In many modern data management settings, data is queried from a central node or nodes, but is stored at remote sources. In such a setting it is common to perform "pushstyle&qu...
We examine the problem of evaluating selection queries over imprecisely represented objects. Such objects are used either because they are much smaller in size than the precise on...
Optimizing queries that involve operations on spatial data requires estimating the selectivity and cost of these operations. In this paper, we focus on estimating the cost of spat...
Image classification often relies on texture characterization. Yet texture characterization has so far rarely been based on a true 2D multifractal analysis. Recently, a 2D wavelet...
Social tagging provides valuable and crucial information for large-scale web image retrieval. It is ontology-free and easy to obtain; however, irrelevant tags frequently appear, a...