An efficiently computable metric for comparing polygonal shapes

A method for comparing polygons that is a metric, invariant under translation, rotation, and change of scale, reasonably easy to compute, and intuitive is presented. The method is based on the L/sub 2/ distance between the turning functions of the two polygons. It works for both convex and nonconvex polygons and runs in time O(mn log mn), where m is the number of vertices in one polygon and n is the number of vertices in the other. Some examples showing that the method produces answers that are intuitively reasonable are presented. >

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