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Approximating extent measure of points
- Journal of ACM
"... We present a general technique for approximating various descriptors of the extent of a set of points in�when the dimension�is an arbitrary fixed constant. For a given extent measure�and a parameter��, it computes in time a subset�of size, with the property that. The specific applications of our tec ..."
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We present a general technique for approximating various descriptors of the extent of a set of points in�when the dimension�is an arbitrary fixed constant. For a given extent measure�and a parameter��, it computes in time a subset�of size, with the property that. The specific applications of our technique include�-approximation algorithms for (i) computing diameter, width, and smallest bounding box, ball, and cylinder of, (ii) maintaining all the previous measures for a set of moving points, and (iii) fitting spheres and cylinders through a point set. Our algorithms are considerably simpler, and faster in many cases, than previously known algorithms. 1
Nearest Neighbor Queries in a Mobile Environment
, 1999
"... Nearest neighbor queries have received much interest in recent years due to their increased importance in advanced database applications. However, past work ..."
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Nearest neighbor queries have received much interest in recent years due to their increased importance in advanced database applications. However, past work
Dynamic Planar Convex Hull Operations in Near-Logarithmic Amortized Time
- JOURNAL OF THE ACM
, 1999
"... We give a data structure that allows arbitrary insertions and deletions on a planar point set P and supports basic queries on the convex hull of P , such as membership and tangent-finding. Updates take O(log 1+" n) amortized time and queries take O(log n) time each, where n is the maximum siz ..."
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We give a data structure that allows arbitrary insertions and deletions on a planar point set P and supports basic queries on the convex hull of P , such as membership and tangent-finding. Updates take O(log 1+" n) amortized time and queries take O(log n) time each, where n is the maximum size of P and " is any fixed positive constant. For some advanced queries such as bridge-finding, both our bounds increase to O(log 3=2 n). The only previous fully dynamic solution was by Overmars and van Leeuwen from 1981 and required O(log 2 n) time per update. 1 Introduction Although the algorithmic study of convex hulls is as old as computational geometry itself, the basic problem of optimally maintaining the planar convex hull under insertions and deletions of points [30, 34] remains unsolved and has been regarded by some as one of the foremost open problems in the area [14, 26]. Besides its natural appeal, such a dynamic data structure has a wide range of applications, as it is often us...
The coverage problem in three-dimensional wireless sensor networks
- In IEEE Globecom
, 2004
"... Abstract — One of the fundamental issues in sensor networks is the coverage problem, which reflects how well a sensor network is monitored or tracked by sensors. In this paper, we formulate this problem as a decision problem, whose goal is to determine whether every point in the service area of the ..."
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Abstract — One of the fundamental issues in sensor networks is the coverage problem, which reflects how well a sensor network is monitored or tracked by sensors. In this paper, we formulate this problem as a decision problem, whose goal is to determine whether every point in the service area of the sensor network is covered by at least α sensors, where α is a given parameter and the sensing regions of sensors are modeled by balls (not necessarily of the same radius). This problem in a 2D space is solved in [1] with an efficient polynomial-time algorithm (in terms of the number of sensors). In this paper, we show that tackling this problem in a 3D space is still feasible within polynomial time. The proposed solution can be easily translated into an efficient polynomial-time distributed protocol. I.
Collision detection for deforming necklaces
, 2004
"... In this paper, we propose to study deformable necklaces — flexible chains of balls, called beads, in which only adjacent balls may intersect. Such objects can be used to model macromolecules, muscles, ropes, and other linear objects in the physical world. We exploit this linearity to develop geometr ..."
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In this paper, we propose to study deformable necklaces — flexible chains of balls, called beads, in which only adjacent balls may intersect. Such objects can be used to model macromolecules, muscles, ropes, and other linear objects in the physical world. We exploit this linearity to develop geometric structures associated with necklaces that are useful for collision detection in physical simulations. We show how these structures can be implemented efficiently and maintained under necklace deformation. In particular, we study a bounding volume hierarchy based on spheres which can be used for collision and self-collision detection of deforming and moving necklaces. As our theoretical and experimental results show, such a hierarchy is easy to compute and, more importantly, is also easy to maintain when the necklace deforms. Using this hierarchy, we achieve a collision detection upper bound of ¦¨§�©�������©� � in two dimensions and ¦¨§�©����������� � in �-dimensions, ���� �. To our knowledge, this is the first subquadratic bound proved for a collision detection algorithm using predefined hierarchies. In addition, we show that the power diagram, with the help of some additional mechanisms, can be used to
Ad-hoc Top-k Query Answering for Data Streams
, 2007
"... A top-k query retrieves the k highest scoring tuples from a data set with respect to a scoring function defined on the attributes of a tuple. The efficient evaluation of top-k queries has been an active research topic and many different instantiations of the problem, in a variety of settings, have b ..."
