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MM
2009
ACM
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16 years 10 days ago
Signature quadratic form distances for content-based similarity
Determining similarity is a fundamental task in querying multimedia databases in a content-based way. For this challenging task, there exist numerous similarity models which measu...
Christian Beecks, Merih Seran Uysal, Thomas Seidl
PAMI
2008
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15 years 5 months ago
BoostMap: An Embedding Method for Efficient Nearest Neighbor Retrieval
This paper describes BoostMap, a method for efficient nearest neighbor retrieval under computationally expensive distance measures. Database and query objects are embedded into a v...
Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, G...
ICASSP
2007
IEEE
16 years 5 days ago
Query by Example of Audio Signals using Euclidean Distance Between Gaussian Mixture Models
Query by example of multimedia signals aims at automatic retrieval of media samples from a database, which are similar to a userprovided example. This paper proposes a method for ...
Marko Helén, Tuomas Virtanen
WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 24 days ago
Generalized distances between rankings
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Ravi Kumar, Sergei Vassilvitskii
ICTIR
2009
Springer
16 years 12 days ago
A New Measure of the Cluster Hypothesis
Abstract. We have found that the nearest neighbor (NN) test is an insufficient measure of the cluster hypothesis. The NN test is a local measure of the cluster hypothesis. Designer...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan