In this paper, we explore the problem of processing a novel type of location based queries, named the location based top-k query, which involves both of spatial and non-spatial sp...
HaRim Jung, Byung Ku Cho, Yon Dohn Chung, Ling Liu
A large number of database index structures have been proposed over the last two decades, and little consensus has emerged regarding their relative e ectiveness. In order to empir...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Lisa Hellerstein, George Ko...
ract One important aspect of scientific data management is metadata management. Metadata is information about data (e.g., content, source, processing applied, precision). One kind ...
Nabil I. Hachem, Ke Qiu, Michael A. Gennert, Matth...
The appearance of a face image is severely affected by illumination conditions that hinder the automatic face recognition process. To recognize faces under varying illuminations, ...
In this paper we introduce the DCT-mod2 facial feature extraction technique which utilizes polynomial coefficients derived from 2-D DCT coefficients of spatially neighbouring bloc...