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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

Let $\tau$ and $\sigma$ be two polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for any fixed $d$. Suppose that $\tau$ and $\sigma$ have $n$ and $m$ vertices, respectively, and $m\le n$. While conditional lower bounds prevent approximating the Fr\'echet…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Siu-Wing Cheng , Haoqiang Huang , Shuo Zhang

Under which conditions and with which distortions can we preserve the pairwise-distances of low-complexity vectors, e.g., for structured sets such as the set of sparse vectors or the one of low-rank matrices, when these are mapped in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Laurent Jacques

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

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

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

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

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

The paper presents a discrete variation of the Frechet distance between closed curves, which can be seen as an approximation of the continuous measure. A rather straightforward approach to compute the discrete Frechet distance between two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Evgeniy Vodolazskiy

Fr\'echet means are a popular type of average for non-Euclidean datasets, defined as those points which minimise the average squared distance to a set of data points. We consider the behaviour of sample Fr\'echet means on normed spaces…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Roan Talbut , Andrew McCormack , Anthea Monod

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 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

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

Frechet's classical isometric embedding argument has evolved to become a major tool in the study of metric spaces. An important example of a Frechet embedding is Bourgain's embedding. The authors have recently shown that for every e>0 any…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-23 Yair Batal , Nathan Linial , Manor Mendel , Assaf Naor

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

We define and investigate the Fr\'{e}chet edit distance problem. Given two polygonal curves $\pi$ and $\sigma$ and a threshhold value $\delta>0$, we seek the minimum number of edits to $\sigma$ such that the Fr\'{e}chet distance between the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Emily Fox , Amir Nayyeri , Jonathan James Perry , Benjamin Raichel

Since its introduction to computational geometry by Alt and Godau in 1992, the Fr\'echet distance has been a mainstay of algorithmic research on curve similarity computations. The focus of the research has been on comparing polygonal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Jacobus Conradi , Anne Driemel , Benedikt Kolbe

We consider mappings satisfying an upper bound for the distortion of families of curves. We establish lower bounds for the distortion of distances under such mappings. As applications, we obtain theorems on the discreteness of the limit…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Evgeny Sevost'yanov , Denys Romash , Nataliya Ilkevych

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

We study the problem of computing the upper bound of the discrete Fr\'{e}chet distance for imprecise input, and prove that the problem is NP-hard. This solves an open problem posed in 2010 by Ahn \emph{et al}. If shortcuts are allowed, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Chenglin Fan , Binhai Zhu