The properties of contents stored in a computer system are very wide while the data volume treated in the system becomes very large. It is important to treat each stored object in...
Kensuke Ohta, Dai Kobayashi, Takashi Kobayashi, Ry...
We present data representations, distance measures and organizational structures for fast and efficient retrieval of similar shapes in image databases. Using the Hough Transform w...
Michail Vlachos, Zografoula Vagena, Philip S. Yu, ...
Local search algorithms are one of the effective methods for solving hard combinatorial problems. However, a serious problem of this approach is that the search often traps at loca...
Nearest Neighbor Search on Multimedia Indexing Structures Multimedia databases get larger and larger in our days, and this trend is expected to continue in the future. There are v...
Storage techniques and queries over XML databases are being widely studied. Most works store XML documents in traditional DBMSs in order to take advantage of a well established te...