Efficient piecewise-linear function approximation using the uniform metric: (preliminary version)

  • Authors:
  • Michael T. Goodrich

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins Univ., Balitmore, MD

  • Venue:
  • SCG '94 Proceedings of the tenth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

We give an O(nlogn)-time method for finding a best k-link piecewise-linear function approximating an n-point planar data set using the well-known uniform metric to measure the error, &egr;≥0, of the approximation. Our method is based upon new characterizations of such functions, which we exploit to design an efficient algorithm using a plane sweep in “&egr; space” followed by several applications of the parametric searching technique. The previous best running time for this problem was O(n2).