One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...
High-dimensional indexing has been very popularly used for performing similarity search over various data types such as multimedia (audio/image/video) databases, document collectio...
Rahul Malik, Sangkyum Kim, Xin Jin, Chandrasekar R...
Pattern matching in point sets is a well studied problem with numerous applications. We assume that the point sets may contain outliers (missing or spurious points) and are subjec...
We present several methods for mining knowledge from the query logs of the MSN search engine. Using the query logs, we build a time series for each query word or phrase (e.g., `Th...
Michail Vlachos, Christopher Meek, Zografoula Vage...
Similarity search leveraging distance-based index structures is increasingly being used for both multimedia and biological database applications. We consider distance-based indexi...
Rui Mao, Weijia Xu, Smriti R. Ramakrishnan, Glen N...