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+// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
+// Copyright 2013 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+// http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver/
+//
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+//
+// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
+
+#include "ceres/compressed_col_sparse_matrix_utils.h"
+
+#include <vector>
+#include "ceres/internal/port.h"
+#include "glog/logging.h"
+
+namespace ceres {
+namespace internal {
+
+void CompressedColumnScalarMatrixToBlockMatrix(const int* scalar_rows,
+                                               const int* scalar_cols,
+                                               const vector<int>& row_blocks,
+                                               const vector<int>& col_blocks,
+                                               vector<int>* block_rows,
+                                               vector<int>* block_cols) {
+  CHECK_NOTNULL(block_rows)->clear();
+  CHECK_NOTNULL(block_cols)->clear();
+  const int num_row_blocks = row_blocks.size();
+  const int num_col_blocks = col_blocks.size();
+
+  vector<int> row_block_starts(num_row_blocks);
+  for (int i = 0, cursor = 0; i < num_row_blocks; ++i) {
+    row_block_starts[i] = cursor;
+    cursor += row_blocks[i];
+  }
+
+  // This loop extracts the block sparsity of the scalar sparse matrix
+  // It does so by iterating over the columns, but only considering
+  // the columns corresponding to the first element of each column
+  // block. Within each column, the inner loop iterates over the rows,
+  // and detects the presence of a row block by checking for the
+  // presence of a non-zero entry corresponding to its first element.
+  block_cols->push_back(0);
+  int c = 0;
+  for (int col_block = 0; col_block < num_col_blocks; ++col_block) {
+    int column_size = 0;
+    for (int idx = scalar_cols[c]; idx < scalar_cols[c + 1]; ++idx) {
+      vector<int>::const_iterator it = lower_bound(row_block_starts.begin(),
+                                                   row_block_starts.end(),
+                                                   scalar_rows[idx]);
+      // Since we are using lower_bound, it will return the row id
+      // where the row block starts. For everything but the first row
+      // of the block, where these values will be the same, we can
+      // skip, as we only need the first row to detect the presence of
+      // the block.
+      //
+      // For rows all but the first row in the last row block,
+      // lower_bound will return row_block_starts.end(), but those can
+      // be skipped like the rows in other row blocks too.
+      if (it == row_block_starts.end() || *it != scalar_rows[idx]) {
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      block_rows->push_back(it - row_block_starts.begin());
+      ++column_size;
+    }
+    block_cols->push_back(block_cols->back() + column_size);
+    c += col_blocks[col_block];
+  }
+}
+
+void BlockOrderingToScalarOrdering(const vector<int>& blocks,
+                                   const vector<int>& block_ordering,
+                                   vector<int>* scalar_ordering) {
+  CHECK_EQ(blocks.size(), block_ordering.size());
+  const int num_blocks = blocks.size();
+
+  // block_starts = [0, block1, block1 + block2 ..]
+  vector<int> block_starts(num_blocks);
+  for (int i = 0, cursor = 0; i < num_blocks ; ++i) {
+    block_starts[i] = cursor;
+    cursor += blocks[i];
+  }
+
+  scalar_ordering->resize(block_starts.back() + blocks.back());
+  int cursor = 0;
+  for (int i = 0; i < num_blocks; ++i) {
+    const int block_id = block_ordering[i];
+    const int block_size = blocks[block_id];
+    int block_position = block_starts[block_id];
+    for (int j = 0; j < block_size; ++j) {
+      (*scalar_ordering)[cursor++] = block_position++;
+    }
+  }
+}
+}  // namespace internal
+}  // namespace ceres