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CIVR
2004
Springer
250views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2004»
16 years 20 days ago
Salient Regions for Query by Image Content
Abstract. Much previous work on image retrieval has used global features such as colour and texture to describe the content of the image. However, these global features are insuffi...
Jonathon S. Hare, Paul H. Lewis
SSD
2007
Springer
146views Database» more  SSD 2007»
16 years 1 months ago
Blind Evaluation of Nearest Neighbor Queries Using Space Transformation to Preserve Location Privacy
In this paper we propose a fundamental approach to perform the class of Nearest Neighbor (NN) queries, the core class of queries used in many of the location-based services, withou...
Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
97views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
15 years 11 months ago
Cost Based Query Scrambling for Initial Delays
Remote data access from disparate sources across a widearea network such as the Internet is problematic due to the unpredictable nature of the communications medium and the lack o...
Tolga Urhan, Michael J. Franklin, Laurent Amsaleg
SODA
1997
ACM
144views Algorithms» more  SODA 1997»
15 years 8 months ago
Methods for Achieving Fast Query Times in Point Location Data Structures
Given a collection S of n line segments in the plane, the planar point location problem is to construct a data structure that can e ciently determine for a given query point p the...
Michael T. Goodrich, Mark W. Orletsky, Kumar Ramai...
ECCV
2008
Springer
16 years 9 months ago
Improving People Search Using Query Expansions
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Thomas Mensink, Jakob J. Verbeek