Approximation algorithms for computing the earth mover's distance under transformations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3827 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 1019-1028

  Klein, Oliver ^a   Veltkamp, Remco C ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; EARTH MOVER'S DISTANCE (EMD); WEIGHTED POINT SETS;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; EARTH (PLANET); MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SET THEORY;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 33744952693     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11602613_101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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