On a Nearest-Neighbor Problem in Minkowski and Power Metrics

  • Authors:
  • M. L. Gavrilova

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICCS '01 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Sciences-Part I
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The paper presents an efficient algorithm for solving the nearest-neighbor problem in the plane, based on generalized Voronoi diagram construction. The input for the problem is the set of circular sites S with varying radii, the query point p and the metric (Minkowski or power) according to which the site neighboring the query point, is to be reported. The IDG/NNM software was developed for an experimental study of the problem. The experimental results demonstrate that the Voronoi diagram method outperforms the k - d tree method for all tested input site configurations. The similarity between the nearest-neighbor relationship in the Minkowski and power metrics was also established.