Aggregate similarity search, a.k.a. aggregate nearest neighbor (Ann) query, finds many useful applications in spatial and multimedia databases. Given a group Q of M query objects...
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...
Approaches to indexing and searching feature vectors are an indispensable factor to support similarity search effectively and efficiently. Such feature vectors extracted from real...
One of the most important and challenging questions in the area of clustering is how to choose the best-fitting algorithm and parameterization to obtain an optiml clustering for t...
Martin Hahmann, Peter Benjamin Volk, Frank Rosenth...