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ICCV
2009
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
A Riemannian Analysis of 3D Nose Shapes For Partial Human Biometrics
In this paper we explore the use of shapes of noses for performing partial human biometrics. The basic idea is to represent nasal surfaces using indexed collections of isocurves,...
Hassen drira, Boulbaba Ben Amor, Anuj Srivastava, ...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
137views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
15 years 14 hour ago
ProVeR: Probabilistic Video Retrieval using the Gauss-Tree
Modeling objects by probability density functions (pdf) is a new powerful method to represent complex objects in databases. By representing an object as a pdf, e.g. a Gaussian, it...
Alexey Pryakhin, Christian Böhm, Matthias Sch...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
178views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
15 years 14 hour ago
Top-k Spatial Preference Queries
A spatial preference query ranks objects based on the qualities of features in their spatial neighborhood. For example, consider a real estate agency office that holds a database ...
Man Lung Yiu, Xiangyuan Dai, Nikos Mamoulis, Micha...
ICDE
2003
IEEE
117views Database» more  ICDE 2003»
15 years 13 hour ago
Design and Implementation of a Temporal Extension of SQL
We present a valid-time extension of SQL and investigate its efficient implementation on an Object-Relational database system. We propose an approach where temporal queries are ex...
Cindy Xinmin Chen, Jiejun Kong, Carlo Zaniolo
ICDE
2002
IEEE
149views Database» more  ICDE 2002»
15 years 13 hour ago
GADT: A Probability Space ADT for Representing and Querying the Physical World
Large sensor networks are being widely deployed for measurement, detection, and monitoring applications. Many of these applications involve database systems to store and process d...
Anton Faradjian, Johannes Gehrke, Philippe Bonnet