Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Identifier
1224
Date
2014
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Major
Computer Science
Committee Chair
King-Ip Lin
Committee Member
Dipankar Dasgupta
Committee Member
Timothy Hnat
Committee Member
Vasile Rus
Abstract
Searching high dimensional space has been a challenge and an area of intense research for many years. The dimensionality curse has rendered most existing index methods all but useless causing people to research other techniques. In my dissertation I will try to resurrect one of the best known index structures, R-Tree, which most have given up on as a viable method of answering high dimensional queries. I have pointed out the various advantages of R-Tree as a method for answering approximate nearest neighbor queries, and the advantages of locality sensitive hashing and locality sensitive B-Tree, which are the most successful methods today. I started by looking at improving the maintenance of R-Tree by the use of bulk loading and insertion. I proposed and implemented a new method that bulk loads the index which was an improvement of standard method. I then turned my attention to nearest neighbor queries, which is a much more challenging problem especially in high dimensional space. Initially I developed a set of heuristics, easily implemented in R-Tree, which improved the efficiency of high dimensional approximate nearest neighbor queries. To further refine my method I took another approach, by developing a new model, known as R-Forest, which takes advantage of space partitioning while still using R-Tree as its index structure. With this new approach I was able to implement new heuristics and can show that R-Forest, comprised of a set of R-Trees, is a viable solution tohigh dimensional approximate nearest neighbor queries when compared to established methods.
Library Comment
Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to the local University of Memphis Electronic Theses & dissertation (ETD) Repository.
Recommended Citation
Nolen, Michael Charles, "R-Forest for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Queries in High Dimensional Space" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1029.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/1029
Comments
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