A repeating pattern in music data is defined as a sequence of notes which appears more
than once in a music object. The themes are a typical kind of repeating patterns. The themes …

In this paper, we present a novel indexing structure that was developed to efficiently and
accurately perform content-based shape retrieval of objects from a large-scale satellite …

ABSTRACT The problem of Music Information Retrieval can often be formalized as
“searching for multidimensional trajectories”. It is well known that string-matching techniques …

In many large-scale content-based retrieval (CBR) applications, the input to the search
process is a complex query that may be composed of several constituent parts. The …

The Cranfield tests are perhaps the most well-known and often cited example of
benchmarking of information retrieval systems. However, of the six criteria that Cleverdon …

Semantic characterization is necessary for developing intelligent multimedia databases,
because humans tend to search for media content based on their inherent semantics …

In recent years we have seen the development of several novel content-based retrieval
(CBR) systems that have had success by focusing on a specific domain and exploiting …

In this paper, a simple but efficient similarity sorting technique is proposed by which
specifically to classify color images with monotonous background into several similar …

Electronic educational applications are now becoming a reality in our everyday lives. For
many years educators and employers have been talking about the enormous potentials of e …