IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Output-size sensitive algorithms for finding maximal vectors
SCG '85 Proceedings of the first annual symposium on Computational geometry
On the ultimate convex hull algorithm in practice
Pattern Recognition Letters
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We present a new planar convex hull algorithm with worst case time complexity $O(n \log H)$ where $n$ is the size of the input set and $H$ is the size of the output set, i.e. the number of vertices found to be on the hull. We also show that this algorithm is asymptotically worst case optimal on a rather realistic model of computation even if the complexity of the problem is measured in terms of input as well as output size. The algorithm relies on a variation of the divide-and-conquer paradigm which we call the ``marriage-before-conquest'''' principle and which appears to be interesting in its own right.