@Article{ccellt-hfdbc-10l, author = "Chambers, Erin W. and Colin de Verdi{\`e}re, {\'E}ric and Erickson, Jeff and Lazard, Sylvain and Lazarus, Francis and Thite, Shripad", title = "Homotopic {F}r{\'e}chet distance between curves --- or, walking your dog in the woods in polynomial time", journal = "Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications" volume = "43", number = "295--311", year = "2010", note = "Special issue of invited papers from \emph{Proc.\ ACM Symp.\ \ on Computational Geometry (SOCG)}, 2008, 101--109. Preliminary version in Proc.\ Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry (FWCG), 2007.", }