Complexity and Algorithms for the Discrete Fréchet Distance Upper Bound with Imprecise Input

نویسندگان

  • Chenglin Fan
  • Binhai Zhu
چکیده

We study the problem of computing the upper bound of the discrete Fréchet distance for imprecise input, and prove that the problem is NP-hard. This solves an open problem posed in 2010 by Ahn et al. If shortcuts are allowed, we show that the upper bound of the discrete Fréchet distance with shortcuts for imprecise input can be computed in polynomial time and we present several efficient algorithms.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1509.02576  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015