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A common approach to compute distances on continuous surfaces is by considering a discretized polygonal mesh approximating the surface and estimating distances on the polygon. We show that exact geodesic distances restricted to the polygon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Saar Huberman , Amit Bracha , Ron Kimmel

Voronoi diagrams appear in many areas in science and technology and have numerous applications. They have been the subject of extensive investigation during the last decades. Roughly speaking, they are a certain decomposition of a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Daniel Reem

We introduce VoroFields, a hierarchical neural-field framework for approximating generalized Voronoi diagrams of finite geometric site sets in low-dimensional domains under arbitrary evaluable point-to-site distances. Instead of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Panagiotis Rigas , George Ioannakis , Ioannis Emiris

A large spectrum of applications such as location based services and environmental monitoring demand efficient query processing on uncertain databases. In this paper, we propose the probabilistic Voronoi diagram (PVD) for processing moving…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-06-30 Mohammed Eunus Ali , Egemen Tanin , Rui Zhang , Ramamohanarao Kotagiri

Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) provide a flexible representation for 3D shapes with arbitrary topology, including open and closed surfaces, orientable and non-orientable geometries, and non-manifold structures. While recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jiayi Kong , Chen Zong , Junkai Deng , Xuhui Chen , Fei Hou , Shiqing Xin , Junhui Hou , Chen Qian , Ying He

The Voronoi diagram-based dual-front active contour models are known as a powerful and efficient way for addressing the image segmentation and domain partitioning problems. In the basic formulation of the dual-front models, the evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Da Chen , Jack Spencer , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Ke Chen , Minglei Shu , Laurent D. Cohen

We revisit a new type of a Voronoi diagram, in which distance is measured from a point to a pair of points. We consider a few more such distance functions, based on geometric primitives, and analyze the structure and complexity of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Gill Barequet , Matthew T. Dickerson , David Eppstein , David Hodorkovsky , Kira Vyatkina

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

Navigating topological transitions in cellular mechanical systems is a significant challenge for existing simulation methods. While abstract models lack predictive capabilities at the cellular level, explicit network representations…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Logan Numerow , Yue Li , Stelian Coros , Bernhard Thomaszewski

The Voronoi diagram of a finite set of objects is a fundamental geometric structure that subdivides the embedding space into regions, each region consisting of the points that are closer to a given object than to the others. We may define…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Frank Nielsen , Jean-Daniel Boissonnat , Richard Nock

Voronoi diagrams, and their more general weighted counterpart, power diagrams, are fundamental geometric constructs with wide-ranging applications. Recently, they have gained renewed attention in mesh-based neural rendering. Despite being…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bernardo Taveira , Carl Lindström , Maryam Fatemi , Lars Hammarstrand , Fredrik Kahl

We propose a self-improving algorithm for computing Voronoi diagrams under a given convex distance function with constant description complexity. The $n$ input points are drawn from a hidden mixture of product distributions; we are only…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Siu-Wing Cheng , Man Ting Wong

The computation of Voronoi Diagrams, or their dual Delauney triangulations is difficult in high dimensions. In a recent publication Polianskii and Pokorny propose an iterative randomized algorithm facilitating the approximation of Voronoi…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Alexander Sikorski , Martin Heida

We present an explicit and efficient construction of additively weighted Voronoi diagrams on planar graphs. Let $G$ be a planar graph with $n$ vertices and $b$ sites that lie on a constant number of faces. We show how to preprocess $G$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Paweł Gawrychowski , Haim Kaplan , Shay Mozes , Micha Sharir , Oren Weimann

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

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

Given two point sets in the plane, we study the minimization of the bottleneck distance between a point set B and an equally-sized subset of a point set A under translations. We relate this problem to a Voronoi-type diagram and derive…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Matthias Henze , Rafel Jaume

Let $P$ be a planar set of $n$ sites in general position. For $k\in\{1,\dots,n-1\}$, the Voronoi diagram of order $k$ for $P$ is obtained by subdividing the plane into cells such that points in the same cell have the same set of nearest $k$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Bahareh Banyassady , Matias Korman , Wolfgang Mulzer , André van Renssen , Marcel Roeloffzen , Paul Seiferth , Yannik Stein

Given a set $\mathsf{P}$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, we show how to insert a set $\mathsf{X}$ of $O( n^{1-1/d} )$ additional points, such that $\mathsf{P}$ can be broken into two sets $\mathsf{P}_1$ and $\mathsf{P}_2$, of roughly equal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Vijay V. S. P. Bhattiprolu , Sariel Har-Peled

This article presents an algorithm to compute digital images of Voronoi, Johnson-Mehl or Laguerre diagrams of a set of punctual sites, in a domain of a Euclidean space of any dimension. The principle of the algorithm is, in a first step, to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-01 H Moulinec