LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator.java

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package com.irurueta.numerical.polynomials.estimators;

import com.irurueta.numerical.LockedException;
import com.irurueta.numerical.NotReadyException;
import com.irurueta.numerical.polynomials.Polynomial;
import com.irurueta.numerical.robust.LMedSRobustEstimator;
import com.irurueta.numerical.robust.LMedSRobustEstimatorListener;
import com.irurueta.numerical.robust.RobustEstimator;
import com.irurueta.numerical.robust.RobustEstimatorException;
import com.irurueta.numerical.robust.RobustEstimatorMethod;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Finds the best polynomial using LMedS algorithm.
 */
public class LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator extends PolynomialRobustEstimator {

    /**
     * Default value to be used for stop threshold. Stop threshold can be used
     * to keep the algorithm iterating in case that best estimated threshold
     * using median of residuals is not small enough. Once a solutions is found
     * that generates a threshold below this value, the algorithm will stop.
     * Threshold will be used to compare either algebraic or geometric distance
     * of estimated polynomial respect each provided evaluation.
     */
    public static final double DEFAULT_STOP_THRESHOLD = 1e-6;

    /**
     * Minimum value that can be set as stop threshold.
     * Threshold must be strictly greater than 0.0.
     */
    public static final double MIN_STOP_THRESHOLD = 0.0;

    /**
     * Threshold to be used to keep the algorithm iterating in case that best
     * estimated threshold using median of residuals is not small enough. Once
     * a solution is found that generates a threshold below this value, the
     * algorithm will stop.
     * The stop threshold can be used to prevent the LMedS algorithm iterating
     * too many times in case where samples have a very similar accuracy.
     * For instance, in cases where proportion of outliers is very small (close
     * to 0%), and samples are very accurate (i.e. 1e-6), the algorithm would
     * iterate for a long time trying to find the best solution when indeed
     * there is no need to do that if a reasonable threshold has already been
     * reached.
     * Because of this behaviour the sopt threshold can be set to a value much
     * lower than the one typically used in RANSAC, and yet the algorithm could
     * still produce even smaller thresholds in estimated results.
     */
    private double stopThreshold;

    /**
     * Constructor.
     */
    public LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator() {
        super();
        stopThreshold = DEFAULT_STOP_THRESHOLD;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param degree degree of polynomial to be estimated.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if provided degree is less than 1.
     */
    public LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator(final int degree) {
        super(degree);
        stopThreshold = DEFAULT_STOP_THRESHOLD;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param evaluations collections of polynomial evaluations.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if provided number of evaluations is
     *                                  less than the required minimum.
     */
    public LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator(final List<PolynomialEvaluation> evaluations) {
        super(evaluations);
        stopThreshold = DEFAULT_STOP_THRESHOLD;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param listener listener to be notified of events such as when estimation
     *                 starts, ends or its progress significantly changes.
     */
    public LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator(final PolynomialRobustEstimatorListener listener) {
        super(listener);
        stopThreshold = DEFAULT_STOP_THRESHOLD;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param degree      degree of polynomial to be estimated.
     * @param evaluations collection of polynomial evaluations.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if provided degree is less than 1 or if
     *                                  provided number of evaluations is less than the required minimum for
     *                                  provided degree.
     */
    public LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator(final int degree, final List<PolynomialEvaluation> evaluations) {
        super(degree, evaluations);
        stopThreshold = DEFAULT_STOP_THRESHOLD;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param degree   degree of polynomial to be estimated.
     * @param listener listener to be notified of events such as when estimation
     *                 starts, ends or its progress significantly changes.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if provided degree is less than 1.
     */
    public LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator(final int degree, final PolynomialRobustEstimatorListener listener) {
        super(degree, listener);
        stopThreshold = DEFAULT_STOP_THRESHOLD;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param evaluations collection of polynomial evaluations.
     * @param listener    listener to be notified of events such as when estimation
     *                    starts, ends or its progress significantly changes.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if provided number of evaluations is
     *                                  less than the required minimum.
     */
    public LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator(
            final List<PolynomialEvaluation> evaluations, final PolynomialRobustEstimatorListener listener) {
        super(evaluations, listener);
        stopThreshold = DEFAULT_STOP_THRESHOLD;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param degree      degree of polynomial to be estimated.
     * @param evaluations collection of polynomial evaluations.
     * @param listener    listener to be notified of events such as when estimation
     *                    starts, ends or its progress significantly changes.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if provided degree is less than 1 or if
     *                                  provided number of evaluations is less than the required minimum for
     *                                  provided degree.
     */
    public LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator(
            final int degree, final List<PolynomialEvaluation> evaluations,
            final PolynomialRobustEstimatorListener listener) {
        super(degree, evaluations, listener);
        stopThreshold = DEFAULT_STOP_THRESHOLD;
    }

