Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
An unsupervised nonparametric approach is proposed to automatically extract representative face samples (exemplars) from a video sequence or an image set for multipleshot face rec...
This paper examines issues arising in applying a previously developed edit-distance shock graph matching technique to indexing into large shape databases. This approach compares th...
Thomas B. Sebastian, Philip N. Klein, Benjamin B. ...
A growing number of databases especially those published on the Web are becoming available to external users. Users of these databases are provided simple form-based query interfa...
There are two broad approaches to query evaluation over probabilistic databases: (1) Intensional Methods proceed by manipulating expressions over symbolic events associated with u...