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The discrete Fr\'echet distance is a popular measure for comparing polygonal curves. An important variant is the discrete Fr\'echet distance under translation, which enables detection of similar movement patterns in different spatial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Karl Bringmann , Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser

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

The Fr\'echet distance is a computational mainstay for comparing polygonal curves. The Fr\'echet distance under translation, which is a translation invariant version, considers the similarity of two curves independent of their location in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Lotte Blank , Jacobus Conradi , Anne Driemel , Benedikt Kolbe , André Nusser , Marena Richter

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 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\'echet distance is a commonly used similarity measure between curves. It is known how to compute the continuous Fr\'echet distance between two polylines with $m$ and $n$ vertices in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in $O(mn (\log \log n)^2)$ time;…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Thijs van der Horst , Marc van Kreveld , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

We devise a data structure that can answer shortest path queries for two query points in a polygonal domain $P$ on $n$ vertices. For any $\varepsilon > 0$, the space complexity of the data structure is $O(n^{10+\varepsilon })$ and queries…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Sarita de Berg , Tillmann Miltzow , Frank Staals

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

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\'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 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

We present efficient data structures for approximate nearest neighbor searching and approximate 2-point shortest path queries in a two-dimensional polygonal domain $P$ with $n$ vertices. Our goal is to store a dynamic set of $m$ point sites…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Joost van der Laan , Frank Staals , Lorenzo Theunissen

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 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

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

Let $P$ be a polygon with $k$ vertices. Let $R$ and $B$ be two simple, interior disjoint curves on the boundary of $P$, with $n$ and $m$ vertices. We show how to compute the Fr\'echet distance between $R$ and $B$ using the geodesic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Thijs van der Horst , Marc van Kreveld , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

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

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

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