    /**
     * Returns threshold to be used to keep the algorithm iterating in case that
     * best estimated threshold using median of residuals is not small enough.
     * Once a solution is found that generates a threshold below this value, the
     * algorithm will stop.
     * The stop threshold can be used to prevent the LMedS algorithm iterating
     * too many times in cases where samples have a very similar accuracy.
     * For instance, in cases where proportion of outliers is very small (close
     * to 0%), and samples are very accurate (i.e. 1e-6), the algorithm would
     * iterate for a long time trying to find the best solution when indeed
     * there is no need to do that if a reasonable threshold has already been
     * reached.
     * Because of this behaviour the stop threshold can be set to a value much
     * lower than the one typically used in RANSAC, and yet the algorithm could
     * still produce even smaller thresholds in estimated results.
     *
     * @return stop threshold to stop the algorithm prematurely when a certain
     * accuracy has been reached.
     */
    public double getStopThreshold() {
        return stopThreshold;
    }

    /**
     * Sets threshold to be used to keep the algorithm iterating in case that
     * best estimated threshold using median of residuals is not small enough.
     * Once a solution is found that generates a threshold below this value, the
     * algorithm will stop.
     * The stop threshold can be used to prevent the LMedS algorithm iterating
     * too many times in cases where samples have a very similar accuracy.
     * For instance, in cases where proportion of outliers is very small (close
     * to 0%), and samples are very accurate (i.e. 1e-6), the algorithm would
     * iterate for a long time trying to find the best solution when indeed
     * there is no need to do that if a reasonable threshold has already been
     * reached.
     * Because of this behaviour the stop threshold can be set to a value much
     * lower than the one typically used in RANSAC, and yet the algorithm could
     * still produce even smaller thresholds in estimated results
     *
     * @param stopThreshold stop threshold to stop the algorithm prematurely
     *                      when a certain accuracy has been reached
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if provided value is zero or negative
     * @throws LockedException          if robust estimator is locked because an
     *                                  estimation is already in progress
     */
    public void setStopThreshold(final double stopThreshold) throws LockedException {
        if (isLocked()) {
            throw new LockedException();
        }
        if (stopThreshold <= MIN_STOP_THRESHOLD) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException();
        }
        this.stopThreshold = stopThreshold;
    }

    /**
     * Estimates polynomial.
     *
     * @return estimated polynomial.
     * @throws LockedException          if robust estimator is locked because an
     *                                  estimation is already in progress.
     * @throws NotReadyException        if provided input data is not enough to start
     *                                  the estimation.
     * @throws RobustEstimatorException if estimation fails for any other reason
     *                                  (i.e. numerical instability, no solution available, etc).
     */
    @Override
    public Polynomial estimate() throws LockedException, NotReadyException, RobustEstimatorException {
        if (isLocked()) {
            throw new LockedException();
        }
        if (!isReady()) {
            throw new NotReadyException();
        }

        final LMedSRobustEstimator<Polynomial> innerEstimator =
                new LMedSRobustEstimator<>(new LMedSRobustEstimatorListener<>() {

                    // subset of evaluations picked on each iteration
                    private final List<PolynomialEvaluation> subsetEvaluations = new ArrayList<>();

                    @Override
                    public int getTotalSamples() {
                        return evaluations.size();
                    }

                    @Override
                    public int getSubsetSize() {
                        return polynomialEstimator.getMinNumberOfEvaluations();
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void estimatePreliminarSolutions(
                            final int[] samplesIndices, final List<Polynomial> solutions) {
                        subsetEvaluations.clear();
                        for (final var samplesIndex : samplesIndices) {
                            subsetEvaluations.add(evaluations.get(samplesIndex));
                        }

                        try {
                            polynomialEstimator.setLMSESolutionAllowed(false);
                            polynomialEstimator.setEvaluations(subsetEvaluations);

                            final var polynomial = polynomialEstimator.estimate();
                            solutions.add(polynomial);
                        } catch (final Exception e) {
                            // if anything fails, no solution is added
                        }
                    }

                    @Override
                    public double computeResidual(final Polynomial currentEstimation, final int i) {
                        final var eval = evaluations.get(i);
                        return getDistance(eval, currentEstimation);
                    }

                    @Override
                    public boolean isReady() {
                        return LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator.this.isReady();
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onEstimateStart(final RobustEstimator<Polynomial> estimator) {
                        if (listener != null) {
                            listener.onEstimateStart(LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator.this);
                        }
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onEstimateEnd(final RobustEstimator<Polynomial> estimator) {
                        if (listener != null) {
                            listener.onEstimateEnd(LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator.this);
                        }
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onEstimateNextIteration(
                            final RobustEstimator<Polynomial> estimator, final int iteration) {
                        if (listener != null) {
                            listener.onEstimateNextIteration(LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator.this, iteration);
                        }
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onEstimateProgressChange(
                            final RobustEstimator<Polynomial> estimator, final float progress) {
                        if (listener != null) {
                            listener.onEstimateProgressChange(LMedSPolynomialRobustEstimator.this, progress);
                        }
                    }
                });

        try {
            locked = true;
            innerEstimator.setConfidence(confidence);
            innerEstimator.setMaxIterations(maxIterations);
            innerEstimator.setProgressDelta(progressDelta);
            innerEstimator.setStopThreshold(stopThreshold);
            return innerEstimator.estimate();
        } finally {
            locked = false;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns method being used for robust estimation.
     *
     * @return method being used for robust estimation.
     */
    @Override
    public RobustEstimatorMethod getMethod() {
        return RobustEstimatorMethod.LMEDS;
    }
}