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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

The fine-grained complexity of computing the Fr\'echet distance has been a topic of much recent work, starting with the quadratic SETH-based conditional lower bound by Bringmann from 2014. Subsequent work established largely the same…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Lotte Blank , Anne Driemel

Time-series clustering serves as a powerful data mining technique for time-series data in the absence of prior knowledge about clusters. A large amount of time-series data with large size has been acquired and used in various research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Tomoki Inoue , Koyo Kubota , Tsubasa Ikami , Yasuhiro Egami , Hiroki Nagai , Takahiro Kashikawa , Koichi Kimura , Yu Matsuda

The Fr\'echet distance is a commonly used distance measure for curves. Computing the Fr\'echet distance between two polygonal curves of $n$ vertices takes roughly quadratic time, and conditional lower bounds suggest that approximating to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Thijs van der Horst , Marc van Kreveld , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

We show that a variant of the continuous Frechet distance between polygonal curves can be computed using essentially the same algorithm used to solve the discrete version. The new variant is not necessarily monotone, but this shortcoming…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Sariel Har-Peled , Benjamin Raichel , Eliot W. Robson

We provide a general framework for getting expected linear time constant factor approximations (and in many cases FPTASs) to several well-known problems in Computational Geometry, such as $k$-center clustering and farthest nearest neighbor.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sariel Har-Peled , Banjamin Raichel

We discuss two versions of the Fr\'echet distance problem in weighted planar subdivisions. In the first one, the distance between two points is the weighted length of the line segment joining the points. In the second one, the distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-04-29 Yam Ki Cheung , Ovidiu Daescu

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Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Boris Aronov , Sariel Har-Peled , Christian Knauer , Yusu Wang , Carola Wenk

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular similarity measure between curves. For some applications, it is desirable to match the curves under translation before computing the Fr\'echet distance between them. This variant is called the Translation…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Joachim Gudmundsson , André van Renssen , Zeinab Saeidi , Sampson Wong

Given two simplicial complexes in R^d, and start and end vertices in each complex, we show how to compute curves (in each complex) between these vertices, such that the Fr\'echet distance between these curves is minimized. As a polygonal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Sariel Har-Peled , Benjamin Raichel

This paper considers the well-studied algorithmic regime of designing a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for a $k$-clustering problem that runs in time $f(k,\epsilon)poly(n)$ (sometimes called an efficient parameterized approximation…

Clustering plays a crucial role in computer science, facilitating data analysis and problem-solving across numerous fields. By partitioning large datasets into meaningful groups, clustering reveals hidden structures and relationships within…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Aryan Esmailpour , Stavros Sintos

There is a long history of research into time series clustering using distance-based partitional clustering. Many of the most popular algorithms adapt k-means (also known as Lloyd's algorithm) to exploit time dependencies in the data by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Christopher Holder , Anthony Bagnall , Jason Lines

We study the problem of clustering sequences of unlabeled point sets taken from a common metric space. Such scenarios arise naturally in applications where a system or process is observed in distinct time intervals, such as biological…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tamal K. Dey , Alfred Rossi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

We study data structures for storing a set of polygonal curves in ${\rm R}^d$ such that, given a query curve, we can efficiently retrieve similar curves from the set, where similarity is measured using the discrete Fr\'echet distance or the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Anne Driemel , Francesco Silvestri

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

Dynamic Time Warping is arguably the most popular similarity measure for time series, where we define a time series to be a one-dimensional polygonal curve. The drawback of Dynamic Time Warping is that it is sensitive to the sampling rate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Kevin Buchin , André Nusser , Sampson Wong

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

Consider the natural question of how to measure the similarity of curves in the plane by a quantity that is invariant under translations of the curves. Such a measure is justified whenever we aim to quantify the similarity of the curves'…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Karl Bringmann , Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser

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