Abstract. A substantial number of micropayment schemes in the literature are based on distributing the cost of a digital signature over several successive micropayments (e.g. Paywo...
Similarity search usually encounters a serious problem in the high dimensional space, known as the “curse of dimensionality”. In order to speed up the retrieval efficiency, p...
The explosive growth of information technology and digital content industry stimulates various video applications over the Internet. Since it is quite easy to copy, reformat, modif...
We consider the costs of access to data stored in search trees assuming that those memory accesses are managed with a cache. Our cache memory model is two-level, has a small degre...
Query by video clip (QVC) has attracted wide research interests in multimedia information retrieval. In general, QVC may include feature extraction, similaritymeasure,databaseorgan...