We have observed in recent years a growing interest in similarity search on large collections of biological sequences. Contributing to the interest, this paper presents a method fo...
Abstract. Similarity search in large multimedia databases requires efficient query processing based on suitable similarity models. Similarity models consist of a feature extraction...
The similarity join is an important database primitive which has been successfully applied to speed up applications such as similarity search, data analysis and data mining. The s...
Region-based image retrieval systems aim to improve the effectiveness of content-based search by decomposing each image into a set of “homogeneous” regions. Thus, similarity b...
Determining similarity is a fundamental task in querying multimedia databases in a content-based way. For this challenging task, there exist numerous similarity models which measu...