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A Voronoi diagram is a basic geometric structure that partitions the space into regions associated with a given set of sites, such that all points in a region are closer to the corresponding site than to all other sites. While being…
We investigate the problem of image retrieval based on visual queries when the latter comprise arbitrary regions-of-interest (ROI) rather than entire images. Our proposal is a compact image descriptor that combines the state-of-the-art in…
The reverse $k$ nearest neighbor query finds all points that have the query point as one of their $k$ nearest neighbors, where the $k$NN query finds the $k$ closest points to its query point. Based on conics, we propose an efficent R$k$NN…
In this paper, we propose a novel space partitioning strategy for implicit hierarchy visualization such that the new plot not only has a tidy layout similar to the treemap, but also is flexible to data changes similar to the Voronoi…
We present a major revamp of the point-location data structure for general two-dimensional subdivisions via randomized incremental construction, implemented in CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library. We can now guarantee that…
We consider the replica placement problem: given a graph with clients and nodes, place replicas on a minimum set of nodes to serve all the clients; each client is associated with a request and maximum distance that it can travel to get…
We present efficient data structures for approximate nearest neighbor searching and approximate 2-point shortest path queries in a two-dimensional polygonal domain $P$ with $n$ vertices. Our goal is to store a dynamic set of $m$ point sites…
How efficiently can we find an unknown graph using distance queries between its vertices? We assume that the unknown graph is connected, unweighted, and has bounded degree. The goal is to find every edge in the graph. This problem admits a…
The goal of learning to hash (L2H) is to derive data-dependent hash functions from a given data distribution in order to map data from the input space to a binary coding space. Despite the success of L2H, two observations have cast doubt on…
Approximate nearest-neighbor search is a fundamental algorithmic problem that continues to inspire study due its essential role in numerous contexts. In contrast to most prior work, which has focused on point sets, we consider…
We study the problem of computing the Voronoi diagram of a set of $n^2$ points with $O(\log n)$-bit coordinates in the Euclidean plane in a substantially sublinear in $n$ number of rounds in the congested clique model with $n$ nodes.…
We present an edge labeling of order-$k$ Voronoi diagrams, $V_k(S)$, of point sets $S$ in the plane, and study properties of the regions defined by them. Among them, we show that $V_k(S)$ has a small orientable cycle and path double cover,…
A large spectrum of applications such as location based services and environmental monitoring demand efficient query processing on uncertain databases. In this paper, we propose the probabilistic Voronoi diagram (PVD) for processing moving…
For a given set of points $U$ on a sphere $S$, the order $k$ spherical Voronoi diagram $SV_k(U)$ decomposes the surface of $S$ into regions whose points have the same $k$ nearest points of $U$. Hyeon-Suk Na, Chung-Nim Lee, and Otfried…
Let $P$ be a simple polygon with $n$ vertices. For any two points in $P$, the geodesic distance between them is the length of the shortest path that connects them among all paths contained in $P$. Given a set $S$ of $m$ sites being a subset…
In this paper, we propose to compute Voronoi diagrams over mesh surfaces driven by an arbitrary geodesic distance solver, assuming that the input is a triangle mesh as well as a collection of sites $P=\{p_i\}_{i=1}^m$ on the surface. We…
Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in general position in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The order-$k$ Voronoi diagram of $S$, $V_k(S)$, is a subdivision of $\mathbb{R}^d$ into cells whose points have the same $k$ nearest points of $S$. Sibson, in his seminal…
Any system of bisectors (in the sense of abstract Voronoi diagrams) defines an arrangement of simple curves in the plane. We define Voronoi-like graphs on such an arrangement, which are graphs whose vertices are locally Voronoi. A vertex…
We present an expected linear-time algorithm to construct the farthest-segment Voronoi diagram, given the sequence of its faces at infinity. This sequence forms a Davenport-Schinzel sequence of order 3 and it can be computed in O(n log n)…
Voronoi diagrams appear in many areas in science and technology and have numerous applications. They have been the subject of extensive investigation during the last decades. Roughly speaking, they are a certain decomposition of a given…