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We study the problem of computing Chamfer distance in the fully dynamic setting, where two set of points $A, B \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$, each of size up to $n$, dynamically evolve through point insertions or deletions and the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Gramoz Goranci , Shaofeng Jiang , Peter Kiss , Eva Szilagyi , Qiaoyuan Yang

Advancements in sensors, algorithms, and compute hardware have made 3D perception feasible in real time. Current methods to compare and evaluate the quality of a 3D model, such as Chamfer, Hausdorff, and Earth-Mover's distance, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Yash Turkar , Pranay Meshram , Christo Aluckal , Charuvahan Adhivarahan , Karthik Dantu

The Earth movers distance (EMD) is a measure of distance between probability distributions which is at the heart of mass transportation theory. Recent research has shown that the EMD plays a crucial role in studying the potential impact of…

Computation · Statistics 2013-10-15 Kyle Treleaven , Emilio Frazzoli

Qualifying the discrepancy between 3D geometric models, which could be represented with either point clouds or triangle meshes, is a pivotal issue with board applications. Existing methods mainly focus on directly establishing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Siyu Ren , Junhui Hou , Xiaodong Chen , Hongkai Xiong , Wenping Wang

Learning an effective representation of 3D point clouds requires a good metric to measure the discrepancy between two 3D point sets, which is non-trivial due to their irregularity. Most of the previous works resort to using the Chamfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Trung Nguyen , Quang-Hieu Pham , Tam Le , Tung Pham , Nhat Ho , Binh-Son Hua

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for manifold learning that combines the Earthmover's distance (EMD) with the diffusion maps method for dimensionality reduction. We demonstrate the potential benefits of this approach for learning…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-24 Nathan Zelesko , Amit Moscovich , Joe Kileel , Amit Singer

Given two sets of points A and B, $|A| = m$, $|B| = n$, the Chamfer distance from $A$ to $B$ is defined as $\operatorname{CD}(A,B) = \sum_{a\in A} \min_{b\in B} d(a,b)$, where $d$ is a distance metric. Chamfer distance is a popular measure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gil Halevi , Daniel Zhang , Jason Zhang

This paper presents a novel theoretical measure, $\mu^{\text{EMD}}$, based on the Earth Mover's Distance, for quantifying the density shift caused by electronic excitations in molecules. As input, the EMD metric uses only the discretized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Zhe Wang , Jiashu Liang , Martin Head-Gordon

In order to help physicists to expand their knowledge of the climate in the Lesser Antilles, we aim to identify the spatio-temporal configurations using clustering analysis on wind speed and cumulative rainfall datasets. But we show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Emmanuel Biabiany , Vincent Page , Didier Bernard , Hélène Paugam-Moisy

Point-cloud data collected in real-world applications are often incomplete. Data is typically missing due to objects being observed from partial viewpoints, which only capture a specific perspective or angle. Additionally, data can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yoni Kasten , Ohad Rahamim , Gal Chechik

Compressive sensing (CS) has attracted significant attention in parameter estimation tasks, where parametric dictionaries (PDs) collect signal observations for a sampling of the parameter space and yield sparse representations for signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Dian Mo , Marco F. Duarte

The Earth Mover Distance (EMD) between two sets of points $A, B \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ with $|A| = |B|$ is the minimum total Euclidean distance of any perfect matching between $A$ and $B$. One of its generalizations is asymmetric EMD,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Dhruv Rohatgi

We propose Concavity-induced Distance (CID) as a novel way to measure the dissimilarity between a pair of points in an unoriented point cloud. CID indicates the likelihood of two points or two sets of points belonging to different convex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ruoyu Wang , Yanfei Xue , Bharath Surianarayanan , Dong Tian , Chen Feng

Quantifying the dissimilarity between two unstructured 3D point clouds is a challenging task, with existing metrics often relying on measuring the distance between corresponding points that can be either inefficient or ineffective. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Siyu Ren , Junhui Hou

How can we tell complex point clouds with different small scale characteristics apart, while disregarding global features? Can we find a suitable transformation of such data in a way that allows to discriminate between differences in this…

The Earth mover's distance (EMD) is a useful metric for image recognition and classification, but its usual implementations are not differentiable or too slow to be used as a loss function for training other algorithms via gradient descent.…

In this work, we develop methods for few-shot image classification from a new perspective of optimal matching between image regions. We employ the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) as a metric to compute a structural distance between dense image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Chi Zhang , Yujun Cai , Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen

Point cloud completion seeks to recover geometrically consistent shapes from partial or sparse 3D observations. Although recent methods have achieved reasonable global shape reconstruction, they often rely on Euclidean proximity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jianan Sun , Dongzhihan Wang , Mingyu Fan

Popular clustering algorithms based on usual distance functions (e.g., Euclidean distance) often suffer in high dimension, low sample size (HDLSS) situations, where concentration of pairwise distances has adverse effects on their…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-03 Soham Sarkar , Anil K. Ghosh

Existing deep embedding methods in vision tasks are capable of learning a compact Euclidean space from images, where Euclidean distances correspond to a similarity metric. To make learning more effective and efficient, hard sample mining is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Chen Huang , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang