Thread-level speculation (TLS) is a technique that allows parts of a sequential program to be executed in parallel. TLS ensures the parallel program's behaviour remains true ...
Similarity search is a key challenge for multimedia retrieval applications where data are usually represented in high-dimensional space. Among various algorithms proposed for simi...
The small screen size of handheld mobile devices poses an inherent problem in visualizing data: very often it is too difficult and unpleasant to navigate through the plethora of p...
Dongsong Zhang, George Karabatis, Zhiyuan Chen, Bo...
Advances in image acquisition and storage technology have led to tremendous growth in very large and detailed image databases. These images, if analyzed, can reveal useful informa...
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. ...