Solving some instances of the 2-color problem

  • Authors:
  • S. Brocchi;A. Frosini;S. Rinaldi

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy;Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy;Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche ed Informatiche, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy

  • Venue:
  • DGCI'09 Proceedings of the 15th IAPR international conference on Discrete geometry for computer imagery
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In the field of Discrete Tomography, the 2-color problem consists in determining a matrix whose elements are of two different types, starting from its horizontal and vertical projections. It is known that the one color problem has a polynomial time reconstruction algorithm, while, with k ≥ 2, the k-color problem is NP-complete. Thus, the 2-color problem constitutes an interesting example of a problem just in the frontier between hard and easy problems. In this paper we define a linear time algorithm to solve a set of its instances, where some values of the horizontal and vertical projections are constant, while the others are upper bounded by a positive number proportional to the dimension of the problem. Our algorithm relies on classical studies for the solution of the one color problem.