Aggregate similarity search, a.k.a. aggregate nearest neighbor (Ann) query, finds many useful applications in spatial and multimedia databases. Given a group Q of M query objects...
Techniques for similarity searching in multimedia databases are reviewed. This includes a discussion of the curse of dimensionality, as well as multidimensional indexing, distance...
Abstract. Similarity search in large multimedia databases requires efficient query processing based on suitable similarity models. Similarity models consist of a feature extraction...
This paper describes a multimedia, multilingual and multimodal research system called CIMWOS (Combined IMage and WOrd Spotting). CIMWOS incorporates an extensive set of multimedia...
Nick Hatzigeorgiu, Nikolaos Sidiropoulos, Harris P...
An important research issue in multimedia databases is the retrieval of similar objects. For most applications in multimedia databases, an exact search is not meaningful. Thus, mu...