@article {1654599, title = {{Discrete vector quantization for arbitrary distance function estimation}}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics}, volume = {28}, year = {1998}, pages = {496{\textendash}510}, doi = {10.1109/3477.704289}, author = {John Oommen and I. Kuban Altinel and Necati Aras} }