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Region extraction is necessary in a wide range of applications, from object detection in autonomous driving to analysis of subcellular morphology in cell biology. There exist two main approaches: convex hull extraction, for which exact and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Kevin Christopher VanHorn , Murat Can Çobanoğlu

We investigate the fine-grained complexity of dynamically maintaining the result of fixed self-join free conjunctive queries under single-tuple updates. Prior work shows that free-connex queries can be maintained in update time…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Qichen Wang

The convex hull of a set of points, $C$, serves to expose extremal properties of $C$ and can help identify elements in $C$ of high interest. For many problems, particularly in the presence of noise, the true vertex set (and facets) may be…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Lori Ziegelmeier , Michael Kirby , Chris Peterson

Single-linkage clustering is a popular form of hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) where the distance between two clusters is defined as the minimum distance between any pair of points across the two clusters. In single-linkage HAC,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Quinten De Man , Laxman Dhulipala , Kishen N Gowda

We propose a fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining reachability information in directed graphs. The proposed deterministic dynamic algorithm has an update time of $O((ins*n^{2}) + (del * (m+n*log(n))))$ where $m$ is the current number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-11-22 Venkata Seshu Kumar Kurapati

A (fully) dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that supports edge insertions, edge deletions, and answers specific queries pertinent to the problem at hand. In this work, we address the fully dynamic edge orientation problem, also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Ernestine Großmann , Henrik Reinstädtler , Christian Schulz , Fabian Walliser

Constant workspace algorithms use a constant number of words in addition to the read-only input to the algorithm. In this paper, we devise algorithms to efficiently compute relative hulls in the plane using a constant workspace.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Himanshu Chhabra , R. Inkulu

We investigate several computational problems related to the stochastic convex hull (SCH). Given a stochastic dataset consisting of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ each of which has an existence probability, a SCH refers to the convex hull of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Jie Xue , Yuan Li , Ravi Janardan

Maintaining spatial data (points in two or three dimensions) is crucial and has a wide range of applications, such as graphics, GIS, and robotics. To handle spatial data, many data structures, called spatial indexes, have been proposed,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Ziyang Men , Bo Huang , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

We present efficient dynamic data structures for maintaining the union of unit discs and the lower envelope of pseudo-lines in the plane. More precisely, we present three main results in this paper: (i) We present a linear-size data…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Ravid Cohen , Dan Halperin , Wolfgang Mulzer

In this paper, we construct a data structure to efficiently compute the longest increasing subsequence of a sequence subject to dynamic updates. Our data structure supports a query for the longest increasing subsequence in $O(r+\log n)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Alex Chen , Timothy Chu , Nathan Pinsker

For a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane and a value $r > 0$, the unit-disk range reporting problem is to construct a data structure so that given any query disk of radius $r$, all points of $P$ in the disk can be reported efficiently. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haitao Wang , Yiming Zhao

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

Given a string $S$ over an alphabet $\Sigma$, the 'string indexing problem' is to preprocess $S$ to subsequently support efficient pattern matching queries, i.e., given a pattern string $P$ report all the occurrences of $P$ in $S$. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Philip Bille , Johannes Fischer , Inge Li Gørtz , Max Rishøj Pedersen , Tord Joakim Stordalen

We consider space-bounded computations on a random-access machine (RAM) where the input is given on a read-only random-access medium, the output is to be produced to a write-only sequential-access medium, and the available workspace allows…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Omar Darwish , Amr Elmasry , Jyrki Katajainen

This study presents a novel algorithm for identifying the set of extreme points that constitute the exact convex hull of a point set in high-dimensional Euclidean space. The proposed method iteratively solves a sequence of dynamically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qianwei Zhuang

Given a set of $n$ points $P$ in the plane, the first layer $L_1$ of $P$ is formed by the points that appear on $P$'s convex hull. In general, a point belongs to layer $L_i$, if it lies on the convex hull of the set $P \setminus…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Raimi A. Rufai , Dana S. Richards

We study the dynamic query evaluation problem: Given a full conjunctive query Q and a sequence of updates to the input database, we construct a data structure that supports constant-delay enumeration of the tuples in the query output after…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mahmoud Abo Khamis , Ahmet Kara , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu

In the range $\alpha$-majority query problem, we are given a sequence $S[1..n]$ and a fixed threshold $\alpha \in (0, 1)$, and are asked to preprocess $S$ such that, given a query range $[i..j]$, we can efficiently report the symbols that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Travis Gagie , Meng He , Gonzalo Navarro

We study the amortized number of combinatorial changes (edge insertions and removals) needed to update the graph structure of the Voronoi diagram $\mathcal{V}(S)$ (and several variants thereof) of a set $S$ of $n$ sites in the plane as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Sarah R. Allen , Luis Barba , John Iacono , Stefan Langerman