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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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+//
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+// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
+
+#ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_COMPRESSED_COL_SPARSE_MATRIX_UTILS_H_
+#define CERES_INTERNAL_COMPRESSED_COL_SPARSE_MATRIX_UTILS_H_
+
+#include <vector>
+#include "ceres/internal/port.h"
+
+namespace ceres {
+namespace internal {
+
+// Extract the block sparsity pattern of the scalar compressed columns
+// matrix and return it in compressed column form. The compressed
+// column form is stored in two vectors block_rows, and block_cols,
+// which correspond to the row and column arrays in a compressed
+// column sparse matrix.
+//
+// If c_ij is the block in the matrix A corresponding to row block i
+// and column block j, then it is expected that A contains at least
+// one non-zero entry corresponding to the top left entry of c_ij,
+// as that entry is used to detect the presence of a non-zero c_ij.
+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);
+
+// Given a set of blocks and a permutation of these blocks, compute
+// the corresponding "scalar" ordering, where the scalar ordering of
+// size sum(blocks).
+void BlockOrderingToScalarOrdering(const vector<int>& blocks,
+                                   const vector<int>& block_ordering,
+                                   vector<int>* scalar_ordering);
+
+}  // namespace internal
+}  // namespace ceres
+
+#endif  // CERES_INTERNAL_COMPRESSED_COL_SPARSE_MATRIX_UTILS_H_