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An annulus is basically a ring-shaped region between two concentric disks on the same plane. However, it can be defined on any other geometrical shapes, for example, a rectangular annulus is defined as the area between two rectangles with one rectangle enclosing the other. The area of the annulus is the area of the region between the two shapes. An axis-parallel rectangular annulus is an annulus where the sides of the rectangles are parallel to the co-ordinate axes. This paper presents a combinatorial technique to find the largest empty axis-parallel rectangular annulus from a given set of n points and runs in \(O(n\log n)\) time. It uses two balanced binary search trees to store the points and reduces the complexity of the existing algorithm in the literature.
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Paul, R., Sarkar, A., Biswas, A. (2020). Finding the Maximum Empty Axis-Parallel Rectangular Annulus. In: Lukić, T., Barneva, R., Brimkov, V., Čomić, L., Sladoje, N. (eds) Combinatorial Image Analysis. IWCIA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12148. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51002-2_10
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