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An Efficient Randomized Algorithm for Higher-Order Abstract Voronoi Diagrams

Authors Cecilia Bohler, Rolf Klein, Chih-Hung Liu

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  • Order-k Voronoi Diagrams
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  • Randomized Geometric Algorithms

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Abstract

Given a set of n sites in the plane, the order-k Voronoi diagram is a planar subdivision such that all points in a region share the same k nearest sites. The order-k Voronoi diagram arises for the k-nearest-neighbor problem, and there has been a lot of work for point sites in the Euclidean metric. In this paper, we study order-k Voronoi diagrams defined by an abstract bisecting curve system that satisfies several practical axioms, and thus our study covers many concrete order-k Voronoi diagrams. We propose a randomized incremental construction algorithm that runs in O(k(n-k) log^2 n +n log^3 n) steps, where O(k(n-k)) is the number of faces in the worst case. Due to those axioms, this result applies to disjoint line segments in the L_p norm, convex polygons of constant size, points in the Karlsruhe metric, and so on. In fact, this kind of run time with a polylog factor to the number of faces was only achieved for point sites in the L_1 or Euclidean metric before.

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Cecilia Bohler, Rolf Klein, and Chih-Hung Liu. An Efficient Randomized Algorithm for Higher-Order Abstract Voronoi Diagrams. In 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 51, pp. 21:1-21:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.21

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Cecilia Bohler
Rolf Klein
Chih-Hung Liu

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