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A top-k query retrieves the k highest scoring tuples from a data set with respect to a scoring function defined on the attributes of a tuple. The efficient evaluation of top-k queries has been an active research topic and many different instantiations of the problem, in a variety of settings, have been studied. However, techniques developed for conventional, centralized or distributed databases are not directly applicable to highly dynamic environments and on-line applications, like data streams. Recently, techniques supporting top-k queries on data streams have been introduced. Such techniques are restrictive however, as they can only efficiently report top-k answers with respect to a pre-specified (as opposed to ad-hoc) set of queries. In this paper we introduce a novel geometric representation for the top-k query problem that allows us to raise this restriction. Utilizing notions of geometric arrangements, we design and analyze algorithms for incrementally maintaining a data set organized in an arrangement representation under streaming updates. We introduce query evaluation strategies that operate on top of an arrangement data structure that are able to guarantee efficient evaluation for ad-hoc queries. The performance of our core technique is augmented by incorporating tuple pruning strategies, minimizing the number of tuples that need to be stored and manipulated. This results in a main memory indexing technique supporting both efficient incremental updates and the evaluation of ad-hoc top-k queries. A thorough experimental study evaluates the efficiency of the proposed technique.
Projective Visual Hulls
, 2002
"... This thesis presents an image-based method for computing the visual hull of an object bounded by a smooth surface and observed by a finite number of perspective cameras. The essential structure of the visual hull is projective: to compute an exact topological (combinatorial) description of its bound ..."
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This thesis presents an image-based method for computing the visual hull of an object bounded by a smooth surface and observed by a finite number of perspective cameras. The essential structure of the visual hull is projective: to compute an exact topological (combinatorial) description of its boundary, we do not need to know the Euclidean properties of the input cameras or of the scene. Unlike most existing visual hull computation methods, ours requires only a projective reconstruction of the camera matrices, or equivalently, the epipolar geometry between each pair of cameras in the scene. Starting with a rigorous theoretical framework of oriented projective geometry and projective differential geometry, we develop a suite of algorithms to construct the visual hull and associated data structures. The thesis discusses our implementation of the algorithms, and presents experimental results on synthetic and real data sets.
Almost tight upper bounds for vertical decompositions in four dimensions
- In Proc. 42nd IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
, 2001
"... We show that the complexity of the vertical decomposition of an arrangement of n fixeddegree algebraic surfaces or surface patches in four dimensions is O(n 4+ε), for any ε> 0. This improves the best previously known upper bound for this problem by a near-linear factor, and settles a major proble ..."
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We show that the complexity of the vertical decomposition of an arrangement of n fixeddegree algebraic surfaces or surface patches in four dimensions is O(n 4+ε), for any ε> 0. This improves the best previously known upper bound for this problem by a near-linear factor, and settles a major problem in the theory of arrangements of surfaces, open since 1989. The new bound can be extended to higher dimensions, yielding the bound O(n 2d−4+ε), for any ε> 0, on the complexity of vertical decompositions in dimensions d ≥ 4. We also describe the immediate algorithmic applications of these results, which include improved algorithms for point location, range searching, ray shooting, robot motion planning, and some geometric optimization problems. 1
Kinetic Medians and kd-Trees
, 2002
"... We propose algorithms for maintaining two variants of kd- trees of a set of moving points in the plane. A pseudo kd-tree allows the number of points stored in the two children to di#er by a constant factor. ..."
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We propose algorithms for maintaining two variants of kd- trees of a set of moving points in the plane. A pseudo kd-tree allows the number of points stored in the two children to di#er by a constant factor.
On Levels in Arrangements of Curves
- Proc. 41st IEEE
, 2002
"... Analyzing the worst-case complexity of the k-level in a planar arrangement of n curves is a fundamental problem in combinatorial geometry. We give the first subquadratic upper bound (roughly O(nk 9 2 s 3 )) for curves that are graphs of polynomial functions of an arbitrary fixed degree s. Previously ..."
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Analyzing the worst-case complexity of the k-level in a planar arrangement of n curves is a fundamental problem in combinatorial geometry. We give the first subquadratic upper bound (roughly O(nk 9 2 s 3 )) for curves that are graphs of polynomial functions of an arbitrary fixed degree s. Previously, nontrivial results were known only for the case s = 1 and s = 2. We also improve the earlier bound for pseudo-parabolas (curves that pairwise intersect at most twice) to O(nk k). The proofs are simple and rely on a theorem of Tamaki and Tokuyama on cutting pseudo-parabolas into pseudo-segments, as well as a new observation for cutting pseudo-segments into pieces that can be extended to pseudo-lines. We mention applications to parametric and kinetic minimum spanning trees.
