Carleton University - School of Computer Science Honours Project
Winter 2018
Towards an Implementation of Fast Algorithms for Approximate Fréchet Matching Queries in Geometric Trees
Chris Ermel
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ABSTRACT
The purpose of this project is to implement a few of the data structures and algorithms produced in the paper Fast Algorithms for Approximate Fréchet Matching Queries in Geometric Trees by Michiel Smid and Joachim Gudmundsson. The project report discusses some of the concepts used and implementation challenges faced, as well as provides some empirical evidence hinting at the practical performance of the data structures. The primary result attained in Smid and Gudmundsson's paper is the following. Given a geometric tree T, we wish to preprocess it such that, given a polygonal query path P, we can efficiently determine whether or not T contains a path P' such that δF(P, P') ≤ 3(1 + ε)Δ, where Δ and ε are predetermined constants.