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VLDB
2002
ACM
124views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
16 years 2 months ago
Efficient retrieval of similar shapes
Abstract. We propose an indexing technique for the fast retrieval of objects in 2D images based on similarity between their boundary shapes. Our technique is robust in the presence...
Davood Rafiei, Alberto O. Mendelzon
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
168views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 2 months ago
Database research in computer games
This tutorial presents an overview of the data management issues faced by computer games today. While many games do not use databases directly, they still have to process large am...
Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch, B...
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ICDE
2009
IEEE
255views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
16 years 4 months ago
Database Management as a Service: Challenges and Opportunities
Data outsourcing or database as a service is a new paradigm for data management in which a third party service provider hosts a database as a service. The service provides data man...
Ahmed Metwally, Amr El Abbadi, Divyakant Agrawal, ...
ICDE
2002
IEEE
162views Database» more  ICDE 2002»
15 years 7 months ago
Similarity Search Over Time-Series Data Using Wavelets
We consider the use of wavelet transformations as a dimensionality reduction technique to permit efficient similarity search over high-dimensional time-series data. While numerou...
Ivan Popivanov, Renée J. Miller
IMAGING
2003
15 years 3 months ago
Illuminant and Device Invariance Using Histogram Equalisation
In this paper we propose a new device and illumination invariant image representation based on an existing greyscale image enhancement technique: histogram equalisation. Our metho...
Graham D. Finlayson, Steven D. Hordley, Gerald Sch...