Abstract. In many application domains, e.g. sensor databases, traffic management or recognition systems, objects have to be compared based on positionally and existentially uncert...
Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Ren...
Materialized views (MV) can significantly improve the query performance of relational databases. In this paper, we consider MVs to optimize complex scenarios where many heterogen...
Leonardo Weiss Ferreira Chaves, Erik Buchmann, Fab...
Predicting and optimizing the performance of ray shooting is a very important problem in computer graphics due to the severe computational demands of ray tracing and other applicat...
Due to their general and robust formulation deformable models offer a very appealing approach to 3D image segmentation. However there is a trade-off between model genericity, mode...
— An approximate string query is to find from a collection of strings those that are similar to a given query string. Answering such queries is important in many applications su...