L. E. Caraballo, R. A. Castro, J. M. Díaz-Báñez, M. A. Heredia, J. Urrutia, I. Ventura, F. J. Zaragoza
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Abstract
In the minimum-weight many-to-many point matching problem, we are given a set R of red points and a set B of blue points in the plane, of total size N, and we want to pair up each point in R to one or more points in B and vice versa so that the sum of distances between the paired points is minimized. This problem can be solved in \(O(N^3)\) time by using a reduction to the minimum-weight perfect matching problem, and thus, it is not fast enough to be used for on-line systems where a large number of tunes need to be compared. Motivated by similarity problems in music theory, in this paper we study several constrained minimum-weight many-to-many point matching problems in which the allowed pairings are given by geometric restrictions, i.e., a bichromatic pair can be matched if and only if the corresponding points satisfy a specific condition of closeness. We provide algorithms to solve these constrained versions in O(N) time when the sets R and B are given ordered by abscissa.
在最小权重多对多点匹配问题中,我们给定了平面上总大小为 N 的红色点集合 R 和蓝色点集合 B,我们希望将 R 中的每个点与 B 中的一个或多个点配对,反之亦然,从而使配对点之间的距离之和最小。通过对最小权重完全匹配问题的还原,这个问题可以在(O(N^3)\)时间内解决,因此,对于需要比较大量曲调的在线系统来说,它的速度还不够快。受音乐理论中相似性问题的启发,我们在本文中研究了几种受限的最小权重多对多点匹配问题,其中允许的配对是由几何限制给出的,即只有当且仅当对应点满足特定的接近条件时,才能匹配一对双色点。当 R 集和 B 集按横座标排序时,我们提供了在 O(N) 时间内求解这些受限版本的算法。
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