Efficient user-adaptable similarity search more and more increases in its importance for multimedia and spatial database systems. As a general similarity model for multi-dimension...
The MPEG-7 dominant color descriptor (DCD) is an effective, compact, and intuitive representation of salient colors in an image region and is very useful for contentbased image re...
Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP) (http://mips.gsf. 10 de/simap) provides a database based on a precomputed similarity matrix covering the similarity space formed by .4 millio...
Roland Arnold, Thomas Rattei, Patrick Tischler, Mi...
The design of efficient textual similarities is an important issue in the domain of textual data exploration. Textual similarities are for example central in document collection s...
When we encounter an English word that we do not understand, we can look it up in a dictionary. However, when an American Sign Language (ASL) user encounters an unknown sign, looki...