English
Related papers

Related papers: The Parameterized Hardness of Art Gallery Problems

200 papers

In the Art Gallery Problem we are given a polygon $P\subset [0,L]^2$ on $n$ vertices and a number $k$. We want to find a guard set $G$ of size $k$, such that each point in $P$ is seen by a guard in $G$. Formally, a guard $g$ sees a point $p…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Michael Gene Dobbins , Andreas Holmsen , Tillmann Miltzow

In this paper we study the art gallery problem, which is one of the fundamental problems in computational geometry. The objective is to place a minimum number of guards inside a simple polygon such that the guards together can see the whole…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Anna Adamaszek , Tillmann Miltzow

The Art Gallery Problem (AGP) is one of the classical problems in computational geometry. It asks for the minimum number of guards required to achieve visibility coverage of a given polygon. The AGP is well-known to be NP-hard even in…

We consider a variant of the art gallery problem where all guards are limited to seeing to the right inside a monotone polygon. We call such guards: half-guards. We provide a polynomial-time approximation for point guarding the entire…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Hannah Miller Hillberg , Erik Krohn , Alex Pahlow

We present approximation algorithms with O(n^3) processing time for the minimum vertex and edge guard problems in simple polygons. It is improved from previous O(n^4) time algorithms of Ghosh. For simple polygon, there are O(n^3) visibility…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Dae-Sung Jang , Sun-Il Kwon

In the art gallery problem, we are given a closed polygon $P$, with rational coordinates and an integer $k$. We are asked whether it is possible to find a set (of guards) $G$ of size $k$ such that any point $p\in P$ is seen by a point in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Lucas Meijer , Tillmann Miltzow

In the problem "Localization and trilateration with the minimum number of landmarks", we faced the 3-Guard and classic Art Gallery Problems. The goal of the art gallery problem is to find the minimum number of guards within a simple polygon…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Bahram Sadeghi Bigham , Sahar Badri , Nazanin Padkan

We study the classical Art Gallery Problem first proposed by Klee in 1973 from a mobile multi-agents perspective. Specifically, we require an optimally small number of agents (also called guards) to navigate and position themselves in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Barath Ashok , John Augustine , Aditya Mehekare , Sridhar Ragupathi , Srikkanth Ramachandran , Suman Sourav

We study the Witness Set problem, a natural dual to the classical Art Gallery problem. In the Witness Set problem, we are given a polygon $P$ and an integer $k$ as input, and the objective is to determine whether $P$ has a witness set of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Satyabrata Jana , Debabrata Pal , Bodhayan Roy , Sasanka Roy

The contiguous art gallery problem was introduced at SoCG'25 in a merged paper that combined three simultaneous results, each achieving a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem. This problem is a variant of the classical art gallery…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sarita de Berg , Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Frank Staals

Art Gallery Localization (AGL) is the problem of placing a set $T$ of broadcast towers in a simple polygon $P$ in order for a point to locate itself in the interior. For any point $p \in P$: for each tower $t \in T \cap V(p)$ (where $V(p)$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Prosenjit Bose , Jean-Lou De Carufel , Alina Shaikhet , Michiel Smid

Recently, a natural variant of the Art Gallery problem, known as the \emph{Contiguous Art Gallery problem} was proposed. Given a simple polygon $P$, the goal is to partition its boundary $\partial P$ into the smallest number of contiguous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Sarita de Berg , Jacobus Conradi , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg

We examine the Art Gallery Problem with Edge Guards. We present a heuristic algorithm to arrange edge guards to guard only the inward side of the walls of any N-vertex simple polygonal gallery using at most roof (N/4) edge guards - a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-17 R. Nandakumar

The problem of vertex guarding a simple polygon was first studied by Subir K. Ghosh (1987), who presented a polynomial-time $O(\log n)$-approximation algorithm for placing as few guards as possible at vertices of a simple $n$-gon $P$, such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Stav Ashur , Omrit Filtser , Matthew J. Katz

In any simple polygonal art gallery with n walls, we show that it is possible to place floor(n/2)-1 guards whose range of vision is 180 degrees in such a way that every interior point of the gallery can be seen by one of them, and such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Daniel Florentino , Ethan Moy , Robert Muth

We are interested in the problem of guarding simple orthogonal polygons with the minimum number of $ r $-guards. The interior point $ p $ belongs an orthogonal polygon $ P $ is visible from $ r $-guard $ g $, if the minimum area rectangle…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Hamid Hoorfar , Alireza Bagheri

The Art Gallery Problem is one of the most well-known problems in Computational Geometry, with a rich history in the study of algorithms, complexity, and variants. Recently there has been a surge in experimental work on the problem. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Pedro J. de Rezende , Cid C. de Souza , Stephan Friedrichs , Michael Hemmer , Alexander Kröller , Davi C. Tozoni

In the original Art Gallery Problem (AGP), one seeks the minimum number of guards required to cover a polygon $P$. We consider the Chromatic AGP (CAGP), where the guards are colored. As long as $P$ is completely covered, the number of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Sándor P. Fekete , Stephan Friedrichs , Michael Hemmer

This paper studies a variant of the Art Gallery problem in which the ``walls" can be replaced by \emph{reflecting edges}, which allows the guards to see further and thereby see a larger portion of the gallery. Given a simple polygon $\cal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Arash Vaezi , Bodhayan Roy , Mohammad Ghodsi

For a polygon P with n vertices, the vertex guarding problem asks for the minimum subset G of P's vertices such that every point in P is seen by at least one point in G. This problem is NP-complete and APX-hard. The first approximation…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-02-17 James King