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Fitting a Piecewise-quadratic Polynomial Curve to Points in the Plane  

Kim, Jae-Hoon (부산외국어대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
Abstract
In this paper, we study the problem to fit a piecewise-quadratic polynomial curve to points in the plane. The curve consists of quadratic polynomial segments and two points are connected by a segment. But it passes through a subset of points, and for the points not to be passed, the error between the curve and the points is estimated in $L^{\infty}$ metric. We consider two optimization problems for the above problem. One is to reduce the number of segments of the curve, given the allowed error, and the other is to reduce the error between the curve and the points, while the curve has the number of segments less than or equal to the given integer. For the number n of given points, we propose $O(n^2)$ algorithm for the former problem and $O(n^3)$ algorithm for the latter.
Keywords
quadratic polynomial; fitting; $L^{\infty}$ metric; optimization;
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