Recently, the C# and the VISUAL BASIC communities were tantalized by the advent of LINQ [18]--the Language INtegrated Query technology from Microsoft. LINQ represents a set of lan...
Applications like multimedia retrieval require efficient support for similarity search on large data collections. Yet, nearest neighbor search is a difficult problem in high dimen...
Arjen P. de Vries, Nikos Mamoulis, Niels Nes, Mart...
In todays increasingly dynamic and competitive business environment, organizations strive to leverage their information resources to gain and sustain competitive advantage. Deci...
We present a study investigating two novel mobile services supporting querying for information in the urban environment using camera equipped smart phones as well as two different...
Similarity search is widely used in multimedia retrieval systems to find the most similar ones for a given object. Some similarity measures, however, are not metric, leading to e...