So far, an efficient similarity search in multimedia databases has been carried out by metric access methods (MAMs), where the utilized similarity measure had to satisfy the metric...
In this paper, a new type of metric that defines the similarity between musical audio signals is proposed. Based on the spectral flatness criterion, those metrics achieve low co...
How fast is the network? The speed at which real users can download content at different locations and at different times is an important metric for service providers. Knowledge o...
Alexandre Gerber, Jeffrey Pang, Oliver Spatscheck,...
In this paper, we analyze the formation of blocking artifacts as a result of quantization of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients. These artifacts are known to be the ...
During data warehouse design, the designer frequently encounters the problem of choosing among different alternatives for the same design construct. The behavior of the chosen desi...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Alkis Si...