Techniques for similarity searching in multimedia databases are reviewed. This includes a discussion of the curse of dimensionality, as well as multidimensional indexing, distance...
Most similarity search techniques map the data objects into some high-dimensional feature space. The similarity search then corresponds to a nearest-neighbor search in the feature...
Similarity search in large multimedia databases is an important issue in nowadays multimedia environment. Multimedia objects such as music videos usually consist of multiple repre...
Efficient user-adaptable similarity search more and more increases in its importance for multimedia and spatial database systems. As a general similarity model for multi-dimension...
This tutorial provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of general techniques to efficiently support similarity queries in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedi...