Fast Approximation Algorithms for Art Gallery Problems in Simple Polygons

preprint2011arXivOpen access

Abstract

We present approximation algorithms with O(n^3) processing time for the minimum vertex and edge guard problems in simple polygons. It is improved from previous O(n^4) time algorithms of Ghosh. For simple polygon, there are O(n^3) visibility regions, thus any approximation algorithm for the set covering problem with approximation ratio of log(n) can be used for the approximation of n vertex and edge guard problems with O(n^3) visibility sequence. We prove that the visibility of all points in simple polygons is guaranteed by covering O(n^2) sinks from vertices and edges : It comes to O(n^3) time bound.

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