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
- We now compute & report the cumulative time spent performing the
following tasks as part of a line search:
- Evaluation of the univariate cost function value & gradient.
- Minimization of the interpolating polynomial.
- Total time spent performing line searches.
- This information is now reported for all minimizers, although only in
the case of a constrained problem for the TR minimizer.
- Remove LineSearch::Function abstraction in place of using
LineSearchFunction implementation directly, and remove virtual
functions from LineSearchFunction.
-- LineSearch::Function added an unnecessary level of abstraction since
the user always had to create a LineSearchFunction anyway to use a
Ceres Evaluator, and it added an unncessary virtual function call.
Change-Id: Ia4e1921d78f351ae119875aa97a3ea5e8b5d9877
1. Complete restructuring of the documentation to account for
GradientProblemSolver.
2. Update the version history to account for changes since 1.9.0.
3. Add links and document the various examples that ship with ceres.
4. Documentation for GradientProblem GradientProblemSolver.
Change-Id: If3a18f2850cbc98be1bc34435e9ea468785b8b27
The line search minimizer in Ceres does not require that the
problems that is solving is a sum of squares. Over the past
year there have been multiple requests to expose this algorithm
on its own so that it can be used to solve unconstrained
non-linear minimization problems on its own.
With this change, a new optimization problem called
GradientProblem is introduced which is basically a thin
wrapper around a user defined functor that evaluates cost
and gradients (FirstOrderFunction) and an optional LocalParameterization.
Corresponding to it, a GradientProblemSolver and its associated
options and summary structs are introduced too.
An example that uses the new API to find the minimum of Rosenbrock's
function is also added.
Change-Id: I42bf687540da25de991e9bdb00e321239244e8b4
Sameer Agarwal