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The Fr\'echet distance is a popular measure of dissimilarity for polygonal curves. It is defined as a min-max formulation that considers all direction-preserving continuous bijections of the two curves. Because of its susceptibility to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Jacobus Conradi , Anne Driemel

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

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

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

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

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

Computing the Fr\'echet distance between two polygonal curves takes roughly quadratic time. In this paper, we show that for a special class of curves the Fr\'echet distance computations become easier. Let $P$ and $Q$ be two polygonal curves…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Joachim Gudmundsson , Majid Mirzanezhad , Ali Mohades , Carola Wenk

The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance is a popular similarity measure for polygonal curves (i.e., sequences of points). It finds many theoretical and practical applications, especially for temporal data, and is known to be a robust,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Karl Bringmann , Nick Fischer , Ivor van der Hoog , Evangelos Kipouridis , Tomasz Kociumaka , Eva Rotenberg

The Frechet distance is a well-studied and very popular measure of similarity of two curves. Many variants and extensions have been studied since Alt and Godau introduced this measure to computational geometry in 1991. Their original…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Karl Bringmann

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 study the $c$-approximate near neighbor problem under the continuous Fr\'echet distance: Given a set of $n$ polygonal curves with $m$ vertices, a radius $\delta > 0$, and a parameter $k \leq m$, we want to preprocess the curves into a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Karl Bringmann , Anne Driemel , André Nusser , Ioannis Psarros

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

The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance is a popular measure of similarity for a variety of sequence data. For comparing polygonal curves $\pi, \sigma$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, it provides a robust, outlier-insensitive alternative to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Karl Bringmann , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Marvin Künnemann , Dániel Marx , André Nusser

The similarity of two polygonal curves can be measured using the Fr\'echet distance. We introduce the notion of a more robust Fr\'echet distance, where one is allowed to shortcut between vertices of one of the curves. This is a natural…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Anne Driemel , Sariel Har-Peled

The Frechet distance is a metric to compare two curves, which is based on monotonous matchings between these curves. We call a matching that results in the Frechet distance a Frechet matching. There are often many different Frechet…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-06-28 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Wouter Meulemans , Bettina Speckmann

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

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

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

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

The Fr\'echet distance is a similarity measure between two curves $A$ and $B$: Informally, it is the minimum length of a leash required to connect a dog, constrained to be on $A$, and its owner, constrained to be on $B$, as they walk…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-04-25 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Rinat Ben Avraham , Haim Kaplan , Micha Sharir