We suggest a variation of the Hellerstein-Koutsoupias--Papadimitriou indexability model for datasets equipped with a similarity measure, with the aim of better understanding the s...
Most multimedia information retrieval systems use an indexing scheme to speed up similarity search. The index aims to discard large portions of the data collection at query time. ...
Social (or folksonomic) tagging has become a very popular way to describe content within Web 2.0 websites. However, as tags are informally defined, continually changing, and ungo...
Giovanni Quattrone, Licia Capra, Pasquale De Meo, ...
Abstract. The retrieval of objects from a multimedia database employs a measure which defines a similarity score for every pair of objects. The measure should effectively follow th...
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...