XML is by now the de facto standard for exporting and exchanging data on the web. The need for querying XML data sources whose structure is not fully known to the user and the need...
Given a point set S and an unknown metric d on S, we study the problem of efficiently partitioning S into k clusters while querying few distances between the points. In our model ...
Konstantin Voevodski, Maria-Florina Balcan, Heiko ...
Abstract—Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems show numerous advantages over centralized systems, such as load balancing, scalability, and fault tolerance, and they require certain function...
Thomas Bocek, Ela Hunt, David Hausheer, Burkhard S...
A new algorithm is presented which approximates the perceived visual similarity between images. The images are initially transformed into a feature space which captures visual str...
Image matching has been a central problem in computer vision and image processing for decades. Most of the previous approaches to image matching can be categorized into the intens...
Chyuan-Huei Thomas Yang, Shang-Hong Lai, Long-Wen ...