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EDBT
1998
ACM
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14 years 4 days ago
Processing Complex Similarity Queries with Distance-Based Access Methods
Efficient evaluation of similarity queries is one of the basic requirements for advanced multimedia applications. In this paper, we consider the relevant case where complex similar...
Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella, Pavel Zezula
W2GIS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Database and Representation Issues in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Abstract. A review is provided of some database and representation issues involved in the implementation of geographic information systems (GIS). The increasing popularity of web-b...
Hanan Samet
GIS
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Improving the R*-tree with outlier handling techniques
The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
Tian Xia, Donghui Zhang
ICIP
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Spatial and Color Spaces Combination for Natural Scene Text Extraction
Natural scene images brought new challenges for a few years and one of them is text understanding over images or videos. Text extraction which consists to segment textual foregrou...
Bernard Gosselin, Céline Mancas-Thillou
GIS
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A novel improvement to the R*-tree spatial index using gain/loss metrics
The R*-tree is a state-of-the-art spatial index structure. It has already found its way into commercial systems. The most important improvement of the R*-tree over the original R-...
Donghui Zhang, Tian Xia