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On Indexing Line Segments

Summary: Proposes a Hough-transform–based index for straight line segments to enable retrieval of segments through a point or intersecting a query segment. Supports approximate retrievals near a point; experiments show it matches or beats MBR/endpoints baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7978
Venue
VLDB
Year
1990
Pagerank
6.0939082e-05
Overall Rank
4,544 | 68.43%
DOI
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1,004 On Indexing Mobile Objects 1999 PODS 0.00014694512
2,001 A Qualitative Comparison Study of Data Structures for Large Line Segment Databases 1992 SIGMOD 9.8275076e-05
2,532 STRIPES: An Efficient Index for Predicted Trajectories 2004 SIGMOD 8.5886308e-05
11,131 LARGE: A Length-Aggregation-based Grid Structure for Line Density Visualization 2024 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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