The notion of comparative similarity ‘X is more similar or closer to Y than to Z’ has been investigated in both foundational and applied areas of knowledge representation and r...
Mikhail Sheremet, Dmitry Tishkovsky, Frank Wolter,...
Nearest neighbor (NN) search in high dimensional feature space is widely used for similarity retrieval of multimedia information. However, recent research results in the database ...
Clustering is the process of grouping a set of objects into classes of similar objects. Because of unknownness of the hidden patterns in the data sets, the definition of similari...
—As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retri...
We are interested in the problem of curve identification, motivated by problems in handwriting recognition. Various geometric approaches have been proposed, with one of the most p...