Shape recognition via Wasserstein distance

DOI10.1090/QAM/1788425zbMath1039.49038OpenAlexW2122321062MaRDI QIDQ4453599

Robert J. McCann, Wilfrid Gangbo

Publication date: 7 March 2004

Published in: Quarterly of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1788425

zbMATH Keywords

regularityshape recognitiondoubly stochastic measuresMonge-Kantorovich mass transferKantorovich-Rubinstein-Wasserstein metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Measures and integrals in product spaces (28A35)

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