I am currently working in the research group of Martin Held at the University of Salzburg. My work is in the field of straight skeletons as part of an FWF project.

Contact
Jakob-Haringer-Straße 2
5020 Salzburg
Austria [Map]

T: +43 662 8044 6326
M: geder@cs.sbg.ac.at
W: https://www.geder.at/
Tor: http://gederat2drdul6fw.onion/

PGP: 4096R/00CD562E
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orcid.org/0000-0002-4676-591X

2019

Computation and Recognition of Weighted Skeletal Structures in the Plane
Günther Eder
PhD thesis, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, July 2019
@phdthesis{Eder19, author = {Günther Eder}, title = {{C}omputation and {R}ecognition of {W}eighted {S}keletal {S}tructures in the {P}lane}, school = {University of Salzburg}, year = {2019}, address = {Salzburg, Austria}, month = {July}, url = {https://geder.at/research/2019/geder-phdthesis-short.pdf}, }
Computing the Straight Skeleton of an Orthogonal Monotone Polygon in Linear Time
Günther Eder, Martin Held, and Peter Palfrader
In Proceedings of the 35st European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2019), Utrecht, Netherlands, March 2019
We introduce a simple algorithm to construct the straight skeleton of an n-vertex orthogonal monotone polygon in optimal O(n) time and space.
@inproceedings{EdeHP19a, author = {Günther Eder and Martin Held and Peter Palfrader}, title = {{C}omputing the {S}traight {S}keleton of an {O}rthogonal {M}onotone {P}olygon in {L}inear {T}ime}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35st European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2019)}, year = {2019}, address = {Utrecht, Netherlands}, month = {March}, }

2018

Weighted Voronoi Diagrams in the L-Norm
Günther Eder and Martin Held
In Proceedings of the 7th Young Researchers Forum (CG Week 2018), Budapest, Hugary, June 2018
We study Voronoi diagrams of n weighted points in the plane in the maximum norm. We establish a tight Θ(n²) worst-case combinatorial bound for such a Voronoi diagram and introduce an incremental construction algorithm that allows its computation in O(n² log n) time.
@inproceedings{EdHe18b, author = {Günther Eder and Martin Held}, title = {{W}eighted {V}oronoi {D}iagrams in the {L}$_\infty$-{N}orm}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th Young Researchers Forum (CG Week 2018)}, year = {2018}, address = {Budapest, Hugary}, month = {June}, }
Computing Positively Weighted Straight Skeletons of Simple Polygons based on Bisector Arrangement
Günther Eder and Martin Held
Information Processing Letters, 132:28 – 32, 2018
We extend the work by Huber and Held (IJCGA 2012) on straight-skeleton computation based on motorcycle graphs to positively weighted skeletons. Resorting to a line arrangement induced by the r reflex vertices of a simple n-vertex polygon P allows to compute the weighted straight skeleton of P in O(n² + r³/k + nr log n) time and O(n + kr) space, for an arbitrary positive integer k with 1 ≤ k ≤ r.
@article{EdHe18a, author = {Günther Eder and Martin Held}, title = {{C}omputing {P}ositively {W}eighted {S}traight {S}keletons of {S}imple {P}olygons based on {B}isector {A}rrangement}, journal = {Information Processing Letters}, year = {2018}, volume = {132}, pages = {28 - 32}, issn = {0020-0190}, doi = {10.1016/j.ipl.2017.12.001}, keywords = {Computational geometry, Weighted straight skeleton, Motorcycle graph, Wavefront propagation, Line arrangement}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020019017302156}, }
Parallelized ear clipping for the triangulation and constrained delaunay triangulation of polygons
Günther Eder, Martin Held, and Peter Palfrader
Computational Geometry, 73:15–23, 2018
We present an experimental study of strategies for triangulating polygons in parallel on multi-core machines, including the parallel computation of constrained Delaunay triangulations. As usual, we call three consecutive vertices of a (planar) polygon an ear if the triangle that is spanned by them is completely inside the polygon. Extensive tests on thousands of sample polygons indicate that about 50% of vertices of most polygons form ears. This experimental result suggests that polygon-triangulation algorithms based on ear clipping might be well-suited for parallelization. We discuss three different approaches to parallelizing ear clipping, and we present a parallel edge-flipping algorithm for converting a triangulation into a constrained Delaunay triangulation. All algorithms were implemented as part of Held's FIST framework. We report on our experimental findings, which show that the most promising method achieves an average speedup of 2–3 on a quad-core processor. In any case, our new triangulation code is faster than the sequential triangulation codes Triangle (by Shewchuk) and FIST.
@article{EdeHP18a, author = {Günther Eder and Martin Held and Peter Palfrader}, title = {Parallelized ear clipping for the triangulation and constrained Delaunay triangulation of polygons}, journal = {Computational Geometry}, year = {2018}, volume = {73}, pages = {15-23}, issn = {0925-7721}, doi = {10.1016/j.comgeo.2018.01.004}, keywords = {Polygon triangulation, Constrained Delaunay triangulation (CDT), Parallelization, Multi-core, Ear-clipping}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092577211830004X}, }
Min-/max-volume roofs induced by bisector graphs of polygonal footprints of buildings
Günther Eder, Martin Held, and Peter Palfrader
International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications, 28(04):309–340, 2018
Piecewise-linear terrains (“roofs”) over simple polygons were first studied by Aichholzer et al. (J. UCS 1995) in their work on straight skeletons of polygons. We show how to construct a roof over the polygonal footprint of a building that has minimum or maximum volume among all roofs that drain water. Our algorithm for computing such a roof extends the standard plane-sweep approach known from the theory of straight skeletons by additional events. For both types of roofs our algorithm runs in 𝒪(n^3 log n) time for a simple polygon with n vertices.
@article{EdeHP18b, author = {Eder, Günther and Held, Martin and Palfrader, Peter}, title = {Min-/Max-Volume Roofs Induced by Bisector Graphs of Polygonal Footprints of Buildings}, journal = {International Journal of Computational Geometry \& Applications}, volume = {28}, number = {04}, pages = {309-340}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.1142/S0218195918500097}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218195918500097}, eprint = {https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218195918500097}, }

