Metric index: An efficient and scalable solution for similarity search

2009 2nd International Workshop on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 65-73

  Novak, David ^a   Batko, Michal ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Approximation; Data structure; Metric space; Scalability; Similarity search

Indexed keywords

CLOSE-IN; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA SETS; DIGITAL IMAGE; DISTRIBUTED STORAGE; MAPPING MECHANISM; METRIC SPACES; MPEG-7 DESCRIPTORS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; RESPONSE TIME; SCALABLE SOLUTION; SEARCHING MECHANISM; SIMILARITY QUERY; SIMILARITY SEARCH; TEXT INFORMATION RETRIEVALS;

DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION SERVICES; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; SCALABILITY; SET THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70450059735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SISAP.2009.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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