The unarguably fast, and continuous, growth of the volume of indexed (and indexable) documents on the Web poses a great challenge for search engines. This is true regarding not on...
Almost conventional search engines employ centralized architecture. However, such an engine is not suitable for fresh information retrieval because it spends a long time to collec...
Nearest Neighbor (NN) retrieval is a crucial tool of many computer vision tasks. Since the brute-force naive search is too time consuming for most applications, several tailored d...
Several time series matching techniques have been proposed for content-based music retrieval. These techniques represent a melody by a time series of pitch values and use time war...
This paper presents an efficient indexing and retrieval scheme for searching in document image databases. In many non-European languages, optical character recognizers are not very...