15 research outputs found

    Largest Placement of One Convex Polygon Inside Another

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    Our aim was to detect tau tangles and beta amyloid plaques in retina for the early diagnosis of Alzheimers Disease (AD)

    Smallest Universal Covers for Families of Triangles

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    International audienceA universal cover for a family T of triangles is a convex shape that contains a congruent copy of each triangle T ∈ T. We conjecture that for any family T of triangles (of bounded area) there is a triangle that forms a universal cover for T of smallest possible area. We prove this conjecture for all families of two triangles, and for the family of triangles that fit in the unit circle

    Constrained Minkowski Sums: A Geometric Framework for Solving Interval Problems in Computational Biology Efficiently

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    In this paper, we introduce the notion of a constrained Minkowski sum: for two (finite) point-sets P, Q subset of R-2 and a set of k inequalities Ax >= b, it is defined as the point-set (P circle plus Q)(Ax >= b) = {x = p + q vertical bar p is an element of P, q is an element of Q, Ax >= b}. We show that typical interval problems from computational biology can be solved by computing a set containing the vertices of the convex hull of an appropriately constrained Minkowski sum. We provide an algorithm for computing such a set with running time O (N log N), where N = vertical bar P vertical bar + vertical bar Q vertical bar if k is fixed. For the special case (P circle plus Q)(x1 >=beta) where P and Q consist of points with integer x(1)-coordinates whose absolute values are bounded by O(N), we even achieve a linear running time O(N). We thereby obtain a linear running time for many interval problems from the literature and improve upon the best known running times for some of them. The main advantage of the presented approach is that it provides a general framework within which a broad variety of interval problems can be modeled and solved

    Largest Placement of One Convex Polygon inside Another

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    We show that the largest similar copy of a convex polygon P with m edges inside a convex polygon Q with n edges can be computed in O(mn² log n) time. We also show that the combinatorial complexity of the space of all similar copies of P inside Q is O(mn²), and that it can also be computed in O(mn² log n) time

    Mesures de regularitat per a polígons convexos

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    Al llarg d'aquesta memòria, hem plantejat possibles mesures de regularitat, totes elles justificades, per a un n-gon convex qualsevol que han donat lloc a problemes de geometria discreta i computacional. A més, hem estat capaços d'oferir algorismes per al seu càlcul de complexitat baixa (i, en alguns casos, òptima) i, per tant, realitzables. Els mètodes proposats són, en algunes ocasions, l'aplicació de resultats més generals, en d'altres, algorismes ad hoc, i, en d'altres, un estudi acurat permet transformar el problema que s'ha de resoldre en un altre problema d'optimització geomètrica que té una solució eficient coneguda

    Mesures de regularitat per a polígons convexos

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    Al llarg d'aquesta memòria, hem plantejat possibles mesures de regularitat, totes elles justificades, per a un n-gon convex qualsevol que han donat lloc a problemes de geometria discreta i computacional. A més, hem estat capaços d'oferir algorismes per al seu càlcul de complexitat baixa (i, en alguns casos, òptima) i, per tant, realitzables. Els mètodes proposats són, en algunes ocasions, l'aplicació de resultats més generals, en d'altres, algorismes ad hoc, i, en d'altres, un estudi acurat permet transformar el problema que s'ha de resoldre en un altre problema d'optimització geomètrica que té una solució eficient coneguda
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