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1 // Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
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29 // Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
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31 // Class definition for the object that is responsible for applying a
32 // second order correction to the Gauss-Newton based on the ideas in
33 // BANS by Triggs et al.
34 
35 #ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_CORRECTOR_H_
36 #define CERES_INTERNAL_CORRECTOR_H_
37 
38 namespace ceres {
39 namespace internal {
40 
41 // Corrector is responsible for applying the second order correction
42 // to the residual and jacobian of a least squares problem based on a
43 // radial robust loss.
44 //
45 // The key idea here is to look at the expressions for the robustified
46 // gauss newton approximation and then take its squareroot to get the
47 // corresponding corrections to the residual and jacobian.  For the
48 // full expressions see Eq. 10 and 11 in BANS by Triggs et al.
49 class Corrector {
50  public:
51   // The constructor takes the squared norm, the value, the first and
52   // second derivatives of the LossFunction. It precalculates some of
53   // the constants that are needed to apply the correction. The
54   // correction constant alpha is constrained to be smaller than 1, if
55   // it becomes larger than 1, then it will reverse the sign of the
56   // residual and the correction. If alpha is equal to 1 will result
57   // in a divide by zero error. Thus we constrain alpha to be upper
58   // bounded by 1 - epsilon_.
59   //
60   // rho[1] needs to be positive. The constructor will crash if this
61   // condition is not met.
62   //
63   // In practical use CorrectJacobian should always be called before
64   // CorrectResidual, because the jacobian correction depends on the
65   // value of the uncorrected residual values.
66   explicit Corrector(double sq_norm, const double rho[3]);
67 
68   // residuals *= sqrt(rho[1]) / (1 - alpha)
69   void CorrectResiduals(int num_rows, double* residuals);
70 
71   // jacobian = sqrt(rho[1]) * jacobian -
72   // sqrt(rho[1]) * alpha / sq_norm * residuals residuals' * jacobian.
73   //
74   // The method assumes that the jacobian has row-major storage. It is
75   // the caller's responsibility to ensure that the pointer to
76   // jacobian is not null.
77   void CorrectJacobian(int num_rows,
78                        int num_cols,
79                        double* residuals,
80                        double* jacobian);
81 
82  private:
83   double sqrt_rho1_;
84   double residual_scaling_;
85   double alpha_sq_norm_;
86 };
87 }  // namespace internal
88 }  // namespace ceres
89 
90 #endif  // CERES_INTERNAL_CORRECTOR_H_
91