Though it has cost great research efforts for decades, object recognition is still a challenging problem. Traditional methods based on machine learning or computer vision are stil...
Xin-Jing Wang, Ming Liu, Lei Zhang, Yi Li, Wei-Yin...
The explosive increase of image data on Internet has made it an important, yet very challenging task to index and automatically annotate image data. To achieve that end, sophistic...
Nearest neighbor queries are important in many settings, including spatial databases (Find the k closest cities) and multimedia databases (Find the k most similar images). Previou...
Authentication systems based on biometric features (e.g., fingerprint impressions, iris scans, human face images, etc.) are increasingly gaining widespread use and popularity. Ofte...
Performance of biometric-based recognition systems depends on various factors: database quality, image preprocessing, encoding techniques, etc. Given a biometric database and a se...