The present paper contributes two novel techniques in the context of image restoration by nonlocal filtering. Firstly, we introduce an efficient implementation of the nonlocal mean...
Object recognition and content-based image retrieval systems rely heavily on the accurate and efficient identification of shapes. A fundamental requirement in the shape analysis p...
Dragomir Yankov, Eamonn J. Keogh, Li Wei, Xiaopeng...
So far, an efficient similarity search in multimedia databases has been carried out by metric access methods (MAMs), where the utilized similarity measure had to satisfy the metric...
Users’ search needs are often represented by words and images are retrieved according to such textual queries. Annotation words assigned to the stored images are most useful to ...
Background: Similaritysearch in chemical structure databases is an important problem with many applications in chemical genomics, drug design, and efficient chemical probe screeni...
Xiaohong Wang, Jun Huan, Aaron M. Smalter, Gerald ...