— One of the critical issues in search engines is the size of search indexes: as the number of documents handled by an engine increases, the search must preserve its efficiency,...
Similarity search in metric spaces has several important applications both in centralized and distributed environments. In centralized applications, such as similarity-based image ...
Similarity search in metric spaces is a general paradigm that can be used in several application fields. It can also be effectively exploited in content-based image retrieval syst...
As it becomes increasingly viable to capture, store, and share large amounts of image and video data, automatic image analysis is crucial to managing visual information. Many prob...
Many modern database applications require content-based similarity search capability in numeric attribute space. Further, users' notion of similarity varies between search se...