@InProceedings{raichel_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.57, author = {Raichel, Benjamin and Seshadhri, C.}, title = {{Avoiding the Global Sort: A Faster Contour Tree Algorithm}}, booktitle = {32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)}, pages = {57:1--57:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-009-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {51}, editor = {Fekete, S\'{a}ndor and Lubiw, Anna}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.57}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-59490}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.57}, annote = {Keywords: contour trees, computational topology, computational geometry} }