The European MIAMM-project (Multidimensional Information Access using Multiple Modalities) develops new concepts and techniques for multimodal dialogs that allow for fast and natu...
Myra P. van Esch-Bussemakers, Anita H. M. Cremers,...
Popular image retrieval schemes generally rely only on a single mode, (either low level visual features or embedded text) for searching in multimedia databases. Many popular image...
The typical mode for querying in an image content-based information system is query-by-example, which allows the user to provide an image as a query and to search for similar imag...
Given an object q, modeled by a multidimensional point, a reverse nearest neighbors (RNN) query returns the set of objects in the database that have q as their nearest neighbor. I...
Enterprises may have multiple database systems spread across the organization for redundancy or for serving different applications. In such systems, query workloads can be distrib...