We propose a novel technique for semi-supervised image annotation which introduces a harmonic regularizer based on the graph Laplacian of the data into the probabilistic semantic ...
Yuanlong Shao, Yuan Zhou, Xiaofei He, Deng Cai, Hu...
The Internet contains billions of images, freely available online. Methods for efficiently searching this incredibly rich resource are vital for a large number of applications. Th...
With ever growing databases containing multimedia data, indexing has become a necessity to avoid a linear search. We propose a novel technique for indexing multimedia databases in...
M. Fatih Demirci, Reinier H. van Leuken, Remco C. ...
Similarity search leveraging distance-based index structures is increasingly being used for both multimedia and biological database applications. We consider distance-based indexi...
Rui Mao, Weijia Xu, Smriti R. Ramakrishnan, Glen N...
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...