The success of popular algorithms such as k-means clustering or nearest neighbor searches depend on the assumption that the underlying distance functions reflect domain-specific n...
The inability to answer proximity queries efficiently for spaces of dimension d > 2 has led to the study of approximation to proximity problems. Several techniques have been pro...
Sunil Arya, Guilherme Dias da Fonseca, David M. Mo...
Despite the existence of obstacles in many database applications, traditional spatial query processing utilizes the Euclidean distance metric assuming that points in space are dire...
Jun Zhang, Dimitris Papadias, Kyriakos Mouratidis,...
In this paper, we present a new independent component analysis mixture vector quantization (ICAMVQ) method to summarize the video content. In particular, independent component ana...
Multimedia, especially video, is widely used in educational applications. More and more universities and corporations now provide videotaped lectures online for knowledge sharing ...
Ming Lin, Jinwei Cao, Christopher B. R. Diller, Ja...