In many image or video retrieval systems, the search of similar objects in the database includes a spatial access method to a multidimensional feature space. This step is generall...
Affordable, fast computers with large memories have lessened the demand for program efficiency, but applications such as browsing and searching very large databases often have rat...
Matching local features across images is often useful when comparing or recognizing objects or scenes, and efficient techniques for obtaining image-to-image correspondences have b...
This paper proposes a hash function family based on feature vocabularies and investigates the application in building indexes for image search. Each hash function is associated wi...
In many database applications involving string data, it is common to have near neighbor queries (asking for strings that are similar to a query string) or nearest neighbor queries...