The performance of an automatic fingerprint authentication system relies heavily on the quality of the captured fingerprint images. In this paper, two new quality indices for fi...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a new approach to indexing multidimensional data that is particularly suitable for the efficient incremental processing of nearest neighbor quer...
Support for temporal text-containment queries (query for all versions of documents that contained one or more particular words at a particular time t) is of interest in a number of...
Abstract. In order to be useful, intelligent information retrieval agents must provide their users with context-relevant information. This paper presents WordSieve, an algorithm fo...
Although the issue of approximate text retrieval is gaining importance in the last years, it is currently addressed by only a few indexing schemes. To reduce space requirements, t...