Rapid advances in mobile communication technology have spawned many new mobile applications. A key element in many of these systems is the need to distribute real-time information...
Abstract. In this paper we present an index structure, called MetricMap, that takes a set of objects and a distance metric and then maps those objects to a k-dimensional space in s...
Xiong Wang, Jason Tsong-Li Wang, King-Ip Lin, Denn...
Object-level image retrieval is an active area of research. Given an image, a human observerdoesnot see randomdots of colors. Rather,he she observesfamiliarobjectsin the image. The...
We propose a new technique for direct visual matching of images for the purposes of face recognition and image retrieval, using a probabilistic measure of similarity, based primar...
The proliferation of spatial data on the Internet is beginning to allow a much wider access to data currently available in various Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In order t...