Map-Matching Queries Under Fréchet Distance on Low-Density Spanners

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Map matching is a common task when analysing GPS tracks, such as vehicle trajectories. The goal is to match a recorded noisy polygonal curve to a path on the map, usually represented as a geometric graph. The Fréchet distance is a commonly used metric for curves, making it a natural fit. The map-matching problem is well-studied, yet until recently no-one tackled the data structure question: preprocess a given graph so that one can query the minimum Fréchet distance between all graph paths and a polygonal curve. Recently, Gudmundsson, Seybold, and Wong [13] studied this problem for arbitrary query polygonal curves and c-packed graphs. In this paper, we instead require the graphs to be λ-low-density t-spanners, which is significantly more representative of real-world networks. We also show how to report a path that minimises the distance efficiently rather than only returning the minimal distance, which was stated as an open problem in their paper.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry, SoCG 2024
EditorsWolfgang Mulzer, Jeff M. Phillips
Number of pages15
PublisherSchloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
Publication date2024
Article number27
ISBN (Electronic)9783959773164
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry, SoCG 2024 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 11 Jun 202414 Jun 2024

Conference

Conference40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry, SoCG 2024
LandGreece
ByAthens
Periode11/06/202414/06/2024
SeriesLeibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
Volume293
ISSN1868-8969

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Publisher Copyright:
© Kevin Buchin, Maike Buchin, Joachim Gudmundsson, Aleksandr Popov, and Sampson Wong.

    Research areas

  • Data Structures, Fréchet Distance, Map Matching

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