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We describe the first strongly subquadratic time algorithm with subexponential approximation ratio for approximately computing the Fr\'echet distance between two polygonal chains. Specifically, let $P$ and $Q$ be two polygonal chains with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Connor Colombe , Kyle Fox

In 2012 Driemel et al. \cite{DBLP:journals/dcg/DriemelHW12} introduced the concept of $c$-packed curves as a realistic input model. In the case when $c$ is a constant they gave a near linear time $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Joachim Gudmundsson , Yuan Sha , Sampson Wong

A pseudo-polynomial time $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm is presented for computing the integral and average Fr\'{e}chet distance between two given polygonal curves $T_1$ and $T_2$. In particular, the running time is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Anil Maheshwari , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack , Christian Scheffer

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular distance measure for curves. We study the problem of clustering time series under the Fr\'echet distance. In particular, we give $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithms for variations of the following…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Anne Driemel , Amer Krivošija , Christian Sohler

The article analyzes similarity of closed polygonal curves with respect to the Frechet metric, which is stronger than the well-known Hausdorff metric and therefore is more appropriate in some applications. An algorithm is described that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-18 M. Schlesinger , E. Vodolazskiy , V. Yakovenko

We study the problem of constructing a data structure that can store a two-dimensional polygonal curve $P$, such that for any query segment $\overline{ab}$ one can efficiently compute the Fr\'{e}chet distance between $P$ and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Maike Buchin , Ivor van der Hoog , Tim Ophelders , Lena Schlipf , Rodrigo I. Silveira , Frank Staals

In the first part of this thesis, we consider an instance of Frechet distance problem in which the speed of traversal along each segment of the curves is restricted to be within a specfied range. This setting is more realistic than the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-26 Kaveh Shahbaz

We study approximating the continuous Fr\'echet distance of two curves with complexity $n$ and $m$, under the assumption that only one of the two curves is $c$-packed. Driemel, Har{-}Peled and Wenk DCG'12 studied Fr\'echet distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Thijs van der Horst , Tim Ophelders

Computing the Fr\'{e}chet distance for surfaces is a surprisingly hard problem and the only known algorithm is limited to computing it between flat surfaces. We adapt this algorithm to create one for computing the Fr\'{e}chet distance for a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Atlas F. Cook , Anne Driemel , Sariel Har-Peled , Jessica Sherette , Carola Wenk

We show by reduction from the Orthogonal Vectors problem that algorithms with strongly subquadratic running time cannot approximate the Fr\'echet distance between curves better than a factor $3$ unless SETH fails. We show that similar…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Kevin Buchin , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

Let $P$ be a polygon with $k$ vertices. Let $R$ and $B$ be two simple, interior disjoint curves on the boundary of $P$, with $n$ and $m$ vertices. We show how to compute the Fr\'echet distance between $R$ and $B$ using the geodesic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Thijs van der Horst , Marc van Kreveld , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

We consider the problem of computing the Fr\'echet distance between two curves for which the exact locations of the vertices are unknown. Each vertex may be placed in a given uncertainty region for that vertex, and the objective is to place…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Kevin Buchin , Maarten Löffler , Tim Ophelders , Aleksandr Popov , Jérôme Urhausen , Kevin Verbeek

The Fr\'echet distance is a distance measure between trajectories in $\Bbb{R}^d$ or walks in a graph $G$. Given constant-time shortest path queries, the Discrete Fr\'echet distance $D_G(P, Q)$ between two walks $P$ and $Q$ can be computed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ivor van der Hoog , Thijs van der Horst , Eva Rotenberg , Lasse Wulf

The Frechet distance is a well-studied and very popular measure of similarity of two curves. Many variants and extensions have been studied since Alt and Godau introduced this measure to computational geometry in 1991. Their original…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Karl Bringmann

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular distance measure for curves which naturally lends itself to fundamental computational tasks, such as clustering, nearest-neighbor searching, and spherical range searching in the corresponding metric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Anne Driemel , Amer Krivošija

The article analyzes similarity of closed polygonal curves in Frechet metric, which is stronger than the well-known Hausdorff metric and therefore is more appropriate in some applications. An algorithm that determines whether the Frechet…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-09-17 M. I. Schlesinger , E. V. Vodolazskiy , V. M. Yakovenko

The discrete Fr\'echet distance is a popular measure for comparing polygonal curves. An important variant is the discrete Fr\'echet distance under translation, which enables detection of similar movement patterns in different spatial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Karl Bringmann , Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser

The classical measure of similarity between two polygonal chains in Euclidean space is the Fr\'echet distance, which corresponds to the coordinated motion of two mobile agents along the chains while minimizing their maximum distance. As…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Hugo A. Akitaya , Leonie Ryvkin , Csaba D. Tóth

Given two polygonal curves $P$ and $Q$ defined by $n$ and $m$ vertices with $m\leq n$, we show that the discrete Fr\'echet distance in 1D cannot be approximated within a factor of $2-\varepsilon$ in $\mathcal{O}((nm)^{1-\delta})$ time for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Lotte Blank

The discrete Fr\'echet distance is a useful similarity measure for comparing two sequences of points $P=(p_1,\ldots, p_m)$ and $Q=(q_1,\ldots,q_n)$. In many applications, the quality of the matching can be improved if we let $Q$ undergo…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Rinat Ben Avraham , Haim Kaplan , Micha Sharir