Quotient elastic metrics on the manifold of arc-length parameterized plane curves (Q2397517)

This paper is devoted to the study of the pull-back of 2-parameter families of quotient metrics introduced in [``On shape of plane elastic curves'', Int. J. Comput. Vision 73, No. 3, 307--324 (2007; \url{doi:10.1007/s11263-006-9968-0})] by \textit{W. Mio} et al. The authors of the paper under review study the problem of finding geodesics between two given arc-length parameterized curves under these quotient elastic metrics, and they give a precise computation of the gradient of the energy functional in the smooth case as well as a discretization of it. Also, they implement a path-straightening method. In conclusion, the paper is interesting and worth to study by those interested in the study of elastic metrics.