Other links of interest

MUFIN (Multi-Feature Indexing Network). Represents a joint research effort towards a scalable and extensible similarity search system for many applications.

HnSRTree : the SR-tree library. The SR-tree is a multidimensional index structure designed for the acceleration of the nearest-neighbor search of high-dimensional points in the Euclidean space. The SR-tree is a disk-based index structure and applicable to large data sets, say, a database containing more than 10,000 points.

COREL, Polygons. This dataset contains image features extracted from a Corel image collection. Four sets of features are available based on the color histogram, color histogram layout, color moments, and co-occurence texture.

SAPIR EU project The CoPhIR (Content-based Photo Image Retrieval) Test-Collection has been developed to make significant tests on the scalability of the SAPIR project infrastructure (SAPIR: Search In Audio Visual Content Using Peer-to-peer IR) for similarity search.

Nearest Neighbors and Similarity Search, an amazingly complete page dedicated to software, literature, researchers, and events related to NN searching.