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ISCI
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
A performance comparison of distance-based query algorithms using R-trees in spatial databases
Efficient processing of distance-based queries (DBQs) is of great importance in spatial databases due to the wide area of applications that may address such queries. The most repr...
Antonio Corral, Jesús Manuel Almendros-Jim&...
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web
Background: A fundamental goal of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) "Roadmap" is to strengthen Translational Research, defined as the movement of discoveries i...
Alan Ruttenberg, Tim Clark, William Bug, Matthias ...
ICCV
2009
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Directional Statistics BRDF Model
We introduce a novel parametric BRDF model that can accurately encode a wide variety of real-world isotropic BRDFs with a small number of parameters. The key observation we make...
Ko Nishino
ICCV
2009
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
The Dimensionality of Scene Appearance
Low-rank approximation of image collections (e.g., via PCA) is a popular tool in many areas of computer vision. Yet, surprisingly little is known justifying the observation that...
Rahul Garg, Hao Du, Steven M. Seitz, Noah Snavely
ICCV
2009
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Kernelized Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Scalable Image Search
Fast retrieval methods are critical for large-scale and data-driven vision applications. Recent work has explored ways to embed high-dimensional features or complex distance fun...
Brian Kulis, Kristen Grauman