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VLDB
1990
ACM
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Query Processing for Distance Metrics
In applications such as vision and molecular biology, a common problem is to find the similar objects to a given target (according to some distance measure) in a large database. T...
Jason Tsong-Li Wang, Dennis Shasha
KDD
1997
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Fast Pattern Matching in Time Series Databases
Theproblemof efficiently and accurately locating patterns of interest in massivetimeseries data sets is an important and non-trivial problemin a wide variety of applications, incl...
Eamonn J. Keogh, Padhraic Smyth
ICMCS
2000
IEEE
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Color Based Retrieval and Recognition
In content based retrieval, color indexing is one of the most prevalent retrieval methods. Two key problems in color indexing are (1) determination of the color space and (2) fin...
Nicu Sebe, Michael S. Lew
IDA
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Similarity-Based Neural Networks for Applications in Computational Molecular Biology
This paper presents an alternative to distance-based neural networks. A distance measure is the underlying property on which many neural models rely, for example self-organizing ma...
Igor Fischer
AVBPA
2003
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Enhanced VQ-Based Algorithms for Speech Independent Speaker Identification
Abstract. Weighted distance measure and discriminative training are two different approaches to enhance VQ-based solutions for speaker identification. To account for varying import...
Ningping Fan, Justinian P. Rosca
EWCBR
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Case-Based Relational Learning of Expressive Phrasing in Classical Music
An application of relational case-based learning to the task of expressive music performance is presented. We briefly recapitulate the relational case-based learner DISTALL and em...
Asmir Tobudic, Gerhard Widmer
DEXA
2004
Springer
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On the Automation of Similarity Information Maintenance in Flexible Query Answering Systems
This paper proposes a method for automatic maintaining the similarity information for a particular class of Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS). The paper describes the three m...
Balázs Csanád Csáji, Josef K&...
DAGM
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Learning with Distance Substitution Kernels
Abstract. During recent years much effort has been spent in incorporating problem specific a-priori knowledge into kernel methods for machine learning. A common example is a-prior...
Bernard Haasdonk, Claus Bahlmann
SAC
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Similarity between Euclidean and cosine angle distance for nearest neighbor queries
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...
PKDD
2005
Springer
123views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
A Multi-metric Index for Euclidean and Periodic Matching
In many classification and data-mining applications the user does not know a priori which distance measure is the most appropriate for the task at hand without examining the produ...
Michail Vlachos, Zografoula Vagena, Vittorio Caste...