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Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing

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Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing
The nearest- or near-neighbor query problems arise in a large variety of database applications, usually in the context of similarity searching. Of late, there has been increasing interest in building search index structures for performing similarity search over high-dimensional data, e.g., image databases, document collections, time-series databases, and genome databases. Unfortunately, all known techniques for solving this problem fall prey to the curse of dimensionality." That is, the data structures scale poorly with data dimensionality; in fact, if the number of dimensions exceeds 10 to 20, searching in k-d trees and related structures involves the inspection of a large fraction of the database, thereby doing no better than brute-force linear search. It has been suggested that since the selection of features and the choice of a distance metric in typical applications is rather heuristic, determining an approximate nearest neighbor should su ce for most practical purposes. In ...
Aristides Gionis, Piotr Indyk, Rajeev Motwani
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Type Conference
Year 1999
Where VLDB
Authors Aristides Gionis, Piotr Indyk, Rajeev Motwani
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