Initial commit of Ceres Solver.
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+// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
+// Copyright 2010, 2011, 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+// http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver/
+//
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+// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
+
+#include "bal_problem.h"
+
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <cstdlib>
+#include <string>
+#include <glog/logging.h>
+#include "ceres/rotation.h"
+
+namespace ceres {
+namespace examples {
+
+template<typename T>
+void FscanfOrDie(FILE *fptr, const char *format, T *value) {
+  int num_scanned = fscanf(fptr, format, value);
+  if (num_scanned != 1) {
+    LOG(FATAL) << "Invalid UW data file.";
+  }
+}
+
+BALProblem::BALProblem(const std::string filename, bool use_quaternions) {
+  FILE* fptr = fopen(filename.c_str(), "r");
+
+  if (!fptr) {
+    LOG(FATAL) << "Error: unable to open file " << filename;
+    return;
+  };
+
+  // This wil die horribly on invalid files. Them's the breaks.
+  FscanfOrDie(fptr, "%d", &num_cameras_);
+  FscanfOrDie(fptr, "%d", &num_points_);
+  FscanfOrDie(fptr, "%d", &num_observations_);
+
+  VLOG(1) << "Header: " << num_cameras_
+          << " " << num_points_
+          << " " << num_observations_;
+
+  point_index_ = new int[num_observations_];
+  camera_index_ = new int[num_observations_];
+  observations_ = new double[2 * num_observations_];
+
+  num_parameters_ = 9 * num_cameras_ + 3 * num_points_;
+  parameters_ = new double[num_parameters_];
+
+  for (int i = 0; i < num_observations_; ++i) {
+    FscanfOrDie(fptr, "%d", camera_index_ + i);
+    FscanfOrDie(fptr, "%d", point_index_ + i);
+    for (int j = 0; j < 2; ++j) {
+      FscanfOrDie(fptr, "%lf", observations_ + 2*i + j);
+    }
+  }
+
+  for (int i = 0; i < num_parameters_; ++i) {
+    FscanfOrDie(fptr, "%lf", parameters_ + i);
+  }
+
+  use_quaternions_ = use_quaternions;
+  if (use_quaternions) {
+    // Switch the angle-axis rotations to quaternions.
+    num_parameters_ = 10 * num_cameras_ + 3 * num_points_;
+    double* quaternion_parameters = new double[num_parameters_];
+    double* original_cursor = parameters_;
+    double* quaternion_cursor = quaternion_parameters;
+    for (int i = 0; i < num_cameras_; ++i) {
+      AngleAxisToQuaternion(original_cursor, quaternion_cursor);
+      quaternion_cursor += 4;
+      original_cursor += 3;
+      for (int j = 4; j < 10; ++j) {
+       *quaternion_cursor++ = *original_cursor++;
+      }
+    }
+    // Copy the rest of the points.
+    for (int i = 0; i < 3 * num_points_; ++i) {
+      *quaternion_cursor++ = *original_cursor++;
+    }
+    // Swap in the quaternion parameters.
+    delete []parameters_;
+    parameters_ = quaternion_parameters;
+  }
+}
+
+BALProblem::~BALProblem() {
+  delete []point_index_;
+  delete []camera_index_;
+  delete []observations_;
+  delete []parameters_;
+}
+
+}  // namespace examples
+}  // namespace ceres