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FRESH: Fr\'echet Similarity with Hashing

Computational Geometry 2019-06-06 v3 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

This paper studies the rr-range search problem for curves under the continuous Fr\'echet distance: given a dataset SS of nn polygonal curves and a threshold r>0r>0, construct a data structure that, for any query curve qq, efficiently returns all entries in SS with distance at most rr from qq. We propose FRESH, an approximate and randomized approach for rr-range search, that leverages on a locality sensitive hashing scheme for detecting candidate near neighbors of the query curve, and on a subsequent pruning step based on a cascade of curve simplifications. We experimentally compare \fresh to exact and deterministic solutions, and we show that high performance can be reached by suitably relaxing precision and recall.

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@article{arxiv.1809.02350,
  title  = {FRESH: Fr\'echet Similarity with Hashing},
  author = {Matteo Ceccarello and Anne Driemel and Francesco Silvestri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.02350},
  year   = {2019}
}