An image quality matrix provides a significant principle for objectively observing an based on alteration between the original and distorted images. During past two decades, novel universal assessment has been developed with ability of adaptation human visual perception measuring difference degraded from reference image, namely structural similarity index. Structural since widely used in variou...

Similarity search in complex databases is of utmost interest in a wide range of application domains. Often, complex objects are described by several representations. The combination of these different representations usually contains more information compared to only one representation. In our work, we introduce the use of an index structure in combination with a negotiation-theorybased approac...

Similarity Joins are some of the most useful and powerful data processing operations. They retrieve all the pairs of data points between different data sets that are considered similar within a certain threshold. This operation is useful in many situations, such as record linkage, data cleaning, and many other applications. An important method to implement efficient Similarity Joins is the use ...