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The classical measure of similarity between two polygonal chains in Euclidean space is the Fr\'echet distance, which corresponds to the coordinated motion of two mobile agents along the chains while minimizing their maximum distance. As…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Hugo A. Akitaya , Leonie Ryvkin , Csaba D. Tóth

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

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

We study the problem of sub-trajectory nearest-neighbor queries on polygonal curves under the continuous Fr\'echet distance. Given an $n$ vertex trajectory $P$ and an $m$ vertex query trajectory $Q$, we seek to report a vertex-aligned…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Joachim Gudmundsson , John Pfeifer , Martin P. Seybold

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular distance measure for curves. We study the problem of clustering time series under the Fr\'echet distance. In particular, we give $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithms for variations of the following…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Anne Driemel , Amer Krivošija , Christian Sohler

This paper studies the $r$-range search problem for curves under the continuous Fr\'echet distance: given a dataset $S$ of $n$ polygonal curves and a threshold $r>0$, construct a data structure that, for any query curve $q$, efficiently…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Matteo Ceccarello , Anne Driemel , Francesco Silvestri

A central part of geometric statistics is to compute the Fr\'echet mean. This is a well-known intrinsic mean on a Riemannian manifold that minimizes the sum of squared Riemannian distances from the mean point to all other data points. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-07 Frederik Möbius Rygaard , Søren Hauberg , Steen Markvorsen

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

Given two polygonal curves $P$ and $Q$ defined by $n$ and $m$ vertices with $m\leq n$, we show that the discrete Fr\'echet distance in 1D cannot be approximated within a factor of $2-\varepsilon$ in $\mathcal{O}((nm)^{1-\delta})$ time for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Lotte Blank

We describe a $O(\log n )$-approximation algorithm for computing the homotopic \Frechet distance between two polygonal curves that lie on the boundary of a triangulated topological disk. Prior to this work, algorithms were known only for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Sariel Har-Peled , Amir Nayyeri , Mohammad Salavatipour , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

We study approximate-near-neighbor data structures for time series under the continuous Fr\'echet distance. For an attainable approximation factor $c>1$ and a query radius $r$, an approximate-near-neighbor data structure can be used to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Anne Driemel , Ioannis Psarros

We present a scalable approach for range and $k$ nearest neighbor queries under computationally expensive metrics, like the continuous Fr\'echet distance on trajectory data. Based on clustering for metric indexes, we obtain a dynamic tree…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Joachim Gudmundsson , Michael Horton , John Pfeifer , Martin P. Seybold

We study the problem of constructing a data structure that can store a two-dimensional polygonal curve $P$, such that for any query segment $\overline{ab}$ one can efficiently compute the Fr\'{e}chet distance between $P$ and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Maike Buchin , Ivor van der Hoog , Tim Ophelders , Lena Schlipf , Rodrigo I. Silveira , Frank Staals

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

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

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

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

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

Approximate near-neighbors search (\textsc{ANNS}) is a long-studied problem in computational geometry. %that has received considerable attention by researchers in the community. In this paper, we revisit the problem and propose the first…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Majid Mirzanezhad

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