Flann is both an English
surname and an
Irish masculine given name, but has also been used as a feminine given name. It might refer to:
* Flann Fína mac Ossu, another name for King
Aldfrith of Northumbria
Aldfrith (Early Modern Irish: ''Flann Fína mac Ossu''; Latin: ''Aldfrid'', ''Aldfridus''; died 14 December 704 or 705) was king of Northumbria from 685 until his death. He is described by early writers such as Bede, Alcuin and Stephen of Ripon ...
(died 704 or 705)
*
Flann mac Lonáin (died 896), Irish poet
*
Flann Sinna
Flann Sinna ( lit. ''Flann of the Shannon''; Irish: ''Flann na Sionainne''; 84725 May 916), also known as Flann mac Máel Sechnaill, was the son of Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid of Clann Cholmáin, a branch of the Southern Uí Néill. He ...
(died 916), also called Flann mac Maíl Sechnaill, High King of Ireland
*
Flann Mainistrech (died 1056), Irish scholar
* Flann O'Brien, a pen name used by Irish writer
Brian O'Nolan
Brian O'Nolan ( ga, Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966), better known by his pen name Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth ce ...
(1911–1966)
FLANN, an acronym for
Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors, is a
C++ library
A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vi ...
for approximate
nearest neighbor search
Nearest neighbor search (NNS), as a form of proximity search, is the optimization problem of finding the point in a given set that is closest (or most similar) to a given point. Closeness is typically expressed in terms of a dissimilarity function ...
in
high-dimensional spaces.
[Arul Suju, Hancy Jose]
FLANN: Fast approximate nearest neighbour search algorithm for elucidating human-wildlife conflicts in forest areas
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