Fréchet distance for curves, revisited

  • Authors:
  • Boris Aronov;Sariel Har-Peled;Christian Knauer;Yusu Wang;Carola Wenk

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Comp. and Info. Sci., Polytechnic Univ., Brooklyn, NY;Dept. of Comp. Sci., University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;Freie Universität Berlin, Inst. of Comp. Sci., Berlin, Germany;Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Engineering, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH;Dept. of Comp. Sci., Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

  • Venue:
  • ESA'06 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Annual European Symposium - Volume 14
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We revisit the problem of computing the Fréchet distance between polygonal curves, focusing on the discrete Fréchet distance, where only distance between vertices is considered. We develop efficient approximation algorithms for two natural classes of curves: κ-bounded curves and backbone curves, the latter of which are widely used to model molecular structures. We also propose a pseudo-output-sensitive algorithm for computing the discrete Fréchet distance exactly. The complexity of the algorithm is a function of the complexity of the free-space boundary, which is quadratic in the worst case, but tends to be lower in practice.