Techniques for Similarity Searching in Multimedia Databases

Summary: Survey of similarity search in multimedia databases, highlighting scalable retrieval strategies. Analyzes curse of dimensionality, multidimensional and distance-based indexing, and nearest-neighbor search as core retrieval, with practical tradeoffs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10348
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,724 | 5.85%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1921064

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Authors

1. Hanan Samet (University of Maryland)

BibTeX Citation

@article{samet_vldb10,
        title = {{Techniques for Similarity Searching in Multimedia Databases}},
        author = {Samet, Hanan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1649--1652},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1921064},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1921064},
        year = {2010}
}

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433	Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00018532516

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