commit | 79a554ffcf33156b81f3098e4e67821da867e2d6 | [log] [tgz] |
---|---|---|
author | Sameer Agarwal <sameeragarwal@google.com> | Fri Jan 13 11:37:27 2023 -0800 |
committer | Sameer Agarwal <sameeragarwal@google.com> | Fri Jan 13 11:37:27 2023 -0800 |
tree | 8f026bfcb7487d4e13d8b09ca69b576dcedae707 | |
parent | f1113c08abec23462182a5a8235f8ab47277ec4d [diff] |
Fix a bug in QuaternionRotatePoint. In https://ceres-solver-review.git.corp.google.com/c/ceres-solver/+/23802 the computation of the norm of a quaternion scale = 1/sqrt(q[0] * q[0] + q[1] * q[1] + q[2] * q[2] + q[3] * q[3]); was replaced by scale = 1/hypot(q[0], q[1], hypot(q[2], q[3])); while this appear to be a more accurate computation because of the use of hypot which can handle over and underflow it introduces a bug for the case where q[2] = q[3] = 0. While the hypot(q[2], q[3]) == 0 as scalars, if q[2] and q[3] are jets, then the derivative will be NaN. Which means that even though q[0] or q[1] is non-zero and the norm of the quaternion is non-zero, and the resulting derivative is finite, this way of computing the scale will produce nans in the derivative of scale. The following quaternion will replicate the problem described above. using Jet = ceres::Jet<double, 4>; std::array<Jet, 4> quaternion = {Jet(1.0, 0), Jet(0.0, 1), Jet(0.0, 2), Jet(0.0, 3)}; This CL reverts the change to QuaternionRotatePoint and adds a test for it. Thanks to Jonathan Taylor for reproducing this bug. Change-Id: I0fbbcc77d6945a38563d82efba4429f4b5278cd5
Ceres Solver is an open source C++ library for modeling and solving large, complicated optimization problems. It is a feature rich, mature and performant library which has been used in production at Google since 2010. Ceres Solver can solve two kinds of problems.
Please see ceres-solver.org for more information.