Digital libraries are a core information technology. When the stored data is complex, e.g. high-resolution images or molecular protein structures, simple query types like the exac...
Support vector machines (SVMs) have been widely used in multimedia retrieval to learn a concept in order to find the best matches. In such a SVM active learning environment, the ...
This paper describes an audio retrieval system,Quebex,that works on raw audio data. The system is able to retrieve songs that are rhythmically and timbrewise similar from a databa...
In many modern applications such as biometric identification systems, sensor networks, medical imaging, geology, and multimedia databases, the data objects are not described exact...
The effectiveness of many existing high-dimensional indexing structures is limited to specific types of queries and workloads. For example, while the Pyramid technique and the iMi...