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Motivated by the desire to cope with data imprecision, we study methods for taking advantage of preliminary information about point sets in order to speed up the computation of certain structures associated with them. In particular, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Esther Ezra , Wolfgang Mulzer

Prune-and-search is an important paradigm for solving many important geometric problems. We show that the general prune-and-search technique can be implemented where the objects are given in read-only memory. As examples we consider…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-12-24 Minati De , Subhas C. Nandy , Sasanka Roy

Measuring the performance of a classifier is a vital task in machine learning. The running time of an algorithm that computes the measure plays a very small role in an offline setting, for example, when the classifier is being developed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Nikolaj Tatti

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

We present an efficient dynamic data structure that supports geodesic nearest neighbor queries for a set of point sites $S$ in a static simple polygon $P$. Our data structure allows us to insert a new site in $S$, delete a site from $S$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Lars Arge , Frank Staals

Recently, motivated by the rapid increase of the data size in various applications, Monemizadeh [APPROX'23] and Driemel, Monemizadeh, Oh, Staals, and Woodruff [SoCG'25] studied geometric problems in the setting where the only access to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-24 T. Schibler , J. Xue , J. Zhu

We introduce a new dynamic data structure for maintaining the strongly connected components (SCCs) of a directed graph (digraph) under edge deletions, so as to answer a rich repertoire of connectivity queries. Our main technical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Loukas Georgiadis , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Sebastian Krinninger , Nikos Parotsidis

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

An incremental approach for computation of convex hull for data points in two-dimensions is presented. The algorithm is not output-sensitive and costs a time that is linear in the size of data points at input. Graham's scan is applied only…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Debashis Mukherjee

We describe a new data structure for dynamic nearest neighbor queries in the plane with respect to a general family of distance functions. These include $L_p$-norms and additively weighted Euclidean distances. Our data structure supports…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Haim Kaplan , Wolfgang Mulzer , Liam Roditty , Paul Seiferth , Micha Sharir

$\def\DD{{{\bf \delta}}}\def\CH{{\mathop{\mathrm{ConvexHull}}}}\newcommand{\LL}{{\cal {L}}} \newcommand{\ZZ}{\mathbb{Z}} $ Given a convex body $C$ in the plane, its discrete hull is $C^0 = \CH( C \cap \LL )$, where $\LL = \ZZ \times \ZZ$ is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Sariel Har-Peled

We envision programmable matter as a system of nano-scale agents (called particles) with very limited computational capabilities that move and compute collectively to achieve a desired goal. We use the geometric amoebot model as our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Joshua J. Daymude , Robert Gmyr , Kristian Hinnenthal , Irina Kostitsyna , Christian Scheideler , Andréa W. Richa

UAVs are increasingly becoming vital tools in various wireless communication applications including internet of things (IoT) and sensor networks, thanks to their rapid and agile non-terrestrial mobility. Despite recent research, planning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Pei-Fa Sun , Yujae Song , Kang-Yu Gao , Yu-Kai Wang , Changjun Zhou , Sang-Woon Jeon , Jun Zhang

CAT(0) metric spaces and hyperbolic spaces play an important role in combinatorial and geometric group theory. In this paper, we present efficient algorithms for distance problems in CAT(0) planar complexes. First of all, we present an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Daniela Maftuleac

In the noisy primitives model, each primitive comparison performed by an algorithm, e.g., testing whether one value is greater than another, returns the incorrect answer with random, independent probability p < 1/2 and otherwise returns a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Michael T. Goodrich , Vinesh Sridhar

We show an algorithm for dynamic maintenance of connectivity information in an undirected planar graph subject to edge deletions. Our algorithm may answer connectivity queries of the form `Are vertices $u$ and $v$ connected with a path?' in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Jakub Łącki , Piotr Sankowski

Tree embedding has been a fundamental method in algorithm design with wide applications. We focus on the efficiency of building tree embedding in various computational settings under high-dimensional Euclidean $\mathbb{R}^d$. We devise a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Gramoz Goranci , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Peter Kiss , Qihao Kong , Yi Qian , Eva Szilagyi

We present a general paradigm for dynamic 3D reconstruction from multiple independent and uncontrolled image sources having arbitrary temporal sampling density and distribution. Our graph-theoretic formulation models the Spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Xiangyu Xu , Enrique Dunn

Given a set $S$ of $n$ points in the Euclidean plane, the two-center problem is to find two congruent disks of smallest radius whose union covers all points of $S$. Previously, Eppstein [SODA'97] gave a randomized algorithm of $O(n\log^2n)$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Haitao Wang

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