Cell Complexes and Digital Convexity

  • Authors:
  • Julian Webster

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Digital and Image Geometry, Advanced Lectures [based on a winter school held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in December 2000]
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract cell complexes (ACC's) were introduced by Kovalevsky as a means of solving certain connectivity paradoxes in graphtheoreticdi gital topology, and to this extent provide an improved theoretical basis for image analysis. We argue that ACC's are a very natural setting for digital convexity, to the extent that their use permits simple, almost trivial formulations of major convexity results such as Caratheodory's, Helly's and Radon's theorems. ACC's also permit the use in digital geometry of axiomaticc ombinatorial geometries such as oriented matroids. We give a brief indication of how standard convexity algorithms from computational geometry applied to the points of an ACC can form a substantial part of digital convexity algorithms.