Partial Least-Squares Point Matching under Translations
Günter Rote · 2010
We consider the problem of translating a given pattern set B of size m, and matching every point of B to some point of a larger ground set A of size n in an injective way, minimizing the sum of the squared distances between matched points. We show that when B can only be translated along a line, there can be at most m(n − m) + 1 different matchings as B moves along the line, and hence the optimal translation can be found in polynomial time.