Fast approximation of convex hull

  • Authors:
  • Ladislav Kavan;Ivana Kolingerova;Jiri Zara

  • Affiliations:
  • FEE CTU in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic;University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic;FEE CTU in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • ACST'06 Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED international conference on Advances in computer science and technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The construction of a planar convex hull is an essential operation in computational geometry. It has been proven that the time complexity of an exact solution is Ω(N log N). In this paper, we describe an algorithm with time complexity O(N + k2), where k is parameter controlling the approximation quality. This is beneficial for applications processing a large number of points without necessity of an exact solution. A formula for upper bound of the approximation error is presented.