A New Proof of the NP Completeness of Visual Match

  • Authors:
  • R. Rensink

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  • -

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  • A New Proof of the NP Completeness of Visual Match
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

A new proof is presented of Tsotsos'' result [1] that the VISUAL MATCH problem is NP-complete when no (high-level) constraints are imposed on the search space. Like the proof given by Tsotsos, it is based on the polynomial reduction of the NP-complete problem KNAPSACK [2] to VISUAL MATCH. Tsotsos'' proof, however, involves limited-precision real numbers, which introduces an extra degree of complexity to his treatment. The reduction of KNAPSACK to VISUAL MATCH presented here makes no use of limited-precision numbers, leading to a simpler and more direct proof of the result.