One of the most important types of query processing in spatial databases and geographic information systems is the spatial join, an operation that selects, from two relations, all...
Modern geographic databases can contain a large volume of data that need to be distributed to subscribed customers. The data can be modeled as a cube, where typical dimensions inc...
Database search for images containing icons with specific mutual spatial relationships can be facilitated by an appropriately structured index. For the case of images containing s...
: 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...
In this paper, we propose a method for extracting color image features, called color index local auto-correlations. Pixel color is quantized and described sparsely in a manner sim...