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Approximate congruence in nearly linear time

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Computer Science
dc.contributor Indyk, Piotr
dc.creator Indyk, Piotr
dc.creator Venkatasubramanian, Suresh
dc.date 2014-05-15T17:33:22Z
dc.date 2014-05-15T17:33:22Z
dc.date 2003-02
dc.date 2001-11
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:09:05Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:09:05Z
dc.identifier 09257721
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87002
dc.identifier Indyk, Piotr, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian. “Approximate Congruence in Nearly Linear Time.” Computational Geometry 24, no. 2 (February 2003): 115–128. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7983-9524
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278942
dc.description The problem of geometric point set matching has been studied extensively in the domain of computational geometry, and has many applications in areas such as computer vision, computational chemistry, and pattern recognition. One of the commonly used metrics is the bottleneck distance, which for two point sets P and Q is the minimum over all one-to-one mappings f:P→Q of max[subscript p∈Pd(p,f(p))], where d is the Euclidean distance. Much effort has gone into developing efficient algorithms for minimising the bottleneck distance between two point sets under groups of transformations. However, the algorithms that have thus far been developed suffer from running times that are large polynomials in the size of the input, even for approximate formulations of the problem. In this paper we define a point set similarity measure that includes both the bottleneck distance and the Hausdorff distance as special cases. This measure relaxes the condition that the mapping must be one-to-one, but guarantees that only a few points are mapped to any point. Using a novel application of Hall's Theorem to reduce the geometric matching problem to a combinatorial matching problem, we present near-linear time approximation schemes for minimising this distance between two point sets in the plane under isometries; we note here that the best known algorithms for congruence under the bottleneck measure run in time [~ over O](n[superscript 2.5]). We also obtain a combinatorial bound on the metric entropy of certain families of geometric objects. This result yields improved algorithms for approximate congruence, and may be of independent interest.
dc.description National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Award CCR-9357849)
dc.description IBM Research
dc.description Schlumberger Foundation
dc.description Shell Foundation
dc.description Xerox Corporation
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0925-7721(02)00095-0
dc.relation Computational Geometry
dc.rights Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.
dc.source Elsevier Open Archive
dc.title Approximate congruence in nearly linear time
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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