Results
We are very happy to announce that the challenge has attracted many submissions. The 28 submissions and 69 individual co-authors from all over the world highlight worldwide interest in the challenge problem as well as SIGSPATIAL itself.
Winning Teams
- First Place: J. Baldus and K Bringman (win a NVIDIA Titan X GPU from our sponsor NVIDIA.)
- Second Place: Kevin Buchin, Yago Diez, Tom van Diggelen, and Wouter Meulemans (win $300 in cash from our sponsor IBM.)
- Third Place: Fabian Dütsch and Jan Vahrenhold (win $200 in cash from our sponsor IBM.)
Paper of the Winning Teams
All winning teams were invited to publish a paper describing their approach in the proceedings of SIGSPATIAL GIS.
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A fast implementation of near neighbors queries for fréchet distance.
J. Baldus and K. Bringmann. -
Efficient trajectory queries under the fréchet distance.
K. Buchin, Y. Diez, T. van Diggelen, and W. Meulemans. -
A filter-and-refinement-algorithm for range queries based on the fréchet distance.
F. Dütsch and J. Vahrenhold.