Title
Spiderman graph: Visibility in urban regions.
Abstract
Motivated by the inaccuracy of GPS devices in urban regions, we study the problem of computing the visibility graph of an urban region. Given a scene of buildings, where a building is represented by the set of its walls, the vertices of the graph correspond to the buildings' walls, and there is an edge between two walls if and only if they are weakly visible to each other. We present efficient algorithms for several scenes, including a sophisticated O(n2log2⁡n)-time algorithm for a scene consisting of n walls of varying heights parallel to the yz-plane, where visibility is restricted to directions whose projections on the xy-plane are horizontal. This algorithm uses persistent search trees.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.comgeo.2014.10.004
Computational Geometry
Keywords
Field
DocType
Visibility graphs,Weak visibility,Persistent search trees
Discrete mathematics,Graph,Combinatorics,Visibility,Visibility graph,Vertex (geometry),Global Positioning System,If and only if,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
48
3
0925-7721
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paz Carmi132143.14
Eran Friedman210.35
Matthew J. Katz322519.92