Sensor networks will shortly consist of globally deployed sensors providing real-time geo-centric information to users. Particularly, users with mobile devices will issue ad-hoc q...
Mohamed Aly, Anandha Gopalan, Jerry Zhao, Adel M. ...
Similarity search usually encounters a serious problem in the high dimensional space, known as the “curse of dimensionality”. In order to speed up the retrieval efficiency, p...
In many modern applications such as biometric identification systems, sensor networks, medical imaging, geology, and multimedia databases, the data objects are not described exact...
Among the visual features of multimedia content, shape is of particular interest because humans can often recognize objects solely on the basis of shape. Over the past three decad...
An important research issue in multimedia databases is the retrieval of similar objects. For most applications in multimedia databases, an exact search is not meaningful. Thus, mu...