This packages implements methods for elastic shape mean compuation proposed in Stöcker et. al. (2022). To cite the package ‘elastes’ in publications, you may also cite the paper.

Stöcker A, Pfeuffer M, Steyer L, Greven S (2022). “Elastic Full Procrustes Analysis of Plane Curves via Hermitian Covariance Smoothing.” doi:10.48550/ARXIV.2203.10522.

Pfeuffer M, Steyer L, Stoecker A (2023). elastes: Elastic Full Procrustes Means for Sparse and Irregular Planar Curves. doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.elastes. R package version 0.1.7, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=elastes.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Misc{,
    title = {Elastic Full Procrustes Analysis of Plane Curves via
      Hermitian Covariance Smoothing},
    author = {Almond Stöcker and Manuel Pfeuffer and Lisa Steyer and
      Sonja Greven},
    year = {2022},
    publisher = {arXiv},
    doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2203.10522},
  }

  @Manual{,
    title = {elastes: Elastic Full Procrustes Means for Sparse and
      Irregular Planar Curves},
    author = {Manuel Pfeuffer and Lisa Steyer and Almond Stoecker},
    year = {2023},
    note = {R package version 0.1.7},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=elastes},
    doi = {10.32614/CRAN.package.elastes},
  }