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...
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...
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...
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...
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