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We describe conditions under which an appropriately-defined anisotropic Voronoi diagram of a set of sites in Euclidean space is guaranteed to be composed of connected cells in any number of dimensions. These conditions are natural for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-02-18 Guillermo D. Canas , Steven J. Gortler

The Voronoi diagrams are an important tool having theoretical and practical applications in a large number of fields. We present a new procedure, implemented as a set of CUDA kernels, which detects, in a general and efficient way,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-08 Massimo Bernaschi , Matteo Lulli , Mauro Sbragaglia

Deep learning has been used as a powerful tool for various tasks in computer vision, such as image segmentation, object recognition and data generation. A key part of end-to-end training is designing the appropriate encoder to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Qing Fang

The Voronoi-based cellular model is highly successful in describing the motion of two-dimensional confluent cell tissues. In the homogeneous version of this model, the energy of each cell is determined solely by its geometric shape and…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-07 Eial Teomy , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

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

This paper proposes a concise coding of the cells of n-dimensional finite regular grids. It induces a simple, generic and efficient framework for implementing classical digital topology data structures and algorithms. Discrete subsets of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-06-16 Jacques-Olivier Lachaud

The Voronoi diagram is a certain geometric data structure which has numerous applications in various scientific and technological fields. The theory of algorithms for computing 2D Euclidean Voronoi diagrams of point sites is rich and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Daniel Reem

We present a two-scale topology optimization framework for the design of macroscopic bodies with an optimized elastic response, which is achieved by means of a spatially-variant cellular architecture on the microscale. The chosen spinodoid…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Li Zheng , Siddhant Kumar , Dennis M. Kochmann

Voronoi diagrams are highly compact representations that are used in various Graphics applications. In this work, we show how to embed a differentiable version of it -- via a novel deep architecture -- into a generative deep network. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Francis Williams , Daniele Panozzo , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

We consider problem of constructing purely Voronoi mesh where the union of uncut Voronoi cells approximates the planar computational domain with piecewise-smooth boundary. Smooth boundary fragments are approximated by the Voronoi edges and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-17 V. A. Garanzha , L. N. Kudryavtseva , V. O. Tsvetkova

In this article, we propose a numerical method to solve semi-discrete optimal transport problems for gigantic pointsets (108 points and more). By pushing the limits by several orders of magnitude, it opens the path to new applications in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Bruno Lévy , Nicolas Ray , Quentin Mérigot , Hugo Leclerc

Volumetric shape representations have become ubiquitous in multi-view reconstruction tasks. They often build on regular voxel grids as discrete representations of 3D shape functions, such as SDF or radiance fields, either as the full shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Diego Thomas , Briac Toussaint , Jean-Sebastien Franco , Edmond Boyer

In cellular networks, users are grouped into different cells and served by different access points (base stations) that provide wireless access to services and applications. In general, the service demand is very heterogeneous,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-07 David González G. , Harri Hakula , Antti Rasila , Jyri Hämäläinen

Data-driven cell tracking and segmentation methods in biomedical imaging require diverse and information-rich training data. In cases where the number of training samples is limited, synthetic computer-generated data sets can be used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 David Wiesner , Julian Suk , Sven Dummer , Tereza Nečasová , Vladimír Ulman , David Svoboda , Jelmer M. Wolterink

The paper presents a new method for shape and topology optimization based on an efficient and scalable boundary integral formulation for elasticity. To optimize topology, our approach uses iterative extraction of isosurfaces of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Igor Ostanin , Ivan Tsybulin , Mikhail Litsarev , Ivan Oseledets , Denis Zorin

In this paper, we investigate the optimization of Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations (CVT) under geometric constraints. For this purpose, we minimize a linear combination of the standard CVT energy functional with terms involving geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Ernesto G. Birgin , Juan S. C. Franco , Antoine Laurain

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Yan-Chao Wang , Feng Lin , Hock-Soon Seah

Rapid advance of experimental techniques provides an unprecedented in-depth view into complex developmental processes. Still, little is known on how the complexity of multicellular organisms evolved by elaborating developmental programs and…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-16 Somya Mani , Tsvi Tlusty

The classic Voronoi cells can be generalized to a higher-order version by considering the cells of points for which a given $k$-element subset of the set of sites consists of the $k$ closest sites. We study the structure of the $k$-order…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz , Vera Roshchina , Maxim Todorov

With the emergence of new photonic and plasmonic materials with optimized properties as well as advanced nanofabrication techniques, nanophotonic devices are now capable of providing solutions to global challenges in energy conversion,…