Image similarity search is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Efficient similarity search across large image databases depends critically on the availability of compact ima...
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ct 8 Harmony search (HS) is a new meta-heuristic optimization method imitating the music improvisation process where 9 musicians improvise their instruments' pitches searching...
One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...