Finding a Curve in a Point Set
arXiv:1405.0762
Abstract
Let be a polygonal curve in of length , and be a point set of size . The Curve/Point Set Matching problem consists of finding a polygonal curve on such that its Fréchet distance from is less than a given . In this paper, we consider this problem with the added freedom to transform the input curve by translating it, rotating it, or applying an arbitrary affine transform. We present exact and approximation algorithms for several variations of this problem.