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Using topological sweep to extract the boundaries of regions in maps represented by region quadtrees
A variant of the plane sweep paradigm known as topological sweep is adapted to solve geometric problems involving two-dimensional regions when the underlying representation is a region quadtree. The utility of this technique is illustrated by showing how it can be used to extract the boundaries of a map in O(M) space and O(Ma(M)) time, where M is the number of quad tree blocks in the map, and a(·) is the (extremely slowly growing) inverse of Ackerman's function. The algorithm works for maps that contain multiple regions as well as holes. The algorithm makes use of active objects (in the form of regions) and an active border. It keeps track of the current position in the active border so that at each step no search is necessary. The algorithm represents a considerable improvement over a previous approach whose worst-case execution time is proportional to the product of the number of blocks in the map and the resolution of the quad tree (i.e., the maximum level of decomposition). The algorithm works for many different quadtree representations including those where the quadtree is stored in external storage
04021 Abstracts Collection -- Content-Based Retrieval
From 04.01.04 to 09.01.04, the Dagstuhl Seminar 04021 ``Content-Based Retrieval\u27\u27
was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI),
Schloss Dagstuhl.
During the seminar, several participants presented their current
research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of
the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of
seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section
describes the seminar topics and goals in general.
Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available
Querying recurrent convoys over trajectory data
National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore under International Research Centres in Singapore Funding Initiativ
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