Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
With the increasing use of large image and video archives and high-resolution multimedia data streams in many of today’s research and application areas, there is a growing need f...
Hard-disk drive power consumption reduction methods focus mainly on increasing the amount of time the disk is in standby mode (disk spun down) by implementing aggressive data read...
Abstract. We consider a setting with numerous location-aware moving objects that communicate with a central server. Assuming a set of focal points of interest, we aim at continuous...
In this paper we present a novel interface for selecting sounds in audio mixtures. Traditional interfaces in audio editors provide a graphical representation of sounds which is ei...