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The Fr\'echet distance is a distance measure between trajectories in $\Bbb{R}^d$ or walks in a graph $G$. Given constant-time shortest path queries, the Discrete Fr\'echet distance $D_G(P, Q)$ between two walks $P$ and $Q$ can be computed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ivor van der Hoog , Thijs van der Horst , Eva Rotenberg , Lasse Wulf

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 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 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

One approach to studying the Fr\'echet distance is to consider curves that satisfy realistic assumptions. By now, the most popular realistic assumption for curves is $c$-packedness. Existing algorithms for computing the Fr\'echet distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Joachim Gudmundsson , Tiancheng Mai , Sampson Wong

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

Given any two vertices u, v of a random geometric graph, denote by d_E(u,v) their Euclidean distance and by d_G(u,v) their graph distance. The problem of finding upper bounds on d_G(u,v) in terms of d_E(u,v) has received a lot of attention…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Josep Díaz , Dieter Mitsche , Guillem Perarnau , Xavier Pérez-Giménez

This paper describes an implementation of fast near-neighbours queries (also known as range searching) with respect to the Fr\'echet distance. The algorithm is designed to be efficient on practical data such as GPS trajectories. Our…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Julian Baldus , Karl Bringmann

The free space diagram is a popular tool to compute the well-known Fr\'echet distance. As the Fr\'echet distance is used in many different fields, many variants have been established to cover the specific needs of these applications. Often,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Hugo A. Akitaya , Maike Buchin , Majid Mirzanezhad , Leonie Ryvkin , Carola Wenk

The closest pair problem is a fundamental problem of computational geometry: given a set of $n$ points in a $d$-dimensional space, find a pair with the smallest distance. A classical algorithm taught in introductory courses solves this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Scott Aaronson , Nai-Hui Chia , Han-Hsuan Lin , Chunhao Wang , Ruizhe Zhang

We study the $k$-median clustering problem for high-dimensional polygonal curves with finite but unbounded number of vertices. We tackle the computational issue that arises from the high number of dimensions by defining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Stefan Meintrup , Alexander Munteanu , Dennis Rohde

We study metric data structures for curves in doubling spaces, such as trajectories of moving objects in Euclidean $\mathbb{R}^d$, where the distance between two curves is measured using the discrete Fr\'echet distance. We design data…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Anne Driemel , Ioannis Psarros , Melanie Schmidt

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

In 2012 Driemel et al. \cite{DBLP:journals/dcg/DriemelHW12} introduced the concept of $c$-packed curves as a realistic input model. In the case when $c$ is a constant they gave a near linear time $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Joachim Gudmundsson , Yuan Sha , Sampson Wong

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

The problem of determining the configuration of points from partial distance information, known as the Euclidean Distance Geometry (EDG) problem, is fundamental to many tasks in the applied sciences. In this paper, we propose two algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Chandler Smith , HanQin Cai , Abiy Tasissa

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

Simplifying polygonal curves at different levels of detail is an important problem with many applications. Existing geometric optimization algorithms are only capable of minimizing the complexity of a simplified curve for a single level of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Kevin Buchin , Maximilian Konzack , Wim Reddingius

We introduce the discrete Fr\'echet gap and its variants as an alternative measure of similarity between polygonal curves. We believe that for some applications the new measure (and its variants) may better reflect our intuitive notion of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Omrit Filtser , Matthew J. Katz

In 2015, Driemel, Krivo\v{s}ija and Sohler introduced the $(k,\ell)$-median problem for clustering polygonal curves under the Fr\'echet distance. Given a set of input curves, the problem asks to find $k$ median curves of at most $\ell$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Dennis Rohde