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CVPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Estimating Illumination Direction from Textured Images
We study the problem of estimating the illuminant's direction from images of textured surfaces. Given an isotropic, Gaussian random surface with constant albedo, Koenderink an...
Manik Varma, Andrew Zisserman
EDBT
2009
ACM
127views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
16 years 25 days ago
Approximate substring selectivity estimation
We study the problem of estimating selectivity of approximate substring queries. Its importance in databases is ever increasing as more and more data are input by users and are in...
Hongrae Lee, Raymond T. Ng, Kyuseok Shim
SAC
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Selectivity estimation in spatial networks
Modern applications requiring spatial network processing pose many interesting query optimization challenges. In many cases, query processing depends on the corresponding graph si...
Eleftherios Tiakas, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Ale...
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
109views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
15 years 10 months ago
Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates
Many commercial database systems maintain histograms to summarize the contents of relations and permit efficient estimation of query result sizes and access plan costs. Although s...
Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Peter J. H...
DEXA
2006
Springer
151views Database» more  DEXA 2006»
15 years 8 months ago
An Incremental Refining Spatial Join Algorithm for Estimating Query Results in GIS
Geographic information systems (GIS) must support large georeferenced data sets. Due to the size of these data sets finding exact answers to spatial queries can be very time consum...
Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Scott T. Leutenegger