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SIRET (SImilarity RETrieval) research group (SRG) was founded in 2006 at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. SRG deals with database methods for efficient and effective similarity search in databases of complex unstructured objects. In particular, SRG is interested in three areas - general methods of indexing similarity (metric and nonmetric spaces), biological applications of the similarity search, and indexing image databases for content-based retrieval.

Events

27.11.2012

RNDr. Jakub Lokoč Ph.D. has presented an invited talk about similarity search problems in huge multimedia collections at the security seminar BIG DATA, organized by the Police Academy of the Czech Republic in Prague, 27.11.2012. More information about the seminar available here (CZ) - stránkách akce.

Presentation (pptx) - Internet-scale MM retrieval.

19.09.2012

Přednášky:

  • David Hoksza: Bioinformatika a cheminformatika na MFF
12.04.2011

Tutorial at ICDE 2011.

29.08.2009

Organization of SISAP 2009 conference.

Projects

Bioinformatics & Cheminformatics

  • Molpher - Software tool for exploration of the chemical space
  • P3S - Protein structure similarity search
  • SETTER - RNA structure similarity search
  • Simtandem - Protein sequence identification
  • ViFrame - Chemical space visualization framework

General indexing

  • PGRTree - Plugin for Indexing Multidimensional Data in PostgreSQL Using R-tree

Multimedia

  • SIR - Smart image retrieval

Grants

Ongoing grant projects

  • GAUK 154613 Efficient Molecular Representation (2013 - 2015)
  • GAUK 910913 Real-time Exploration Queries in Multimedia Databases (2013 - 2015)
  • GAUK 567312 Algorithmic exploration of axiom spaces for efficient similarity search at large scale (2012 - 2015)
  • GAČR P202/12/P297 Synergistic Modeling of Adaptive Similarities for Multimedia Retrieval (2012 - 2014)
  • GAČR P202/11/0968 Large-scale Nonmetric Similarity Search in Complex Domains (2011 - 2014)

Past grant projects

  • FEBS Short-Term Fellowships Similarity Retrieval in Protein Structure Databases (2012 - 2012)
  • FEBS Short-Term Fellowships Fast Similarity Retrieval in Mass Spectra Databases (2012 - 2012)
  • GAUK 430711 Application of Metric and Non-metric Indexing Methods in Computational Proteomics (2011 - 2012)
  • GAČR 201/09/0683 Similarity Searching in Very Large Multimedia Databases (2009 - 2011)
  • GAUK 18208 Distributed and parallel metric indexing in multimedia databases (2008 - 2009)
  • GAUK 57907 Similarity search in biological databases (2007 - 2008)
  • GAČR 201/05/P036 Efficient metric search in large multimedia databases (2005 - 2007)