Convex Hulls Under Uncertainty

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2017-10-01
Agarwal, Pankaj K.
Har-Peled, Sariel
Suri, Subhash
Yıldız, Hakan
Zhang, Wuzhou
We study the convex-hull problem in a probabilistic setting, motivated by the need to handle data uncertainty inherent in many applications, including sensor databases, location-based services and computer vision. In our framework, the uncertainty of each input point is described by a probability distribution over a finite number of possible locations including a null location to account for non-existence of the point. Our results include both exact and approximation algorithms for computing the probability of a query point lying inside the convex hull of the input, time-space tradeoffs for the membership queries, a connection between Tukey depth and membership queries, as well as a new notion of beta-hull that may be a useful representation of uncertain hulls.

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P. K. Agarwal, S. Har-Peled, S. Suri, H. Yıldız, and W. Zhang, “Convex Hulls Under Uncertainty,” ALGORITHMICA, vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 340–367, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/93930.