Scene content understanding facilitates a large number of applications, ranging from content-based image retrieval to other multimedia applications. Material detection refers to t...
The range searching problem is fundamental in a wide spectrum of applications such as radio frequency identification (RFID) networks, location based services (LBS), and global po...
Shortest path computation is one of the most common queries in location-based services that involve transportation networks. Motivated by scalability challenges faced in the mobil...
This paper proposes a new image representation scheme for database indexing. The application domain is \image-based" indexing as opposed to \content-based" indexing. In ...
Despite the existence of obstacles in many database applications, traditional spatial query processing utilizes the Euclidean distance metric assuming that points in space are dire...
Jun Zhang, Dimitris Papadias, Kyriakos Mouratidis,...