Given a pair of images represented using bag-of-visual words and a label corresponding to whether the images are “related”(must-link constraint) or “unrelated” (must not li...
Object recognition and content-based image retrieval systems rely heavily on the accurate and efficient identification of shapes. A fundamental requirement in the shape analysis p...
Dragomir Yankov, Eamonn J. Keogh, Li Wei, Xiaopeng...
Logical constraints, (e.g., 'phone numbers in toronto can have prefixes 416, 647, 905 only'), are ubiquitous in relational databases. Traditional integrity constraints, ...
Amit Chandel, Nick Koudas, Ken Q. Pu, Divesh Sriva...
A large number of database index structures have been proposed over the last two decades, and little consensus has emerged regarding their relative e ectiveness. In order to empir...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Lisa Hellerstein, George Ko...
The task of clustering is to identify classes of similar objects among a set of objects. The definition of similarity varies from one clustering model to another. However, in most ...