Named entities (e.g., "Kofi Annan", "Coca-Cola", "Second World War") are ubiquitous in web pages and other types of document and often provide a simpl...
Felix Weigel, Klaus U. Schulz, Levin Brunner, Edua...
This paper presents research that led to the design and implementation of fast and interactive collision detection methods that can be used to identify and report undesirable conï¬...
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are a ubiquitous and critical component of modern computing, and the result of decades of research and development in both academia and industr...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker, James ...
This paper describes BoostMap, a method for efficient nearest neighbor retrieval under computationally expensive distance measures. Database and query objects are embedded into a v...
Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, G...
Shape of an object is an important feature for image and multimedia similarity retrievals. In our previous studies we introduced a new boundary-based technique (MBC-based) for shap...