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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 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

Convex hulls are fundamental geometric tools used in a number of algorithms. This paper presents a fast, simple to implement and robust Smart Convex Hull (S-CH) algorithm for computing the convex hull of a set of points in E3. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Vaclav Skala , Zuzana Majdisova , Michal Smolik

This paper evaluates several improvements to the memory layout of convex hulls to improve computation times for support point queries. The support point query is a fundamental part of common collision algorithms, and the work presented…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Michael Greer

The computation of determinants or their signs is the core procedure in many important geometric algorithms, such as convex hull, volume and point location. As the dimension of the computation space grows, a higher percentage of the total…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Vissarion Fisikopoulos , Luis Peñaranda

A new approach to the local and global explanation is proposed. It is based on selecting a convex hull constructed for the finite number of points around an explained instance. The convex hull allows us to consider a dual representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Andrei V. Konstantinov , Boris V. Kozlov , Stanislav R. Kirpichenko , Lev V. Utkin

In this article, we determine the amortized computational complexity of the planar dynamic convex hull problem by querying. We present a data structure that maintains a set of n points in the plane under the insertion and deletion of points…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Riko Jacob , Gerth Stølting Brodal

Convex hulls are a fundamental geometric tool used in a number of algorithms. As a side-effect of exhaustive tests for an algorithm for which a convex hull computation was the first step, interesting experimental results were found and are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Jean Souviron

High-dimensional linear regression under heavy-tailed noise or outlier corruption is challenging, both computationally and statistically. Convex approaches have been proven statistically optimal but suffer from high computational costs,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Yinan Shen , Jingyang Li , Jian-Feng Cai , Dong Xia

This paper presents a new O(nlog(n)) algorithm for computing the convex hull of a set of 3 dimensional points. The algorithm first sorts the point in (x,y,z) then incrementally adds sorted points to the convex hull using the constraint that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-02-16 David Sinclair

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

In an ordinary feature selection procedure, a set of important features is obtained by solving an optimization problem such as the Lasso regression problem, and we expect that the obtained features explain the data well. In this study,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-16 Satoshi Hara , Takanori Maehara

We compute exactly the mean perimeter <L(T)> and the mean area <A(T)> of the convex hull of a random acceleration process of duration T in two dimensions. We use an exact mapping that relates, via Cauchy's formulae, the computation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-22 Alexis Reymbaut , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso

Convex hulls are a fundamental geometric tool used in a number of algorithms. A famous paper by Akl and Toussaint in 1978 described a way to reduce the number of points involved in the computation, which is since known as the Akl-Toussaint…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Jean Souviron

Convex hulls are useful as tight bounding proxies for a variety of tasks including collision detection, ray intersection, and distance computation. Unfortunately, the complexity of polyhedral convex hulls grows linearly with their input. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Alec Jacobson

We consider the problem of reporting convex hull points in an orthogonal range query in two dimensions. Formally, let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$. A point lies on the convex hull of a point set $S$ if it lies on the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-24 Jatin Agarwal , Nadeem Moidu , Kishore Kothapalli , Kannan Srinathan

We consider the following problem in computational geometry: given, in the d-dimensional real space, a set of points marked as positive and a set of points marked as negative, such that the convex hull of the positive set does not intersect…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Michele Barbato , Alberto Ceselli , Rosario Messana

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

We study the question of how to compute a point in the convex hull of an input set $S$ of $n$ points in ${\mathbb R}^d$ in a differentially private manner. This question, which is trivial non-privately, turns out to be quite deep when…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Haim Kaplan , Micha Sharir , Uri Stemmer

We present new iterative algorithms for solving a square linear system $Ax=b$ in dimension $n$ by employing the {\it Triangle Algorithm} \cite{kal12}, a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme for testing if the convex hull of a finite…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Bahman Kalantari