Folding Free-Space Diagrams: Computing the Fréchet Distance between 1-Dimensional Curves *

Kevin Buchin, Jinhee Chun, Maarten Löffler, Aleksandar Markovic, Wouter Meulemans, Yoshio Okamoto, Taichi Shiitada
unpublished
By folding the free-space diagram for efficient preprocessing, we show that the Fréchet distance between 1D curves can be computed in O(nk log n) time, assuming one curve has ply k.
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