Nearest-neighbor searching under uncertainty II
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Journal Article
© 2016 ACM. Nearest-neighbor search, which returns the nearest neighbor of a query point in a set of points, is an important and widely studied problem in many fields, and it has a wide range of applications. In many of them, such as sensor databases, location-based services, face recognition, and mobile data, the location of data is imprecise. We therefore study nearest-neighbor queries in a probabilistic framework in which the location of each input point is specified as a probability distribution function. We present efficient algorithms for (i) computing all points that are nearest neighbors of a query point with nonzero probability and (ii) estimating the probability of a point being the nearest neighbor of a query point, either exactly or within a specified additive error.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Agarwal, PK; Aronov, B; Har-Peled, S; Phillips, JM; Yi, K; Zhang, W
Published Date
- October 1, 2016
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 13 / 1
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1549-6333
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1549-6325
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1145/2955098
Citation Source
- Scopus