In recentyears,databaseresearchandproduct developmentactivities havefocusedonsupport for non-traditional data types, such astext or multi-media documents.This paper describes an a...
In this paper we survey known results on algorithms, data structures, and some applications of random sampling from databases. We first discuss various reasons for sampling from d...
This paper describes research being employed in the Tripod project to improve the retrieval of photographs through a comprehensive knowledge of where they were taken. The methods ...
This paper presents an approach to realize a case retrieval engine on top of a relational database. In a nutshell the core idea is to approximate a similarity-based retrieval with ...
With the growing popularity of video sharing web sites and the increasing use of consumer-level video capture devices, new algorithms are needed for intelligent searching and inde...