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This paper presents a practical GPU-accelerated convex hull algorithm and a novel Sorting-based Preprocessing Approach (SPA) for planar point sets. The proposed algorithm consists of two stages: (1) two rounds of preprocessing performed on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Gang Mei

An effective strategy for accelerating the calculation of convex hulls for point sets is to filter the input points by discarding interior points. In this paper, we present such a straightforward and efficient preprocessing approach by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Gang Mei

We present a novel GPU-accelerated implementation of the QuickHull algorihtm for calculating convex hulls of planar point sets. We also describe a practical solution to demonstrate how to efficiently implement a typical Divide-and-Conquer…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Jiayin Zhang , Gang Mei , Nengxiong Xu , Kunyang Zhao

The Convex Hull algorithm is one of the most important algorithms in computational geometry, with many applications such as in computer graphics, robotics, and data mining. Despite the advances in the new algorithms in this area, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Roberto Carrasco , Héctor Ferrada , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Nancy Hitschfeld

We present a convex hull algorithm that is accelerated on commodity graphics hardware. We analyze and identify the hurdles of writing a recursive divide and conquer algorithm on the GPU and divise a framework for representing this class of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Stanley Tzeng , John D. Owens

The convex hull is a fundamental geometrical structure for many applications where groups of points must be enclosed or represented by a convex polygon. Although efficient sequential convex hull algorithms exist, and are constantly being…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Alan Keith , Héctor Ferrada , Cristóbal A. Navarro

An incremental approach for computation of convex hull for data points in two-dimensions is presented. The algorithm is not output-sensitive and costs a time that is linear in the size of data points at input. Graham's scan is applied only…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Debashis Mukherjee

Finding the convex hull is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Quickhull is a fast algorithm for finding convex hulls. In this paper, we present VQhull, a fast parallel implementation of Quickhull that exploits vector…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Thomas Koopman , Jordy Aaldering , Bernard van Gastel , Sven-Bodo Scholz

In recent years, applications such as real-time simulations, autonomous systems, and video games increasingly demand the processing of complex geometric models under stringent time constraints. Traditional geometric algorithms, including…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Roberto Carrasco , Enzo Meneses , Hector Ferrada , Cristobal A. Navarro , Nancy Hitschfeld

This paper presents an alternate choice of computing the convex hulls (CHs) for planar point sets. We firstly discard the interior points and then sort the remaining vertices by x- / y- coordinates separately, and later create a group…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Gang Mei , John C. Tipper , Nengxiong Xu

We describe a pure divide-and-conquer parallel algorithm for computing 3D convex hulls. We implement that algorithm on GPU hardware, and find a significant speedup over comparable CPU implementations.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Jeffrey M. White , Kevin A. Wortman

Structural clustering is one of the most popular graph clustering methods, which has achieved great performance improvement by utilizing GPUs. Even though, the state-of-the-art GPU-based structural clustering algorithm, GPUSCAN, still…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Long Yuan , Zeyu Zhou , Xuemin Lin , Zi Chen , Xiang Zhao , Fan Zhang

Process mapping asks to assign vertices of a task graph to processing elements of a supercomputer such that the computational workload is balanced while the communication cost is minimized. Motivated by the recent success of GPU-based graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Petr Samoldekin , Christian Schulz , Henning Woydt

The present paper is concerned with a recursive algorithm as a preprocessing step to find the convex hull of $n$ random points uniformly distributed in the plane. For such a set of points, it is shown that eliminating all but $O(\log n)$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Mohammad Heydari , Ashkan Khalifeh

We present the GPU implementation of the general-purpose interior-point solver Clarabel for convex optimization problems with conic constraints. We introduce a mixed parallel computing strategy that processes linear constraints first, then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yuwen Chen , Danny Tse , Parth Nobel , Paul Goulart , Stephen Boyd

In this paper, a fast and practical GPU-based implementation of Fuzzy C-Means(FCM) clustering algorithm for image segmentation is proposed. First, an extensive analysis is conducted to study the dependency among the image pixels in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Mishal Almazrooie , Mogana Vadiveloo , Rosni Abdullah

In this paper, we propose a GPU-efficient subgraph isomorphism algorithm using the Gunrock graph analytic framework, GSM (Gunrock Subgraph Matching), to compute graph matching on GPUs. In contrast to previous approaches on the CPU which are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Leyuan Wang , John D. Owens

Study of general purpose computation by GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) can improve the image processing capability of micro-computer system. This paper studies the parallelism of the different stages of decimation in time radix 2 FFT…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Feifei Shen , Zhenjian Song , Congrui Wu , Jiaqi Geng , Qingyun Wang

We propose a highly parallel primal-dual algorithm for the multicut (a.k.a. correlation clustering) problem, a classical graph clustering problem widely used in machine learning and computer vision. Our algorithm consists of three steps…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Ahmed Abbas , Paul Swoboda

The convex hull describes the extent or shape of a set of data and is used ubiquitously in computational geometry. Common algorithms to construct the convex hull on a finite set of n points (x,y) range from O(nlogn) time to O(n) time.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-06 José O. Cadenas , Graham Megson
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