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ICIAP
1995
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Image Retrieval by Elastic Matching of User Sketches
—Effective image retrieval by content from database requires that visual image properties are used instead of textual labels to properly index and recover pictorial data. Retriev...
Alberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala
PODS
2006
ACM
216views Database» more  PODS 2006»
16 years 3 months ago
Cache-oblivious string B-trees
B-trees are the data structure of choice for maintaining searchable data on disk. However, B-trees perform suboptimally ? when keys are long or of variable length, ? when keys are...
Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Bradley C...
TCS
1998
15 years 2 months ago
Foundations of Aggregation Constraints
We introduce a new constraint domain, aggregation constraints, that is useful in database query languages, and in constraint logic programming languages that incorporate aggregate...
Kenneth A. Ross, Divesh Srivastava, Peter J. Stuck...
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
190views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
16 years 3 months ago
Hardware Acceleration for Spatial Selections and Joins
Spatial database operations are typically performed in two steps. In the filtering step, indexes and the minimum bounding rectangles (MBRs) of the objects are used to quickly dete...
Chengyu Sun, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
EDBT
2011
ACM
225views Database» more  EDBT 2011»
14 years 6 months ago
On (not) indexing quadratic form distance by metric access methods
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
Tomás Skopal, Tomás Bartos, Jakub Lo...