Relational index structures, as for instance the Relational Interval Tree, the Relational R-Tree, or the Linear Quadtree, support efficient processing of queries on top of existing...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
In many database applications involving string data, it is common to have near neighbor queries (asking for strings that are similar to a query string) or nearest neighbor queries...
Many scientific applications generate large spatiotemporal datasets. A common way of exploring these datasets is to identify and track regions of interest. Usually these regions ...
Kesheng Wu, Wendy S. Koegler, Jacqueline Chen, Ari...
Various retrieval models have been developed and analyzed so far, but less research aims to an integration of the different models within a common framework. This paper introduces ...
—Compound images are a combination of text, graphics and natural image. They present strong anisotropic features, especially on the text and graphics parts. These anisotropic fea...