TKDE
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
—We investigate the problem of retrieving similar shapes from a large database; in particular, we focus on medical tumor shapes (“Find tumors that are similar to a given patter...
ADBIS
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1999
Springer
In this paper we propose and analyze a new spatial access method, namely the S∗ -tree, for the efficient secondary memory encoding and manipulation of images containing multiple ...
EDBT
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2006
ACM
Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
ICIP
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2004
IEEE
In many image or video retrieval systems, the search of similar objects in the database includes a spatial access method to a multidimensional feature space. This step is generall...