Title
Ontology-based Secure Retrieval of Semantically Significant Visual Contents
Abstract
Image classification is an enthusiastic research field where large amount of image data is classified into various classes based on their visual contents. Researchers have presented various low-level features-based techniques for classifying images into different categories. However, efficient and effective classification and retrieval is still a challenging problem due to complex nature of visual contents. In addition, the traditional information retrieval techniques are vulnerable to security risks, making it easy for attackers to retrieve personal visual contents such as patients records and law enforcement agencies databases. Therefore, we propose a novel ontology-based framework using image steganography for secure image classification and information retrieval. The proposed framework uses domain-specific ontology for mapping the low-level image features to high-level concepts of ontologies which consequently results in efficient classification. Furthermore, the proposed method utilizes image steganography for hiding the image semantics as a secret message inside them, making the information retrieval process secure from third parties. The proposed framework minimizes the computational complexity of traditional techniques, increasing its suitability for secure and real-time visual contents retrieval from personalized image databases. Experimental results confirm the efficiency, effectiveness, and security of the proposed framework as compared with other state-of-the-art systems.
Year
Venue
DocType
2015
arXiv: Multimedia
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/1510.02177
Khan Muhammad, Irfan Mehmood, Mi Young Lee, Su Mi Ji, Sung Wook Baik, "Ontology-based Secure Retrieval of Semantically Significant Visual Contents," JOURNAL OF KOREAN INSTITUTE OF NEXT GENERATION COMPUTING, vol. 11, pp. 87-96, 2015
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Khan Muhammad198667.67
Irfan Mehmood252230.84
mi young lee370.47
Su Mi Ji470.81
Sung Wook Baik596057.77