Contextual information such as spatial location can significantly enhance the utility of mobile applications. We introduce the concept of active preferences that represent a comb...
In this paper, we present a large-scale object retrieval system. The user supplies a query object by selecting a region of a query image, and the system returns a ranked list of i...
James Philbin, Ondrej Chum, Michael Isard, Josef S...
Spatial data mining is a process used to discover interesting but not explicitly available, highly usable patterns embedded in both spatial and nonspatial data, which are possibly ...
Rapid development of information technology such as mobile terminals and GPS systems enabled information services that provide location-oriented information based on users’ posit...
An algorithm is presented to answer window queries in a quadtree-based spatial database environment by retrieving the covering blocks in the underlying spatial database. It works ...