Indexing Images in Oracle8i

Summary: Presents content-based image retrieval in Oracle8i Visual Information Retrieval, built on InterMedia for similarity via color, texture, and structure. Introduces an image index type using multi-level filtering with bitmap-first filters to prune search space, enabling scalable, extensible indexing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3280
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 5.327414e-05
Overall Rank: 9,035 | 38.02%
DOI: 10.1145/342009.335463

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Melliyal Annamalai (Oracle)
2. Rajiv Chopra (Oracle)
3. Susan Mavris (Oracle)
4. Samuel DeFazio (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{annamalai_sigmod00,
        title = {{Indexing Images in Oracle8i}},
        author = {Annamalai, Melliyal and Chopra, Rajiv and Mavris, Susan and DeFazio, Samuel},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '00},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/342009.335463},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/342009.335463},
        year = {2000}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,363	Efficient k-NN Search on Vertically Decomposed Data	2002	SIGMOD	7.4808966e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
353	The Query By Image Content (QBIC) System	1995	SIGMOD	0.00020370587
592	Distance-Based Indexing For High-Dimensional Metric Spaces	1997	SIGMOD	0.00016029789
864	The Pyramid-Technique: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality	1998	SIGMOD	0.00013522522

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