The document discusses a new technique called multi-view alignment hashing (MAH) for efficient image retrieval in large databases, utilizing non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) to handle high-dimensional and heterogeneous feature descriptors. The proposed method addresses limitations of existing single-view hashing methods by combining various visual features, improving both the representational capacity and classification accuracy of image searches. MAH achieves better performance and less computational complexity while preserving the joint probability distribution of image data.