- July 2023: Paper Text-to-Motion Retrieval: Towards Joint Understanding of Human Motion Data and Natural Language has received “Best Short Paper Award Honorable Mention” at the 46th SIGIR conference (paper selected among the three best short papers out of more than 150 accepted ones; from more than 600 submissions).
- June 2023: Iris Kico has successfully defended her PhD thesis.
- April 2023: Paper Text-to-Motion Retrieval: Towards Joint Understanding of Human Motion Data and Natural Language has been accepted to the 46th SIGIR conference (mainly based on joint collaboration of Nicola Messina and Jan Sedmidubsky).
- April 2023: Nicola Messina (ISTI-CNR) as a visiting researcher at the DISA lab.
- Februrary 2022: Matej Antol has successfully defended his PhD thesis.
- September 2021: Best student paper award at SISAP 2021 for Miriama Jánošová and David Procházka!
- September 2021: There were three conference papers accepted for SISAP 2021 conference (Core B): Data-driven Learned Metric Index: an Unsupervised Approach, by Terézia Slanináková, Matej Antol, Jaroslav Oľha and Vlastislav Dohnal, Organizing Similarity Spaces using Metric Hulls, by Miriama JánoÅ¡ová, David Procházka, and Vlastislav Dohnal, and Similarity Search for an Extreme Application: Experience & Implementation by Vladimir Mic, Tomáš RaÄek, AleÅ¡ KÅ™enek and Pavel Zezula.
- June 2021: The paper Metric hull as similarity-aware operator for representing unstructured data, by Matej Antol, Miriama Jánošová and Vlastislav Dohnal, published in Pattern Recognition Letters journal, Elsevier.
- June 2021: Pavel Zezula has a keynote at the 27th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling: Similarity Management of Data – the DISA Experience.
- May 2021: The SISAP conference has been awarded CORE rank B. SISAP – International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications – is an annual forum for researchers and application developers in the area of similarity data management. Since its foundation in 2008, DISA members have participated in the organization of the SISAP.
- April 2021: The journal paper Content-Based Management of Human Motion Data: Survey and Challenges, by Jan Sedmidubsky, Petr Elias, Petra Budikova and Pavel Zezula, published in IEEE Access.
- April 2021: The journal paper Learned metric index – proposition of learned indexing for unstructured data, by Matej Antol, Jaroslav Oĺha, Terézia Slanináková and Vlastislav Dohnal, published in Elsevier Information Systems.
- January 2021: A new book called Intelligent Analytics With Advanced Multi-Industry Applications will be published, including a chapter On the Similarity Search with Hamming Space Sketches written by VladimÃr MÃÄ and Pavel Zezula.
- December 2020: The paper Towards Scalable Retrieval of Human Motion Episodes (by Petra Budikova, Jan Sedmidubsky, Jan Horvath and Pavel Zezula) has been presented at the ISM 2020 conference.
- October 2020: The paper On the Application of Convex Transforms to Metric Search (by Richard Connor, Alan Dearle, VladimÃr MÃÄ and Pavel Zezula) has been published in the Pattern Recognition Letters journal.
- September 2020: The papers Accelerating Metric Filtering by Improving Bounds on Estimated Distances (by VladimÃr MÃÄ and Pavel Zezula) and Pivot Selection for Narrow Sketches by Optimization Algorithms (by Naoya Higuchi, Yasunobu Imamura, VladimÃr MÃÄ, Takeshi Shinohara, Kouichi Hirata a Tetsuji Kuboyama) have been presented at the SISAP 2020 conference. The paper Accelerating Metric Filtering by Improving Bounds on Estimated Distances has obtained the Best Paper Award!
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