FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval

Summary: FALCON enables feedback-driven retrieval for disjunctive queries in metric spaces, learning concepts from weighted positives without vectorization or feature selection. A dissimilarity estimator plus metric-indexing acceleration preserves recall and yields rapid convergence, beating scanning by up to 200%. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8847
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 7.0835179e-05
Overall Rank: 3,835 | 73.69%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Leejay Wu (Carnegie Mellon University)
2. Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)
3. Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University)
4. Terry R. Payne (Carnegie Mellon University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wu_vldb00,
        title = {{FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval}},
        author = {Wu, Leejay and Faloutsos, Christos and Sycara, Katia and Payne, Terry R.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '00},
        pages = {297},
        year = {2000}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
466	Automated Ranking of Database Query Results	2003	CIDR	0.00018014467
1,844	Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results	2004	VLDB	9.6314187e-05
7,266	SeeSaw: Interactive Ad-hoc Search Over Image Databases	2023	SIGMOD	5.6599652e-05
9,174	Qcluster: Relevance Feedback Using Adaptive Clustering for Content-Based Image Retrieval	2003	SIGMOD	5.3088343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0020210012
4	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.001157935
56	M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces	1997	VLDB	0.00040719947
145	Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees	1993	SIGMOD	0.00029548428
1,862	MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples	1998	VLDB	9.5951515e-05

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