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Given an undirected, unweighted planar graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, we present a truly subquadratic size distance oracle for reporting exact shortest-path distances between any pair of vertices of $G$ in constant time. For any $\varepsilon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Viktor Fredslund-Hansen , Shay Mozes , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular similarity measure between curves. For some applications, it is desirable to match the curves under translation before computing the Fr\'echet distance between them. This variant is called the Translation…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Joachim Gudmundsson , André van Renssen , Zeinab Saeidi , Sampson Wong

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

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

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

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 consider the problem of computing the Fr\'echet distance between two curves for which the exact locations of the vertices are unknown. Each vertex may be placed in a given uncertainty region for that vertex, and the objective is to place…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Kevin Buchin , Maarten Löffler , Tim Ophelders , Aleksandr Popov , Jérôme Urhausen , Kevin Verbeek

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 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 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

A distance oracle is a compact representation of the shortest distance matrix of a graph. It can be queried to approximate shortest paths between any pair of vertices. Any distance oracle that returns paths of worst-case stretch (2k-1) must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-01-16 Rachit Agarwal , P. Brighten Godfrey , Sariel Har-Peled

An approximate distance oracle is a succinct data structure that provides fast answers to distance queries between any two nodes. In this paper we consider approximate distance oracles for general undirected graphs with non-negative edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Shiri Chechik

For a given a graph, a distance oracle is a data structure that answers distance queries between pairs of vertices. We introduce an $O(n^{5/3})$-space distance oracle which answers exact distance queries in $O(\log n)$ time for $n$-vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Søren Dahlgaard , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

We present new and improved data structures that answer exact node-to-node distance queries in planar graphs. Such data structures are also known as distance oracles. For any directed planar graph on n nodes with non-negative lengths we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-11 Shay Mozes , Christian Sommer

The discrete Fr\'echet distance is a useful similarity measure for comparing two sequences of points $P=(p_1,\ldots, p_m)$ and $Q=(q_1,\ldots,q_n)$. In many applications, the quality of the matching can be improved if we let $Q$ undergo…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Rinat Ben Avraham , Haim Kaplan , Micha Sharir

We study data structures for storing a set of polygonal curves in ${\rm R}^d$ such that, given a query curve, we can efficiently retrieve similar curves from the set, where similarity is measured using the discrete Fr\'echet distance or the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Anne Driemel , Francesco Silvestri

Given two simplicial complexes in R^d, and start and end vertices in each complex, we show how to compute curves (in each complex) between these vertices, such that the Fr\'echet distance between these curves is minimized. As a polygonal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Sariel Har-Peled , Benjamin Raichel

A (1 + eps)-approximate distance oracle for a graph is a data structure that supports approximate point-to-point shortest-path-distance queries. The most relevant measures for a distance-oracle construction are: space, query time, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-11 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Philip N. Klein , Christian Sommer

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

Distance oracles are data structures that provide fast (possibly approximate) answers to shortest-path and distance queries in graphs. The tradeoff between the space requirements and the query time of distance oracles is of particular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Christian Sommer