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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: keir@google.com (Keir Mierle)
+//
+// This fits circles to a collection of points, where the error is related to
+// the distance of a point from the circle. This uses auto-differentiation to
+// take the derivatives.
+//
+// The input format is simple text. Feed on standard in:
+//
+//   x_initial y_initial r_initial
+//   x1 y1
+//   x2 y2
+//   y3 y3
+//   ...
+//
+// And the result after solving will be printed to stdout:
+//
+//   x y r
+//
+// There are closed form solutions [1] to this problem which you may want to
+// consider instead of using this one. If you already have a decent guess, Ceres
+// can squeeze down the last bit of error.
+//
+//   [1] http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/5557-circle-fit/content/circfit.m
+
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include <gflags/gflags.h>
+#include "ceres/ceres.h"
+
+using ceres::AutoDiffCostFunction;
+using ceres::CauchyLoss;
+using ceres::CostFunction;
+using ceres::LossFunction;
+using ceres::Problem;
+using ceres::Solve;
+using ceres::Solver;
+
+DEFINE_double(robust_threshold, -1.0, "Robust loss parameter. Set to -1 for "
+              "normal squared error (no robustification).");
+
+// The cost for a single sample. The returned residual is related to the
+// distance of the point from the circle (passed in as x, y, m parameters).
+//
+// Note that the radius is parameterized as r = m^2 to constrain the radius to
+// positive values.
+class DistanceFromCircleCost {
+ public:
+  DistanceFromCircleCost(double xx, double yy) : xx_(xx), yy_(yy) {}
+  template <typename T> bool operator()(const T* const x,
+                                        const T* const y,
+                                        const T* const m,  // r = m^2
+                                        T* residual) const {
+    // Since the radius is parameterized as m^2, unpack m to get r.
+    T r = *m * *m;
+
+    // Get the position of the sample in the circle's coordinate system.
+    T xp = xx_ - *x;
+    T yp = yy_ - *y;
+
+    // It is tempting to use the following cost:
+    //
+    //   residual[0] = *r - sqrt(xp*xp + yp*yp);
+    //
+    // which is the distance of the sample from the circle. This works
+    // reasonably well, but the sqrt() adds strong nonlinearities to the cost
+    // function. Instead, a different cost is used, which while not strictly a
+    // distance in the metric sense (it has units distance^2) it produces more
+    // robust fits when there are outliers. This is because the cost surface is
+    // more convex.
+    residual[0] = r*r - xp*xp - yp*yp;
+    return true;
+  }
+
+ private:
+  // The measured x,y coordinate that should be on the circle.
+  double xx_, yy_;
+};
+
+int main(int argc, char** argv) {
+  google::ParseCommandLineFlags(&argc, &argv, true);
+  google::InitGoogleLogging(argv[0]);
+
+  double x, y, r;
+  if (scanf("%lg %lg %lg", &x, &y, &r) != 3) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't read first line.\n");
+    return 1;
+  }
+  fprintf(stderr, "Got x, y, r %lg, %lg, %lg\n", x, y, r);
+
+  // Save initial values for comparison.
+  double initial_x = x;
+  double initial_y = y;
+  double initial_r = r;
+
+  // Parameterize r as m^2 so that it can't be negative.
+  double m = sqrt(r);
+
+  Problem problem;
+
+  // Configure the loss function.
+  LossFunction* loss = NULL;
+  if (FLAGS_robust_threshold) {
+    loss = new CauchyLoss(FLAGS_robust_threshold);
+  }
+
+  // Add the residuals.
+  double xx, yy;
+  int num_points = 0;
+  while (scanf("%lf %lf\n", &xx, &yy) == 2) {
+    CostFunction *cost =
+        new AutoDiffCostFunction<DistanceFromCircleCost, 1, 1, 1, 1>(
+            new DistanceFromCircleCost(xx, yy));
+    problem.AddResidualBlock(cost, loss, &x, &y, &m);
+    num_points++;
+  }
+
+  std::cout << "Got " << num_points << " points.\n";
+
+  // Build and solve the problem.
+  Solver::Options options;
+  options.max_num_iterations = 500;
+  options.linear_solver_type = ceres::DENSE_QR;
+  Solver::Summary summary;
+  Solve(options, &problem, &summary);
+
+  // Recover r from m.
+  r = m * m;
+
+  std::cout << summary.BriefReport() << "\n";
+  std::cout << "x : " << initial_x << " -> " << x << "\n";
+  std::cout << "y : " << initial_y << " -> " << y << "\n";
+  std::cout << "r : " << initial_r << " -> " << r << "\n";
+  return 0;
+}