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Finding an exact maximum distance of two points in the given set is a fundamental computational problem which is solved in many applications. This paper presents a fast, simple to implement and robust algorithm for finding this maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Vaclav Skala , Zuzana Majdisova

Computing geodesics for Riemannian manifolds is a difficult task that often relies on numerical approximations. However, these approximations tend to be either numerically unstable, have slow convergence, or scale poorly with manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Frederik Möbius Rygaard , Søren Hauberg

In this paper, we present the geodesic-like algorithm for the computation of the shortest path between two objects on NURBS surfaces and periodic surfaces. This method can improve the distance problem not only on surfaces but in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-11-25 Wen-Haw Chen , Sheng-Gwo Chen

A common approach to compute distances on continuous surfaces is by considering a discretized polygonal mesh approximating the surface and estimating distances on the polygon. We show that exact geodesic distances restricted to the polygon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Saar Huberman , Amit Bracha , Ron Kimmel

Manifolds discovered by machine learning models provide a compact representation of the underlying data. Geodesics on these manifolds define locally length-minimising curves and provide a notion of distance, which are key for reduced-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Daniel Kelshaw , Luca Magri

This paper introduces a new mathematical formulation and numerical approach for the computation of distances and geodesics between immersed planar curves. Our approach combines the general simplifying transform for first-order elastic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yashil Sukurdeep , Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon

A complete treatment of the intersections of two geodesics on the surface of an ellipsoid of revolution is given. With a suitable metric for the distances between intersections, bounds are placed on their spacing. This leads to fast and…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Charles F. F. Karney

We describe a polynomial-time algorithm to compute a (tight) geodesic between two curves in the curve graph. As well as enabling us to compute the distance between a pair of curves, this has several applications to mapping classes. For…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Mark C. Bell , Richard C. H. Webb

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a dimensionality reduction tool used for information analysis, data visualization and manifold learning. Most MDS procedures embed data points in low-dimensional Euclidean (flat) domains, such that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Gil Shamai , Michael Zibulevsky , Ron Kimmel

All known algorithms for the Fr\'echet distance between curves proceed in two steps: first, they construct an efficient oracle for the decision version; second, they use this oracle to find the optimum from a finite set of critical values.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Rolf van Leusden , Wouter Meulemans , Wolfgang Mulzer

The Fr\'echet distance provides a natural and intuitive measure for the popular task of computing the similarity of two (polygonal) curves. While a simple algorithm computes it in near-quadratic time, a strongly subquadratic algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Karl Bringmann , Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser

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

Algorithms for the computation of geodesics on an ellipsoid of revolution are given. These provide accurate, robust, and fast solutions to the direct and inverse geodesic problems and they allow differential and integral properties of…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Charles F. F. Karney

We describe a new algorithm to compute the geometric intersection number between two curves, given as edge vectors on an ideal triangulation. Most importantly, this algorithm runs in polynomial time in the bit-size of the two edge vectors.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Mark C. Bell , Richard C. H. Webb

In this paper, we study the characterization of geodesics for a class of distances between probability measures introduced by Dolbeault, Nazaret and Savar e. We first prove the existence of a potential function and then give necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Guillaume Carlier , Bruno Nazaret

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

New algorithms are devised for finding the maxima of multidimensional point samples, one of the very first problems studied in computational geometry. The algorithms are very simple and easily coded and modified for practical needs. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-09 Wei-Mei Chen , Hsien-Kuei Hwang , Tsung-Hsi Tsai

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 estimate the distance in the curve graph of a surface S of finite type using Teichmueller geodesics and assuming to be able to detect curves of distance at least three.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-06-04 Ursula Hamenstaedt

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