Shape matching is an important ingredient in shape retrieval, recognition and classification, alignment and registration, and approximation and simplification. In a large database of shapes, for example, shape retrieval searches for all shapes similar to a query shape. In geometric
Shape Approximation
Substituting a complex geometric shape by a “simpler” one is motivated by many applications. A typical example is the problem of computing the smallest (area) enclosing disc (or annulus, square, …) of a given set of points in d-dimensional Euclidean