// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer // Copyright 2010, 2011, 2012 Google Inc. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE // LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR // CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF // SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS // INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN // CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) // ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE // POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. // // Author: keir@google.com (Keir Mierle) // // This fits circles to a collection of points, where the error is related to // the distance of a point from the circle. This uses auto-differentiation to // take the derivatives. // // The input format is simple text. Feed on standard in: // // x_initial y_initial r_initial // x1 y1 // x2 y2 // y3 y3 // ... // // And the result after solving will be printed to stdout: // // x y r // // There are closed form solutions [1] to this problem which you may want to // consider instead of using this one. If you already have a decent guess, Ceres // can squeeze down the last bit of error. // // [1] http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/5557-circle-fit/content/circfit.m #include <cstdio> #include <vector> #include "ceres/ceres.h" #include "gflags/gflags.h" #include "glog/logging.h" using ceres::AutoDiffCostFunction; using ceres::CauchyLoss; using ceres::CostFunction; using ceres::LossFunction; using ceres::Problem; using ceres::Solve; using ceres::Solver; DEFINE_double(robust_threshold, 0.0, "Robust loss parameter. Set to 0 for " "normal squared error (no robustification)."); // The cost for a single sample. The returned residual is related to the // distance of the point from the circle (passed in as x, y, m parameters). // // Note that the radius is parameterized as r = m^2 to constrain the radius to // positive values. class DistanceFromCircleCost { public: DistanceFromCircleCost(double xx, double yy) : xx_(xx), yy_(yy) {} template <typename T> bool operator()(const T* const x, const T* const y, const T* const m, // r = m^2 T* residual) const { // Since the radius is parameterized as m^2, unpack m to get r. T r = *m * *m; // Get the position of the sample in the circle's coordinate system. T xp = xx_ - *x; T yp = yy_ - *y; // It is tempting to use the following cost: // // residual[0] = r - sqrt(xp*xp + yp*yp); // // which is the distance of the sample from the circle. This works // reasonably well, but the sqrt() adds strong nonlinearities to the cost // function. Instead, a different cost is used, which while not strictly a // distance in the metric sense (it has units distance^2) it produces more // robust fits when there are outliers. This is because the cost surface is // more convex. residual[0] = r*r - xp*xp - yp*yp; return true; } private: // The measured x,y coordinate that should be on the circle. double xx_, yy_; }; int main(int argc, char** argv) { google::ParseCommandLineFlags(&argc, &argv, true); google::InitGoogleLogging(argv[0]); double x, y, r; if (scanf("%lg %lg %lg", &x, &y, &r) != 3) { fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't read first line.\n"); return 1; } fprintf(stderr, "Got x, y, r %lg, %lg, %lg\n", x, y, r); // Save initial values for comparison. double initial_x = x; double initial_y = y; double initial_r = r; // Parameterize r as m^2 so that it can't be negative. double m = sqrt(r); Problem problem; // Configure the loss function. LossFunction* loss = NULL; if (FLAGS_robust_threshold) { loss = new CauchyLoss(FLAGS_robust_threshold); } // Add the residuals. double xx, yy; int num_points = 0; while (scanf("%lf %lf\n", &xx, &yy) == 2) { CostFunction *cost = new AutoDiffCostFunction<DistanceFromCircleCost, 1, 1, 1, 1>( new DistanceFromCircleCost(xx, yy)); problem.AddResidualBlock(cost, loss, &x, &y, &m); num_points++; } std::cout << "Got " << num_points << " points.\n"; // Build and solve the problem. Solver::Options options; options.max_num_iterations = 500; options.linear_solver_type = ceres::DENSE_QR; Solver::Summary summary; Solve(options, &problem, &summary); // Recover r from m. r = m * m; std::cout << summary.BriefReport() << "\n"; std::cout << "x : " << initial_x << " -> " << x << "\n"; std::cout << "y : " << initial_y << " -> " << y << "\n"; std::cout << "r : " << initial_r << " -> " << r << "\n"; return 0; }