3. Feature matching
Nearest neighbor search too slow for large
database of 128-dimenional data
Approximate nearest neighbor search:
Best-bin-first [Beis et al. 97]: modification to k-d tree
algorithm
Use heap data structure to identify bins in order by
their distance from query point
Result: Can give speedup by factor of 1000
while finding nearest neighbor (of interest)
95% of the time