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A suitable measure for the similarity of shapes represented by parameterized curves or surfaces is the Fr\'echet distance. Whereas efficient algorithms are known for computing the Fr\'echet distance of polygonal curves, the same problem for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Helmut Alt , Maike Buchin

The Fr\'echet distance provides a natural and intuitive measure for the popular task of computing the similarity of two (polygonal) curves. While a simple algorithm computes it in near-quadratic time, a strongly subquadratic algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Karl Bringmann , Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser

The article analyzes similarity of closed polygonal curves with respect to the Frechet metric, which is stronger than the well-known Hausdorff metric and therefore is more appropriate in some applications. An algorithm is described that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-18 M. Schlesinger , E. Vodolazskiy , V. Yakovenko

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

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

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular similarity measure that is well-understood for polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$: near-quadratic time algorithms exist, and conditional lower bounds suggest that these results cannot be improved…

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

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular distance measure for curves which naturally lends itself to fundamental computational tasks, such as clustering, nearest-neighbor searching, and spherical range searching in the corresponding metric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Anne Driemel , Amer Krivošija

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

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 show by reduction from the Orthogonal Vectors problem that algorithms with strongly subquadratic running time cannot approximate the Fr\'echet distance between curves better than a factor $3$ unless SETH fails. We show that similar…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Kevin Buchin , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular distance measure between trajectories or curves in space, or between walks in graphs. We study computing the Fr\'echet distance between walks in the $d$-dimensional grid graphs, i.e. $\mathbb{Z}^d$ where…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Frederikke Uldahl , Eva Rotenberg

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 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

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

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

It is unlikely that the discrete Fr\'echet distance between two curves of length $n$ can be computed in strictly subquadratic time. We thus consider the setting where one of the curves, $P$, is known in advance. In particular, we wish to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Boris Aronov , Tsuri Farhana , Matthew J. Katz , Indu Ramesh

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

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

The Fr\'{e}chet distance is a popular distance measure between curves $P$ and $Q$. Conditional lower bounds prohibit $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximate Fr\'{e}chet distance computations in strongly subquadratic time, even when preprocessing…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg , Sampson Wong

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