Approximating the Earth Mover's Distance between sets of geometric objects

M van Kreveld, F Staals, A Vaxman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Given two distributions $ P $ and $ S $ of equal total mass, the Earth Mover's Distance
measures the cost of transforming one distribution into the other, where the cost of moving a …

[PDF][PDF] Geometric similarity measures and their applications

JL Vermeulen - 2023 - core.ac.uk
Computers and automation continue to fulfil an increasingly important role in our society.
Advances in the research field of computer science are one of the driving forces behind this …

A practical algorithm for spatial agglomerative clustering

T Castermans, B Speckman, K Verbeek - … of the Twenty-First Workshop on …, 2019 - SIAM
We study an agglomerative clustering problem motivated by visualizing disjoint glyphs
(represented by geometric shapes) centered at specific locations on a geographic map. As …