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Natural pseudo-distance and optimal matching between reduced size functions. (English) Zbl 1198.68224
Summary: This paper studies the properties of a new lower bound for the natural pseudo-distance. The natural pseudo-distance is a dissimilarity measure between shapes, where a shape is viewed as a topological space endowed with a real-valued continuous function. Measuring dissimilarity amounts to minimizing the change in the functions due to the application of homeomorphisms between topological spaces, with respect to the $$L _{\infty }$$-norm. In order to obtain the lower bound, a suitable metric between size functions, called matching distance, is introduced. It compares size functions by solving an optimal matching problem between countable point sets. The matching distance is shown to be resistant to perturbations, implying that it is always smaller than the natural pseudo-distance. We also prove that the lower bound so obtained is sharp and cannot be improved by any other distance between size functions.

##### MSC:
 68T10 Pattern recognition, speech recognition 58C05 Real-valued functions on manifolds 49Q10 Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces
##### Keywords:
dissimilarity measure between shapes
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