quadtree
nounEtymology From quad- + tree, coined by Raphael Finkel and J. L. Bentley in 1974.
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A treelike data structure each of whose nodes has up to four children, most often used to partition a two-dimensional space by recursively subdividing it.
- H.265 employs a more flexible quadtree structure that refines motion search.2015, Benny Bing, Next-Generation Video Coding and Streaming, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 127:
- Related terms
- binary tree, octree