2017

Computing Positively Weighted Straight Skeletons of Simple Polygons Using an Induced Line Arrangement
Günther Eder and Martin Held
In Proceedings of the 27th Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry (EGC 2017), Alicante, Spain, June 2017
We extend the work by Huber and Held (IJCGA 2012) on straight-skeleton computation based on motorcycle graphs to positively weighted skeletons. Resorting to a line arrangement induced by the r reflex vertices of a simple n-vertex polygon P allows to compute the weighted straight skeleton of P in O(n² + r³/k + nr log n) time and O(n + kr) space, for an arbitrary positive integer k with 1 ≤ k ≤ r.
@inproceedings{EdHe17a, title = {{C}omputing {P}ositively {W}eighted {S}traight {S}keletons of {S}imple {P}olygons {U}sing an {I}nduced {L}ine {A}rrangement}, author = {Günther Eder and Martin Held}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry (EGC 2017)}, year = {2017}, address = {Alicante, Spain}, month = {June}, }

2016

Bisector Graphs for Min-/Max-Volume Roofs over Simple Polygons
Günther Eder, Martin Held, and Peter Palfrader
In Proceedings of the 32st European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2016), Lugano, Switzerland, March 2016
Piecewise-linear terrains (roofs'') over simple polygons were studied by Aichholzer et al. () in their work on straight skeletons of polygons. We show how to construct a roof over a simple polygon that has minimum (or maximum) volume among all roofs that drain water. Such a maximum-volume (minimum-volume) roof can have quadratic (maybe cubic, resp.) number of facets. Our algorithm for computing such a roof extends the standard wavefront propagation known from the theory of straight skeletons by two additional events. Both the minimum-volume and the maximum-volume roof of a simple polygon with n vertices can be computed in time.
@inproceedings{EdeHP16a, title = {{B}isector {G}raphs for {M}in-/{M}ax-{V}olume {R}oofs over {S}imple {P}olygons}, author = {Günther Eder and Martin Held and Peter Palfrader}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32st European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2016)}, year = {2016}, address = {Lugano, Switzerland}, month = {March}, }

2015

Experiments on Parallel Polygon Triangulation Using Ear Clipping
Günther Eder, Martin Held, and Peter Palfrader
In Proceedings of the 4th Young Researchers Forum (CG Week 2015), pages 18–19, Eindhoven, Netherlands, June 2015
We present an experimental study of different strate- gies for triangulating polygons in parallel. As usual, we call three consecutive vertices of a polygon an ear if the triangle that is spanned by them is completely in- side the polygon. Extensive tests on thousands of sam- ple polygons indicate that about 50% of the vertices of most polygons form ears, which suggests that polygon- triangulation algorithms based on ear-clipping might be well-suited for parallelization. We discuss three differ- ent on-core approaches to parallelizing ear clipping and report on our experimental findings. Extensive tests show that the most promising method achieves an av- erage speedup of about 3 on a quad-core processor.
@inproceedings{EdeHP15b, title = {{E}xperiments on {P}arallel {P}olygon {T}riangulation {U}sing {E}ar {C}lipping}, author = {Günther Eder and Martin Held and Peter Palfrader}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Young Researchers Forum (CG Week 2015)}, year = {2015}, address = {Eindhoven, Netherlands}, month = {June}, pages = {18-19}, }
Experiments on Parallel Polygon Triangulation Using Ear Clipping
Günther Eder, Martin Held, and Peter Palfrader
In Proceedings of the 31st European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2015), pages 220–223, Ljubljana, Slovenia, March 2015
We present an experimental study of different strategies for triangulating polygons in parallel. As usual, we call three consecutive vertices of a polygon an ear if the triangle that is spanned by them is completely inside of the polygon. Extensive tests on thousands of sample polygons indicate that most polygons have a linear number of ears. This experimental result suggests that polygon-triangulation algorithms based on ear clipping might be well-suited for parallelization. We discuss three different on-core approaches to parallelizing ear clipping and report on our experimental findings. Extensive tests show that the most promising method achieves a speedup by a factor of roughly on a machine with cores.
@inproceedings{EdeHP15a, title = {{E}xperiments on {P}arallel {P}olygon {T}riangulation {U}sing {E}ar {C}lipping}, author = {Günther Eder and Martin Held and Peter Palfrader}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2015)}, year = {2015}, address = {Ljubljana, Slovenia}, month = {March}, pages = {220-223}, }

Teaching

2016 WS - Einführung Unix [VP] - [Martin Held] [Plus Online]
2015 WS - Einführung Unix [VP] - [Martin Held]
2014 WS - Brücken [LV] - basics for Martin Held`s computational geometry class - [Slides]

Tools

ipe ipelet - draw bisector between two line segments - [github]
roofer - compute minimum-/ maximum-volume natural roof over simple polygon - [github]

Stuff

award - Fourth Prize - SoCG Geometric Optimization Challenge 2019 - [pdf]
report - Benchmarking Idempotent Work Stealing - [pdf]

Projects
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