In modern application domains such as multimedia, molecular biology and medical imaging, similarity search in database systems is becoming an increasingly important task. Especial...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Stefan Brecheisen, Peer Kr&oum...
Understanding the relationship among different distance measures is helpful in choosing a proper one for a particular application. In this paper, we compare two commonly used dis...
Gang Qian, Shamik Sural, Yuelong Gu, Sakti Pramani...
The proliferation of video content on the web makes similarity detection an indispensable tool in web data management, searching, and navigation. In this paper, we propose a numbe...
Classifying an unknown input is a fundamental problem in pattern recognition. A common method is to define a distance metric between patterns and find the most similar pattern i...
Sung-Hyuk Cha, Charles C. Tappert, Sargur N. Sriha...
For categorical data there does not exist any similarity measure which is as straight forward and general as the numerical distance between numerical items. Due to this it is ofte...