Title
Efficient and Accurate Hausdorff Distance Computation Based on Diffusion Search.
Abstract
The Hausdorff distance (HD) between two point sets is widely used in similarity measures, but the high computational cost of HD algorithms restrict their practical use. In this paper, we analyze the time complexity to compute an accurate Hausdorff distance and find that reducing the iterations of the inner loop significantly contributes in reducing the average time cost. Based on the observation that the nearest neighbor (NN) of the breakpoint in the current inner loop suggests a higher probability to break the next inner loop, we present a novel and efficient approach for computing the accurate Hausdorff distance based on a diffusion search. The current breakpoint is recorded as the diffusion center of the next inner loop so that the efficiency of the HD computation can be significantly improved without scanning every point. According to the type of 3-D model (sparse and dense point sets), a novel HD computation framework consisting of two specific diffusion search methods is proposed. First, a Z-order-based HD algorithm (ZHD) for a sparse point sets is proposed. Second, to avoid the low efficiency of a diffusion search when computing the Hausdorff distance between dense point sets with the ZHD algorithm, an octree-based HD algorithm (OHD) is proposed. Evaluation results demonstrate that the ZHD algorithm and the OHD algorithm can greatly reduce the time complexity of HD computations for sparse and dense point sets, respectively. In addition, we conduct several comparative experiments against the most famous HD computation methods. Experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves performance as good as the most efficient available algorithm and exhibits better performance in dealing with spatial data that is highly overlapping.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2778745
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hausdorff distance (HD),time complexity,Z-order,octree,similarity measure
k-nearest neighbors algorithm,Inner loop,High-definition video,Approximation algorithm,Computer science,Algorithm,Hausdorff distance,Time complexity,Computation,Distributed computing,Octree
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dejun Zhang123819.97
Lu Zou2262.38
Yi-Lin Chen31449.13
Fazhi He454041.02