In the last decades, baggage inspection based on X-ray imaging has been established to
protect environments in which access control is of vital significance. In several public …

Abstract Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a highly competitive distance measure for most
time series data mining problems. Obtaining the best performance from DTW requires …

High-precision localization is an important task for intelligent vehicles. Previous studies have
used the raw point cloud for mapping and localization. The problems with this method are …

Video compression algorithms have been designed aiming at pleasing human viewers, and
are driven by video quality metrics that are designed to account for the capabilities of the …

Determining similarities among data objects is a core task of content-based multimedia
retrieval systems. Approximating data object contents via flexible feature representations …

Point set registration is a problem with a long history in many pattern recognition tasks. This
paper presents a robust point set registration algorithm based on optimizing the distance …

Sepsis, a life‐threatening immune response to blood infections (bacteremia), has a∼ 30%
mortality rate and is the 10th leading cause of US hospital deaths. The typical bacterial loads …

Modeling image similarity for browsing and searching in voluminous image databases is a
challenging task of nearly all content-based image retrieval systems. One promising way of …

Similarity search in high-dimensional spaces is a pivotal operation for several database
applications, including online content-based multimedia services. With the increasing …

Join processing on large-scale vector data is an important problem in many applications, as
vectors are a common representation for various data types. Especially, several data …