Locally correct Frechet matchings

摘要

The Frechet distance is a metric to compare two curves, which is based on monotone matchings between these curves. We call a matching that results in the Frechet distance a Frechet matching. There are often many different Frechet matchings and not all of these capture the similarity between the curves well. We propose to restrict the set of Frechet matchings to "natural" matchings and to this end introduce locally correct Frechet matchings. We prove that at least one such matching exists for two polygonal curves and give an O(N(3)log N) algorithm to compute it, where N is the number of edges in both curves. We also present an O(N-2) algorithm to compute a locally correct discrete Frechet matching. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.