—Metric space searching is an emerging technique to address the problem of efficient similarity searching in many applications, including multimedia databases and other reposito...
Complex social and information network search becomes important with a variety of applications. In the core of these applications, lies a common and critical problem: Given a labe...
Arijit Khan, Nan Li, Xifeng Yan, Ziyu Guan, Supriy...
In many image or video retrieval systems, the search of similar objects in the database includes a spatial access method to a multidimensional feature space. This step is generall...
We propose an algorithm, MusicBLAST, for approximate pattern search/matching on symbolic musical data. MusicBLAST is based on the BLAST algorithm, one of the most commonly used al...
Histograms are typically used to approximate data distributions. Histograms and related synopsis structures have been successful in a wide variety of popular database applications...