Background readings:
G. Shakhnarovich, P. Viola, and T. Darrell, "Fast pose estimation with parameter-sensitive hashing," ICCV 2003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2003.1238424
A. Frome, Y. Singer, F. Sha, and J. Malik, "Learning Globally-Consistent Local Distance Functions for Shape-Based Image Retrieval and Classification", ICCV 2007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2007.4408839
Contemporary readings:
P. Jain, B. Kulis, and K. Grauman, Fast Similarity Search for Learned Metrics, CVPR 2008/PAMI 2009, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2009.151
B. Kulis and T. Darrell, "Learning to Hash with Binary Reconstructive Embeddings", NIPS 2009, http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips22/NIPS2009_0971.pdf