Applications ranging from location-based services to multi-player online gaming require continuous query support to monitor, track, and detect events of interest among sets of mov...
The Partitioned Based Spatial-Merge Join (PBSM) of Patel and DeWitt and the Size Separation Spatial Join (S3 J) of Koudas and Sevcik are considered to be among the most efficient ...
Volunteered geographic information such as that available in blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and community contributed photo collections is enabling new applications. This ...
—In this paper we propose a symbol spotting technique through hashing the shape descriptors of graph paths (Hamiltonian paths). Complex graphical structures in line drawings can ...
Efficient storage and retrieval of trajectory indexes has become an essential requirement for moving objects databases. The existing 3DR-tree is known to be an effective trajectory...