On k-Nearest Neighbor Voronoi Diagrams in the Plane

  • Authors:
  • Der-Tsai Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

The notion of Voronoi diagram for a set of N points in the Euclidean plane is generalized to the Voronoi diagram of order k and an iterative algorithm to construct the generalized diagram in 0(k2N log N) time using 0(k2(N - k)) space is presented. It is shown that the k-nearest neighbor problem and other seemingly unrelated problems can be solved efficiently with the diagram.