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1 // Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
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3 // http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver/
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29 // Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
30 //         keir@google.com (Keir Mierle)
31 //
32 // Purpose : Class and struct definitions for parameter and residual blocks.
33 
34 #ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_RESIDUAL_BLOCK_H_
35 #define CERES_INTERNAL_RESIDUAL_BLOCK_H_
36 
37 #include <vector>
38 
39 #include "ceres/cost_function.h"
40 #include "ceres/internal/port.h"
41 #include "ceres/internal/scoped_ptr.h"
42 #include "ceres/types.h"
43 
44 namespace ceres {
45 
46 class LossFunction;
47 
48 namespace internal {
49 
50 class ParameterBlock;
51 
52 // A term in the least squares problem. The mathematical form of each term in
53 // the overall least-squares cost function is:
54 //
55 //    1
56 //   --- loss_function( || cost_function(block1, block2, ...) ||^2  ),
57 //    2
58 //
59 // Storing the cost function and the loss function separately permits optimizing
60 // the problem with standard non-linear least techniques, without requiring a
61 // more general non-linear solver.
62 //
63 // The residual block stores pointers to but does not own the cost functions,
64 // loss functions, and parameter blocks.
65 class ResidualBlock {
66  public:
67   ResidualBlock(const CostFunction* cost_function,
68                 const LossFunction* loss_function,
69                 const vector<ParameterBlock*>& parameter_blocks);
70 
71   // Evaluates the residual term, storing the scalar cost in *cost, the residual
72   // components in *residuals, and the jacobians between the parameters and
73   // residuals in jacobians[i], in row-major order. If residuals is NULL, the
74   // residuals are not computed. If jacobians is NULL, no jacobians are
75   // computed. If jacobians[i] is NULL, then the jacobian for that parameter is
76   // not computed.
77   //
78   // Evaluate needs scratch space which must be supplied by the caller via
79   // scratch. The array should have at least NumScratchDoublesForEvaluate()
80   // space available.
81   //
82   // The return value indicates the success or failure. If the function returns
83   // false, the caller should expect the the output memory locations to have
84   // been modified.
85   //
86   // The returned cost and jacobians have had robustification and local
87   // parameterizations applied already; for example, the jacobian for a
88   // 4-dimensional quaternion parameter using the "QuaternionParameterization"
89   // is num_residuals by 3 instead of num_residuals by 4.
90   bool Evaluate(double* cost,
91                 double* residuals,
92                 double** jacobians,
93                 double* scratch) const;
94 
cost_function()95   const CostFunction* cost_function() const { return cost_function_; }
loss_function()96   const LossFunction* loss_function() const { return loss_function_; }
97 
98   // Access the parameter blocks for this residual. The array has size
99   // NumParameterBlocks().
parameter_blocks()100   ParameterBlock* const* parameter_blocks() const {
101     return parameter_blocks_.get();
102   }
103 
104   // Number of variable blocks that this residual term depends on.
NumParameterBlocks()105   int NumParameterBlocks() const {
106     return cost_function_->parameter_block_sizes().size();
107   }
108 
109   // The size of the residual vector returned by this residual function.
NumResiduals()110   int NumResiduals() const { return cost_function_->num_residuals(); }
111 
112   // The minimum amount of scratch space needed to pass to Evaluate().
113   int NumScratchDoublesForEvaluate() const;
114 
115  private:
116   const CostFunction* cost_function_;
117   const LossFunction* loss_function_;
118   scoped_array<ParameterBlock*> parameter_blocks_;
119 };
120 
121 }  // namespace internal
122 }  // namespace ceres
123 
124 #endif  // CERES_INTERNAL_RESIDUAL_BLOCK_H_
125