,
Günter Rote
,
Micha Sharir,
Allen Xiao
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
Our goal is to compare two planar point sets by finding subsets of a given size such that a minimum-weight matching between them has the smallest weight. This can be done by a translation of one set that minimizes the weight of the matching. We give efficient algorithms (a) for finding approximately optimal matchings, when the cost of a matching is the L_p-norm of the tuple of the Euclidean distances between the pairs of matched points, for any p in [1,infty], and (b) for constructing small-size approximate minimization (or matching) diagrams: partitions of the translation space into regions, together with an approximate optimal matching for each region.
@InProceedings{agarwal_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.26,
author = {Agarwal, Pankaj K. and Kaplan, Haim and Kipper, Geva and Mulzer, Wolfgang and Rote, G\"{u}nter and Sharir, Micha and Xiao, Allen},
title = {{Approximate Minimum-Weight Matching with Outliers Under Translation}},
booktitle = {29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018)},
pages = {26:1--26:13},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-094-1},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2018},
volume = {123},
editor = {Hsu, Wen-Lian and Lee, Der-Tsai and Liao, Chung-Shou},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.26},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-99747},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.26},
annote = {Keywords: Minimum-weight partial matching, Pattern matching, Approximation}
}