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A set S of n points in general position in R^d defines the unique Voronoi diagram of S. Its dual tessellation is the Delaunay triangulation (DT) of S. In this paper we consider the parabolic functional on the set of triangulations of S and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oleg R. Musin

In this paper, we study the following problem of reconstructing a simple polygon: Given a cyclically ordered vertex sequence of an unknown simple polygon P of n vertices and, for each vertex v of P, the sequence of angles defined by all the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-09-15 Danny Z. Chen , Haitao Wang

Determining the number of clusters in a dataset is a fundamental issue in data clustering. Many methods have been proposed to solve the problem of selecting the number of clusters, considering it to be a problem with regard to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ryosuke Motegi , Yoichi Seki

We study the fundamental problem of polytope membership aiming at large convex polytopes, i.e. in high dimension and with many facets, given as an intersection of halfspaces. Standard data-structures as well as brute force methods cannot…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Evangelos Anagnostopoulos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Vissarion Fisikopoulos

Community detection is a ubiquitous problem in applied network analysis, yet efficient techniques do not yet exist for all types of network data. Most techniques have been developed for undirected graphs, and very few exist that handle…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-26 Botond Molnár , Ildikó-Beáta Márton , Szabolcs Horvát , Mária Ercsey-Ravasz

In this paper we are concerned with finding the vertices of the Voronoi cell of a Euclidean lattice. Given a basis of a lattice, we prove that computing the number of vertices is a #P-hard problem. On the other hand we describe an algorithm…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-04 Mathieu Dutour Sikiric , Achill Schuermann , Frank Vallentin

We provide an O(log log OPT)-approximation algorithm for the problem of guarding a simple polygon with guards on the perimeter. We first design a polynomial-time algorithm for building epsilon-nets of size O(1/epsilon log log 1/epsilon) for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-01-26 James King , David Kirkpatrick

We consider the problem of covering the boundary of a simple polygon on n vertices using the minimum number of geodesic unit disks. We present an O(n \log^2 n+k) time 2-approximation algorithm for finding the centers of the disks, with k…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-03 George Rabanca , Ivo Vigan

The lowest-order Neural Approximated Virtual Element Method on polygonal elements is proposed here. This method employs a neural network to locally approximate the Virtual Element basis functions, thereby eliminating issues concerning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Stefano Berrone , Moreno Pintore , Gioana Teora

A Voronoi diagram partitions the plane into convex cells, each containing the points closest to a single generator. Given such a tessellation, the inverse Voronoi problem seeks the generator set \( S \) that produced it. Our algorithm…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Carlos M Hernandez-Suarez

The Voronoi diagram is a geometric object which is widely used in many areas. Recently it has been shown that under mild conditions Voronoi diagrams have a certain continuity property: small perturbations of the sites yield small…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Daniel Reem

We present algorithms for classifying rational polygons with fixed denominator and number of interior lattice points. Our approach is to first describe maximal polygons and then compute all subpolygons, where we eliminate redundancy by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Martin Bohnert , Justus Springer

The point inclusion tests for polygons, in other words the point-in-polygon (PIP) algorithms, are fundamental tools for many scientific fields related to computational geometry, and they have been studied for a long time. The PIP algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Rahman Salim Zengin , Volkan Sezer

In distributed mobile sensing applications, networks of agents that are heterogeneous respecting both actuation as well as body and sensory footprint are often modelled by recourse to power diagrams --- generalized Voronoi diagrams with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Omur Arslan , Daniel E. Koditschek

In this note, a simple description of zone theorem in three dimensions is given.Arrangements in three dimensions are useful for constructing higher-order Voronoi diagrams in plane. An elementary and very intuitive treatment of this result…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Sanjeev Saxena

In energy system analysis, coupling models with mismatched spatial resolutions is a significant challenge. A common solution is assigning weights to high-resolution geographic units for aggregation, but traditional models are limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xuanhao Mu , Jakob Geiges , Nan Liu , Thorsten Schlachter , Veit Hagenmeyer

We consider methods for finding a simple polygon of minimum (Min-Area) or maximum (Max-Area) possible area for a given set of points in the plane. Both problems are known to be NP-hard; at the center of the recent CG Challenge, practical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Sándor P. Fekete , Andreas Haas , Phillip Keldenich , Michael Perk , Arne Schmidt

A main result in this paper is the proof that proximal Vorono\"{i} regions are convex polygons. In addition, it is proved that every collection of proximal Vorono\"{i} regions has a Leader uniform topology.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-14 J. F. Peters

We give lower bounds for the combinatorial complexity of the Voronoi diagram of polygonal curves under the discrete Frechet distance. We show that the Voronoi diagram of n curves in R^d with k vertices each, has complexity Omega(n^{dk}) for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-08-15 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin

We study polynomial-time approximation algorithms for (edge/vertex) Sparsest Cut and Small Set Expansion in terms of $k$, the number of edges or vertices cut in the optimal solution. Our main results are $\mathcal{O}(\text{polylog}\,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Aditya Anand , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li , Thatchaphol Saranurak