Ceres Solver was using an old forked version of FixedArray,
now that we are using absl, we can use the official version
that ships with it.
Change-Id: Ic88d7f6e8a49b928d611f7cbb04172452b322b01
1. Add abseil-cpp as a submodule. We are tracking the latest LTS
release, which is lts_2024_01_16.
2. Replace glog/gflags with absl::log and absl::flags.
3. Remove miniglog
4. Also take a whack at making the bazel build work with
abseil-cpp and gtest.
There are a number of TODOs in this CL that still need to be resolved.
Change-Id: I39355ed7d61375be4ebcbc8596d9cc70acc1c678
1. Add a version history
2. Update copyright years across the code base
3. Run format_all.sh
4. Update version strings from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 in the docs and
elsewhere.
Change-Id: I46d8d479d54bd6002d532785e67342106e73c9ac
Use same instance of a PRNG throughout by passing it to methods and
functions as an argument to generate random numbers without breaking the
sequence.
Change-Id: Ib024bbc1ea2d14e4b9afb71857856a5fb77b1667
1. Remove an unused variable from block_sparse_matrix.cc
2. Add explicit types to the distributions to get around
-Wctad-maybe-unsupported
Change-Id: Ib7d606fbfe2b93ba4fce408f38ee4f7626b74ff0
virtual can be ambiguous. Applied changes correspond to clang-tidy fixes
stemming from the modernize-use-override check.
Change-Id: I973afd4680a5df587419777504aeb94467196b89
Manifolds are now part of the public API and co-exist
with LocalParameterizations.
1. Add Manifolds to the Problem API.
a. AddParameterBlock(double*, int, Manifold*)
b. SetParameterization(double*, Manifold*)
b. GetManifold(const double*)
c. HasManifold(const double*)
2. Internally Ceres now only uses Manifolds. When the user uses
a LocalParameterization, it is wrapped in a ManifoldAdapter.
3. To preserve the API semantics while keeping the internals clean
we need a new map in ProblemImpl which stores the association
between parameter blocks and local parameterizations. This
is temporary, it will go away once this transition is complete.
4. There are NO algorithmic changes, as in we are not using
any of the expanded interface of the Manifold objects yet.
That will come later.
5. All tests that use LocalParameterization have been duplicated
to use Manifolds, and when this transition is complete the
LocalParameterization based tests will be deleted.
6. Public documentation for the API has been updated. Deprecation
notices to the documentation as well as C++ annotations will come
later.
7. Similar changes have been made to GradientProblem.
Change-Id: I8e03c8ced6e141876ef3eca5740c113afa788f0c
- Change formatting standard to Cpp11. Main difference is not having
the space between two closing >> for nested templates. We don't
choose c++14, because older versions of clang-format (version 9
and earlier) don't know this value yet, and it doesn't make a
difference in the formatting.
- Apply clang-format to all (non generated) internal source files.
- Manually fix some code sections (clang-format on/off) and c-strings
- Exclude some embedded external files with very different formatting
(gtest/gmock)
- Add script to format all source files
Change-Id: Ic6cea41575ad6e37c9e136dbce176b0d505dc44d
Using Ridders' method gives orders of magnitude more accuracy compared
to central differences. This will make things slower, but this is
primarily a testing/debugging feature and the speed hit is not a
concern. This should also reduce the false positive rates when users
enable check_gradients. This is reflected the increased sensitivity of
the tests for GradientChecker.
https://github.com/ceres-solver/ceres-solver/issues/554
Change-Id: I6b871c72df55be1c31175ba062cf3c1e94e4b662
This commit includes the following:
- Changes to CMake to make it safer to see which compiler flags are supported,
so this way we do not need to worry about version checks in CMake.
- Unix platforms (which includes both Linux and Apple as far as i can tell)
will now enable -Wmissing-declarations warning for the whole Ceres.
- Changes in all sources to solve missing declaration warning. In most cases
it was either matter of using static qualifier or moving functions to an
anonymous namespace.
In one case the function got removed, since it seems to be unused.
Additionally, in slam examples there was a non-inlined function implementation
in a header, which is a direct way to cause linking errors if other .cc file
will include that helper header.
- All third party sources (which is currently only gmock) has this extra
paranoid warning disabled.
This warning is important in the following cases:
- Detect helper functions which are not needed anymore.
- Avoid unnoticed pollution of namespace.
- Avoid bad level calls.
- Avoid missing updates in header files after changes in implementation file.
- Helps integrating Ceres into software where paranoid warnings are important.
Change-Id: I9b1044aced3910d8c6b2356cfe2bf57f3c8c58db
This PR changes the implementation of the current fixed array to the
abseil one, which has proper allocator support.
Some minor changes are made to make the fixed array implementation
self-contained (no dependent to abseil):
- No address sanitizer support (red zones, etc.)
- Remove of noexecpt specified for copy and move constructor.
- Remove of 'at' function as Ceres does not use exceptions.
- Use std::tuple instead of absl::CompressedTuple as it uses the abseil
utility header which includes a whole bunch of other headers.
Change-Id: I43445b42c37f944509b5353a587d0efce74cbccf
Any result of an arithmetic operation on floating-point matrices
should never be checked for strict equality with some expected
value, due to limited floating point precision on different machines.
This fixes some occurences of exact checks in the gradient checker
unit test that were causing problems on some platforms.
Change-Id: I48e804c9c705dc485ce74ddfe51037d4957c8fcb
Change the Ceres gradient checking API to make is useful for
unit testing, clean up code duplication and fix interaction between
gradient checking and local parameterizations.
There were two gradient checking implementations, one being used
when using the check_gradients flag in the Solver, the other
being a standalone class. The standalone version was restricted
to cost functions with fixed parameter sizes at compile time, which
is being lifted here. This enables it to be used inside the
GradientCheckingCostFunction as well.
In addition, this installs new hooks in the Solver to ensure
that Solve will fail if any incorrect gradients are detected. This
way, you can set the check_gradient flags to true and detect
errors in an automated way, instead of just printing error information
to the log. The error log is now also returned in the Solver summary
instead of being printed directly. The user can then decide what to
do with it. The existing hooks for user callbacks are used for
this purpose to keep the internal API changes minimal and non-invasive.
The last and biggest change is the way the the interaction between
local parameterizations and the gradient checker works. Before,
local parameterizations would be ignored by the checker. However,
if a cost function does not compute its Jacobian along the null
space of the local parameterization, this wil not have any effect
on the solver, but would result in a gradient checker error.
With this change, the Jacobians are multiplied by the Jacobians
of the respective local parameterization and thus being compared
in the tangent space only.
The typical use case for this are quaternion parameters, where
a cost function will typically assume that the quaternion is
always normalized, skipping the correct computation of the Jacobian
along the normal to save computation cost.
Change-Id: I5e1bb97b8a899436cea25101efe5011b0bb13282
Since Ceres is moving to using GitHub for issues, and the Google
Code URL in the current copyright header will soon become invalid,
update all the headers.
Change-Id: I1fce70375d1bcf098591f07b4d8f01a5c1e0789c
For historical reasons we had a "using namespace std;" in port.h. This
is generally a bad idea. So removing it and along the way doing a bunch
of cpplint cleanup.
Change-Id: Ia125601a55ae62695e247fb0250df4c6f86c46c6
The GradientChecker is a utility class written by
William Rucklidge that can be used to check that the
derivatives returned by a cost function match those
returned by numerically differentiating the residuals
returned by the same cost function.
This is useful when developing CostFunction objects
and testing them before plugging them into an optimization
problem.
Change-Id: Ic60f859b48b6246406448555d25556784e097b81
Sameer Agarwal