In this paper, the computation of positiveα-hull for a set of planar closedC-continuous curves has been addressed without sampling the curves into point-sets or polylines. Positive α-hull, so far, has been computed only for a set of points, using the farthest Delaunay triangulation, a dual of farthest Voronoi diagram. However, Delaunay triangulation does not exist for a set of curved boundaries...

We investigate the higher-order Voronoi diagrams of n point sites with respect to the geodesic distance in a simple polygon with h > 0 polygonal holes and c corners. Given a set of n point sites, the korder Voronoi diagram partitions the plane into several regions such that all points in a region share the same k nearest sites. The nearest-site (first-order) geodesic Voronoi diagram has already...

The construction of a minimum-width annulus of a set of objects in the plane has useful applications in diverse fields, such as tolerancing metrology and facility location. We present a novel implementation of an algorithm for obtaining a minimum-width annulus containing a given set of disks in the plane, in case one exists. The algorithm extends previously known methods for constructing minimu...

Sparse representation based classification (SRC) has achieved state-of-the-art results on face recognition. It is hence desired to extend its power to a broader range of classification tasks in pattern recognition. SRC first encodes a query sample as a linear combination of a few atoms from a predefined dictionary. It then identifies the label by evaluating which class results in the minimum re...

We reflect upon an analogue of the cut locus, a notion classically studied in Differential Geometry, for finite graphs. The cut locus C(x) of a vertex x shall be the graph induced by the set of all vertices y with the property that no shortest path between x and z, z 6= y, contains y. The cut locus coincides with the graph induced by the vertices realizing the local maxima of the distance funct...

We introduce the Fast Marching farthest point sampling (FastFPS) approach for the progressive sampling of planar domains and curved manifolds in triangulated, point cloud or implicit form. By using Fast Marching methods2, 3, 6 for the incremental computation of distance maps across the sampling domain, we obtain a farthest point sampling technique superior to earlier point sampling principles i...