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SAC
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Indexing continuously changing data with mean-variance tree
: Traditional spatial indexes like R-tree usually assume the database is not updated frequently. In applications like location-based services and sensor networks, this assumption i...
Yuni Xia, Sunil Prabhakar, Shan Lei, Reynold Cheng...
EDBT
2004
ACM
142views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
15 years 5 months ago
Computing and Handling Cardinal Direction Information
Qualitative spatial reasoning forms an important part of the commonsense reasoning required for building intelligent Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Previous research has c...
Spiros Skiadopoulos, Christos Giannoukos, Panos Va...
COSIT
2001
Springer
197views GIS» more  COSIT 2001»
15 years 4 months ago
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical spac...
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, Douglas Tudhop...
VRML
1998
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Using VRML as an Interface to the 3D Data Warehouse
In its current state, VRML does not provide support for interaction and on-line access to databases, even though these are two fundamental issues for business applications. We hav...
Volker Coors, Volker Jung
MM
1996
ACM
538views Multimedia» more  MM 1996»
15 years 3 months ago
Comparing Images Using Color Coherence Vectors
Color histograms are used to compare images in many applications. Their advantages are efficiency, and insensitivity to small changes in camera viewpoint. However, color histogram...
Greg Pass, Ramin Zabih, Justin Miller