Separating Colored Points with Minimum Number of Rectangles

07/21/2021
by   Navid Assadian, et al.
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In this paper we study the following problem: Given k disjoint sets of points, P_1, …, P_k on the plane, find a minimum cardinality set 𝒯 of arbitrary rectangles such that each rectangle contains points of just one set P_i but not the others. We prove the NP-hardness of this problem.

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