We consider a fundamental problem in data structures, static predecessor searching: Given a subset S of size n from the universe [m], store S so that queries of the form “What i...
: Schema matching is the task of finding semantic correspondences between elements of two schemas, which plays a key role in many database applications. In this paper, we cast the ...
Zhi Zhang, Pengfei Shi, Haoyang Che, Yong Sun, Jun...
Image retrieval based on content from digital libraries, multimedia databases, the Internet, and other sources has been an important problem addressed by several researchers. In t...
Traditional database query formulation is intensional: at the level of schemas, table and column names. Previous work has shown that filters can be created using a query paradigm ...
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...