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One approach to studying the Fr\'echet distance is to consider curves that satisfy realistic assumptions. By now, the most popular realistic assumption for curves is $c$-packedness. Existing algorithms for computing the Fr\'echet distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Joachim Gudmundsson , Tiancheng Mai , Sampson Wong

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

The Fr\'{e}chet distance is a well-studied similarity measure between curves that is widely used throughout computer science. Motivated by applications where curves stem from paths and walks on an underlying graph (such as a road network),…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Anne Driemel , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg

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

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

Map matching is a common task when analysing GPS tracks, such as vehicle trajectories. The goal is to match a recorded noisy polygonal curve to a path on the map, usually represented as a geometric graph. The Fr\'echet distance is a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Joachim Gudmundsson , Aleksandr Popov , Sampson Wong

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 its Fr\'echet distance from $P$ is less than a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Paul Accisano , Alper Üngör

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 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

The continuous Frechet distance between two polygonal curves is classically computed by exploring their free space diagram. Recently, Har-Peled, Raichel, and Robson [SoCG'25] proposed a radically different approach: instead of directly…

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

In this paper we focus on the map matching problem where the goal is to find a path through a planar graph such that the path through the vertices closely matches a given polygonal curve. The map matching problem is usually approached with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Tim Wylie , Binhai Zhu

Modern time series analysis requires the ability to handle datasets that are inherently high-dimensional; examples include applications in climatology, where measurements from numerous sensors must be taken into account, or inventory…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Ioannis Psarros , Dennis Rohde

The Frechet distance is often used to measure distances between paths, with applications in areas ranging from map matching to GPS trajectory analysis to handwriting recognition. More recently, the Frechet distance has been generalized to a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Erin Chambers , Brittany Fasy , Benjamin Holmgren , Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk

Given two polygonal curves in the plane, there are many ways to define a notion of similarity between them. One popular measure is the Fr\'echet distance. Since it was proposed by Alt and Godau in 1992, many variants and extensions have…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Wouter Meulemans , Wolfgang Mulzer

In this paper we study a wide range of variants for computing the (discrete and continuous) Fr\'echet distance between uncertain curves. We define an uncertain curve as a sequence of uncertainty regions, where each region is a disk, a line…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kevin Buchin , Chenglin Fan , Maarten Löffler , Aleksandr Popov , Benjamin Raichel , Marcel Roeloffzen

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

For many shape analysis problems in computer vision and scientific imaging (e.g., computational anatomy, morphological cytometry), the ability to align two closed curves in the plane is crucial. In this paper, we concentrate on rigidly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Günay Dogan , Javier Bernal , Charles Hagwood

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

We study a map matching problem, the task of finding in an embedded graph a path that has low distance to a given curve in R^2. The Fr\'echet distance is a common measure for this problem. Efficient methods exist to compute the best path…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Wouter Meulemans

For two closed curves on a plane (discrete version) and local criteria for similarity of points on the curves one gets a potential, which describes the similarity between curve points. This is the base for a global similarity measure of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Manfred Harringer