Web image search engine has become an important tool to organize digital images on the Web. However, most commercial search engines still use a list presentation while little effo...
Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
We propose a partitioning scheme for similarity search indexes that is called Maximal Metric Margin Partitioning (MMMP). MMMP divides the data on the basis of its distribution pat...
Due to the high performance of recent computer graphics hardware, 3D CG and CG animations have become in great demand for various applications. Many 3D models have already been cr...
A large number of computer tasks can be modeled as the search for an object near a given query. From multimedia databases to learning algorithms, data mining and pattern recognitio...