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CSCE 620: Open ProblemVoronoi Diagram of Moving Points

Asish Ghoshal

Problem 2 from The Open Problems Projecthttp://maven.smith.edu/~orourke/TOPP/

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Voronoi Diagram

• The Voronoi diagram of a set, S, of n objects in a space E is a subdivision of this space into maximal regions, so that all points within a region have the same nearest neighbor in S with regard to a general distance measure d.

• The dual graph of the Voronoi diagram is the Delaunay triangulation.

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Voronoi Diagram and Delaunay Triangulation

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Moving Points

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Moving Points

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Moving Points

• Topological changes in Voronoi diagram correspond to edge flips in Delaunay triangulation

• Number of edge flips• Number of changes that can occur in an MST

(since MST is a sub-graph of Delaunay triangulation)

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The Problem

• What is the maximum number of combinatorial changes possible in a Euclidean Voronoi diagram of a set of n points each moving along a line at unit speed in two dimensions?

• Current status: Ω(n2) and O(n3+Ɛ)• Reducing the gap between the upper and

lower bounds.

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Approach

• Voronoi diagram can be computed from Delaunay triangulation in O(n) time.

• Update the Voronoi diagram from the triangulation.• Counting the number of times that 4 points become

co-circular and 3 points become co-linear in the Delaunay triangulation.

• No of combinatorial changes = nC4 + nC3

• O(n4)• Davenport-Schinzel sequence

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Kinetic Data Structures

• Maintain an attribute of interest (e.g. convex hull) in a system of geometric objects undergoing continuous motion

• Take advantage of the coherence present in continuous motion to process a minimal number of combinatorial events.

• Process discrete events associated with continuously changing data

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• A collection of simple geometric relations that certifies the combinatorial structure of the attribute, as well as a set of rules for repairing the attribute and its certifying relations when one relation fails.

• Certificate: A certificate is one of the elementary geometric relations used in a KDS.

• Event: Failure of a KDS certificate during motion (External and Internal events).

• Event Queue: All certificates are placed in an event queue, according to their earliest failure time.

Kinetic Data Structures

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KDS for Voronoi diagramof moving points

• Back to the dual graph (Delaunay Triangulation)• Delaunay’s theorem: Triangulation of a set S on n

sites in the plane is a Delaunay triangulation if and only if every edge passes the InCircle (empty circle) test with respect to its two adjacent triangles.

• Certificate: Empty circle condition for every edge• Certificate Repair: Edge-flip in the quadrilateral

formed by the adjacent triangles of the edge. Thus change is local.

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History

• First studied by Gowda et all in 1983 followed by Atallah in 1985.

• Aonuma et all studied points on the Euclidean Plane in 1990.

O(n4) Naïve

O(g2n2(λs(g))) Daniel P. Huttenlocher (For rigidly moving point sets)

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O(ndλs(n)) Albers et all 1995

O(n2α(n)) Paul Chew (For L1 metric) 1997

O(n2 + Ɛ) Amit Weisman (2 DOF) 2004

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References

• Aonuma, H., H. Imai, et al. (1990). Maximin location of convex objects in a polygon and related dynamic Voronoi diagrams. Proceedings of the sixth annual symposium on Computational geometry. Berkley, California, United States, ACM: 225-234.

• Gowda, I. K., D. Lee, D. Naamad, A. (1983). "Dynamic Voronoi diagrams." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 29(5): 724 - 731

• Kleinberg, D. P. H. a. K. K. a. J. M. (1992). On Dynamic Voronoi Diagrams and the Minimum Hausdorff Distance for Point Sets Under Euclidean Motion in the Plane.

• L.Paul, C. (1997). "Near-quadratic bounds for the L1 Voronoi diagram of moving points." Computational Geometry 7(1-2): 73-80.

• Mikhail J, A. (1985). "Some dynamic computational geometry problems." Computers & Mathematics with Applications 11(12): 1171-1181.

• Roos, G. A. a. L. J. G. a. J. S. B. M. a. T. (1995). "Voronoi Diagrams of Moving Points." International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications 8(3): 365-380.

• Weisman, A., L. P. Chew, et al. (2004). "Voronoi diagrams of moving points in the plane and of lines in space: tight bounds for simple configurations." Inf. Process. Lett. 92(5): 245-251.

• L. Guibas. Kinetic Data Structures. In Handbook of Data Structures and Applications, D. Mehta and S. Sahni, Eds, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2004.