In this paper we investigate how to scale a content based image retrieval approach beyond the RAM limits of a single computer and to make use of its hard drive to store the featur...
The Visual Thesaurus is a new query approach when no starting image is available. It is a concise representation of all similar regions in a panel of visual patches; the user arra...
Network data models are frequently used as a mechanism to describe the connectivity between spatial features in many emerging GIS applications (location-based services, transporta...
Petko Bakalov, Erik G. Hoel, Wee-Liang Heng, Vassi...
To use their pool of resources efficiently, distributed stream-processing systems push query operators to nodes within the network. Currently, these operators, ranging from simple...
Peter R. Pietzuch, Jonathan Ledlie, Jeffrey Shneid...
In high-dimensional and complex metric spaces, determining the nearest neighbor (NN) of a query object ? can be a very expensive task, because of the poor partitioning operated by...