest (ROI) based image retrieval has been suggested. However it measures the similarity of the images without proper consideration of the spatial layouts of the ROIs and thus fails to accurately reflect the intent of the user. In this paper, we propose a new similarity measurement using the relative layouts of the ROIs. The proposed method divides images into blocks of certain size and extracted MPEG-7 dominant colors from the blocks overlapping with the user-designated ROIs to measure their similarities with the target images. At this point, similarity was weighted when the relative location of the ROIs in the query image and the target image was the same. The relative location was calculated by four directions (i.e. up, down, left and right) of the basis ROI. The proposed method by an experiment using MPEG-7 XM shows that its performance is higher than the global image retrieval method or the retrieval method that does not consider the relative location of ROIs
Suggesting more efficient driving routes generate benefits not only for individuals by saving commute time, but also for society as a whole by reducing accident rates and social costs by lessening traffic congestion. In this paper, we suggest a new route search algorithm based on a genetic algorithm which is more easily installable into mutually communicating car navigation systems, and validate its usefulness through experiments reflecting real-world situations. The proposed algorithm is capable of searching alternative routes dynamically in unexpected events of system malfunctioning or traffic slow-downs due to accidents. Experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm searches the best route more efficiently and evolves with universal adaptability
This paper presents a design and implementation of realtime video player that operates on a tiled-display system consisting of multiple PCs to provide a very large and high resolution display. In the proposed system, the master process transmits a compressed video stream to multiple PCs using UDP multicast. All slaves(PC) receive the same video stream, decompress, clip their designated areas from the decompressed video frame, and display it to their displays while being synchronized with each other. A simple synchronization mechanism based on the H/W clock of each slave is proposed to avoid the skew between the tiles of the display, and a flow-control mechanism based on the bit-rate of the video stream and a pre-buffering scheme are proposed to prevent the jitter. The proposed system is implemented with Microsoft DirectX filter technology in order to decouple the video/audio codec from the player. Experimental results on a tiled display system with 28 PCs show that the proposed system could display a video stream in a realtime without jitter and skew.
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