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Outlier Detection is a critical and cardinal research task due its array of applications in variety of domains ranging from data mining, clustering, statistical analysis, fraud detection, network intrusion detection and diagnosis of…

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…

We develop a sketching algorithm to find the point on the convex hull of a dataset, closest to a query point outside it. Studying the convex hull of datasets can provide useful information about their geometric structure and their…

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…

We study the problem of minimum enclosing rectangle with outliers, which asks to find, for a given set of $n$ planar points, a rectangle with minimum area that encloses at least $(n-t)$ points. The uncovered points are regarded as outliers.…

Given a point set $P$ in the plane, we seek a subset $Q\subseteq P$, whose convex hull gives a smaller and thus simpler representation of the convex hull of $P$. Specifically, let $cost(Q,P)$ denote the Hausdorff distance between the convex…

We study the problem of computing a convex region with bounded area and diameter that contains the maximum number of points from a given point set $P$. We show that this problem can be solved in $O(n^6k)$ time and $O(n^3k)$ space, where $n$…

A novel 2-D method for computing the convex hull of a sufficiently dense set of n integer points is introduced. The approach employs a ranking function that avoids sorting the points directly thus reducing the overall time complexity. The…

Being robust to the presence of outliers is crucial for applying clustering algorithms in practice. In the $\textit{robust $k$-Means}$ problem (i.e., $k$-Means with outliers), the goal is to remove $z$ outliers and minimize the $k$-Means…

Chan [JACM, 2010] gave a data structure for maintaining the convex hull of a dynamic set of 3D points under insertions and deletions, supporting extreme-point queries. Subsequent refinements by Kaplan, Mulzer, Roditty, Seiferth, and Sharir…

Writing an uncomplicated, robust, and scalable three-dimensional convex hull algorithm is challenging and problematic. This includes, coplanar and collinear issues, numerical accuracy, performance, and complexity trade-offs. While there are…

Seeking the convex hull of an object is a very fundamental problem arising from various tasks. In this work, we propose two variational convex hull models using level set representation for 2-dimensional data. The first one is an exact…

The present paper is concerned with a recursive algorithm as a preprocessing step to find the convex hull of $n$ random points uniformly distributed in the plane. For such a set of points, it is shown that eliminating all but $O(\log n)$ of…

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^3$ in general position, and let $RCH(P)$ be the rectilinear convex hull of $P$. In this paper we obtain an optimal $O(n\log n)$-time and $O(n)$-space algorithm to compute $RCH(P)$. We also…

The Convex Hull algorithm is one of the most important algorithms in computational geometry, with many applications such as in computer graphics, robotics, and data mining. Despite the advances in the new algorithms in this area, it is…

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data is a critical task for maintaining model reliability and robustness. In this study, we propose a novel anomaly detection algorithm that leverages the convex hull (CH) property of a dataset by…

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…

Detecting elliptical objects from an image is a central task in robot navigation and industrial diagnosis where the detection time is always a critical issue. Existing methods are hardly applicable to these real-time scenarios of limited…

Imprecise measurements of a point set P = (p1, ..., pn) can be modelled by a family of regions F = (R1, ..., Rn), where each imprecise region Ri contains a unique point pi. A retrieval models an accurate measurement by replacing an…

High-dimensional data poses unique challenges in outlier detection process. Most of the existing algorithms fail to properly address the issues stemming from a large number of features. In particular, outlier detection algorithms perform…