In this paper we provide a fast, data-driven solution to the failing query problem: given a query that returns an empty answer, how can one relax the query's constraints so t...
Abstract. The optimized distance-based access methods currently available for multidimensional indexing in multimedia databases have been developed based on two major assumptions: ...
Anne H. H. Ngu, Quan Z. Sheng, Du Q. Huynh, Ron Le...
Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memo...
Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher ...
This paper proposes and compares two novel schemes for near duplicate image and video-shot detection. The first approach is based on global hierarchical colour histograms, using ...
Ondrej Chum, James Philbin, Michael Isard, Andrew ...
In this paper, we study how a sensor-rich world can be exploited by digital recording devices such as cameras and camcorders to improve a user’s ability to search through a larg...