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We present simple and practical $(1+\eps)$-approximation algorithm for the Frechet distance between curves. To analyze this algorithm we introduce a new realistic family of curves, $c$-packed curves, that is closed under simplification. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Anne Driemel , Sariel Har-Peled , Carola Wenk

Let $m$ and $n$ be the numbers of vertices of two polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for any fixed $d$ such that $m \leq n$. Since it was known in 1995 how to compute the Fr\'{e}chet distance of these two curves in $O(mn\log (mn))$ time, it…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Siu-Wing Cheng , Haoqiang Huang

We study the shortcut Fr\'{e}chet distance, a natural variant of the Fr\'{e}chet distance, that allows us to take shortcuts from and to any point along one of the curves. The classic Fr\'echet distance is a bottle-neck distance measure and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-12-05 Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Bettina Speckmann

We present an algorithm for computing $\epsilon$-coresets for $(k, \ell)$-median clustering of polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$ under the Fr\'echet distance. This type of clustering is an adaption of Euclidean $k$-median clustering: we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Maike Buchin , Dennis Rohde

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular metric for curves; however, its bottleneck character is a disadvantage in many applications. Here we introduce two variants of the Fr\'echet distance to cope with this problem and expand the work on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Maike Buchin , Lukas Plätz

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 Fr\'echet distance is a computational mainstay for comparing polygonal curves. The Fr\'echet distance under translation, which is a translation invariant version, considers the similarity of two curves independent of their location in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Lotte Blank , Jacobus Conradi , Anne Driemel , Benedikt Kolbe , André Nusser , Marena Richter

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular distance measure between trajectories or curves in space, or between walks in graphs. We study computing the Fr\'echet distance between walks in the $d$-dimensional grid graphs, i.e. $\mathbb{Z}^d$ where…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Frederikke Uldahl , Eva Rotenberg

In 2015, Driemel, Krivo\v{s}ija and Sohler introduced the $(k,\ell)$-median problem for clustering polygonal curves under the Fr\'echet distance. Given a set of input curves, the problem asks to find $k$ median curves of at most $\ell$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Dennis Rohde

The discrete Fr{\'e}chet distance is a measure of similarity between point sequences which permits to abstract differences of resolution between the two curves, approximating the original Fr{\'e}chet distance between curves. Such distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jérémy Barbay

We propose sublinear algorithms for probabilistic testing of the discrete and continuous Fr\'echet distance - a standard similarity measure for curves. We assume the algorithm is given access to the input curves via a query oracle: a query…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Peyman Afshani , Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Marena Richter , Sampson Wong

The Fr\'echet distance is a well-studied and very popular measure of similarity of two curves. The best known algorithms have quadratic time complexity, which has recently been shown to be optimal assuming the Strong Exponential Time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Karl Bringmann , Marvin Künnemann

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

We study the complexity of clustering curves under $k$-median and $k$-center objectives in the metric space of the Fr\'echet distance and related distance measures. Building upon recent hardness results for the minimum-enclosing-ball…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Kevin Buchin , Anne Driemel , Martijn Struijs

We study several polygonal curve problems under the Fr\'{e}chet distance via algebraic geometric methods. Let $\mathbb{X}_m^d$ and $\mathbb{X}_k^d$ be the spaces of all polygonal curves of $m$ and $k$ vertices in $\mathbb{R}^d$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Siu-Wing Cheng , Haoqiang Huang

The \emph{Fr\'echet distance} is a well studied similarity measures between curves. The \emph{discrete Fr\'echet distance} is an analogous similarity measure, defined for a sequence $A$ of $m$ points and a sequence $B$ of $n$ points, where…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Rinat Ben Avraham , Omrit Filtser , Haim Kaplan , Matthew J. Katz , Micha Sharir

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

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

Let $P$ be a polygonal curve in $\mathbb{R}^d$ of length $n$, and $S$ be a point-set of size $k$. The Curve/Point Set Matching problem consists of finding a polygonal curve $Q$ on $S$ such that the Fr\'echet distance from $P$ is less than a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Paul Accisano , Alper Üngör

We study the problem of computing the Fr\'echet distance between two polygonal curves under transformations. First, we consider translations in the Euclidean plane. Given two curves $\pi$ and $\sigma$ of total complexity $n$ and a threshold…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Zijin Huang , André Nusser , Sampson Wong