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#include "pointmatcher/PointMatcher.h"
#include "pointmatcher/IO.h"
#include <cassert>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <boost/format.hpp>
#include <boost/filesystem/path.hpp>
#include <boost/filesystem/operations.hpp>
#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>

using namespace std;
using namespace PointMatcherSupport;

void validateArgs(int argc, char *argv[]);
void setupArgs(int argc, char *argv[], unsigned int& startId, unsigned int& endId, string& extension);
vector<string> loadYamlFile(string listFileName);

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        validateArgs(argc, argv);

        typedef PointMatcher<float> PM;
        typedef PointMatcherIO<float> PMIO;
        typedef PM::TransformationParameters TP;
        typedef PM::DataPoints DP;

        // Process arguments
        PMIO::FileInfoVector list(argv[1]);
        const unsigned totalPointCount = boost::lexical_cast<unsigned>(argv[2]);        
        string outputFileName(argv[3]);
        
        
        setLogger(PM::get().LoggerRegistrar.create("FileLogger"));
        
        PM::DataPoints mapCloud;

        PM::DataPoints lastCloud, newCloud;
        TP T = TP::Identity(4,4);

        // Define transformation chain
        PM::Transformation* transformation;
        transformation = PM::get().REG(Transformation).create("RigidTransformation");

        // This filter will remove a sphere of 1 m radius. Easy way to remove the sensor self-scanning.
        PM::DataPointsFilter* removeScanner(
                PM::get().DataPointsFilterRegistrar.create(
                        "MinDistDataPointsFilter", 
                        map_list_of
                                ("minDist", "1.0")
                )
        );
        
        // This filter will randomly remove 35% of the points.
        PM::DataPointsFilter* randSubsample(
                PM::get().DataPointsFilterRegistrar.create(
                        "RandomSamplingDataPointsFilter", 
                        map_list_of
                                ("prob", toParam(0.65))
                )
        );

        // For a complete description of filter, see 
        // https://github.com/ethz-asl/libpointmatcher/blob/master/doc/Datafilters.md
        PM::DataPointsFilter* normalFilter(
                PM::get().DataPointsFilterRegistrar.create(
                        "SurfaceNormalDataPointsFilter",
                        map_list_of
                                ("knn", toParam(10))
                                ("epsilon", toParam(5)) 
                                ("keepNormals",toParam(1))
                                ("keepDensities",toParam(0))
                )
        );

        PM::DataPointsFilter* densityFilter(
                PM::get().DataPointsFilterRegistrar.create(
                        "SurfaceNormalDataPointsFilter",
                        map_list_of
                                ("knn", "10")
                                ("epsilon", "5") 
                                ("keepNormals","0")
                                ("keepDensities","1")
                )
        );
        
        PM::DataPointsFilter* observationDirectionFilter(
                PM::get().DataPointsFilterRegistrar.create(
                        "ObservationDirectionDataPointsFilter"
                )
        );
        
        PM::DataPointsFilter* orientNormalFilter(
                PM::get().DataPointsFilterRegistrar.create(
                        "OrientNormalsDataPointsFilter",
                        map_list_of
                                ("towardCenter", "1")
                )
        );
        
        PM::DataPointsFilter* uniformSubsample(
                PM::get().DataPointsFilterRegistrar.create(
                        "MaxDensityDataPointsFilter",
                        map_list_of
                                ("maxDensity", toParam(30))
                )
        );
        
        PM::DataPointsFilter* shadowFilter(
                PM::get().DataPointsFilterRegistrar.create(
                        "ShadowDataPointsFilter"
                )
        );

        for(unsigned i=0; i < list.size(); i++)
        {
                cout << endl << "-----------------------------" << endl;
                cout << "Loading " << list[i].readingFileName;
                newCloud = DP::load(list[i].readingFileName);

                cout << " found " << newCloud.getNbPoints() << " points. " << endl;

        
                if(list[i].groundTruthTransformation.rows() != 0)
                        T = list[i].groundTruthTransformation;
                else
                {
                        cout << "ERROR: the field gTXX (ground truth) is required" << endl;
                        abort();
                }

                PM::Parameters params;
                
                // Remove the scanner
                newCloud = removeScanner->filter(newCloud);


                // Accelerate the process and dissolve lines
                newCloud = randSubsample->filter(newCloud);
                
                // Build filter to remove shadow points and down-sample
                newCloud = normalFilter->filter(newCloud);
                newCloud = observationDirectionFilter->filter(newCloud);
                newCloud = orientNormalFilter->filter(newCloud);
                newCloud = shadowFilter->filter(newCloud);

                // Transforme pointCloud
                cout << "Transformation matrix: " << endl << T << endl;
                newCloud = transformation->compute(newCloud, T);

                if(i==0)
                {
                        mapCloud = newCloud;
                }
                else
                {
                        mapCloud.concatenate(newCloud);
                        
                        // Control point cloud size
                        double probToKeep = totalPointCount/(double)mapCloud.features.cols();
                        if(probToKeep < 1)
                        {
                                
                                mapCloud = densityFilter->filter(mapCloud);
                                mapCloud = uniformSubsample->filter(mapCloud);

                                probToKeep = totalPointCount/(double)mapCloud.features.cols();
                                
                                if(probToKeep < 1)
                                {
                                        cout << "Randomly keep " << probToKeep*100 << "\% points" << endl; 
                                        randSubsample = PM::get().DataPointsFilterRegistrar.create(
                                                "RandomSamplingDataPointsFilter", 
                                                map_list_of
                                                        ("prob", toParam(probToKeep))
                                        );
                                        mapCloud = randSubsample->filter(mapCloud);
                                }
                        }
                }

                stringstream outputFileNameIter;
                outputFileNameIter << boost::filesystem::path(outputFileName).stem().c_str() << "_" << i << ".vtk";
                
                mapCloud.save(outputFileNameIter.str());
        }
        
        mapCloud = densityFilter->filter(mapCloud);
        mapCloud = uniformSubsample->filter(mapCloud);
        
        mapCloud = densityFilter->filter(mapCloud);

        cout << endl ;
        cout <<  "-----------------------------" << endl;
        cout <<  "-----------------------------" << endl;
        cout << "Final number of points in the map: " << mapCloud.getNbPoints() << endl;
        mapCloud.save(outputFileName);
        cout << endl ;

        return 0;
}

void validateArgs(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        if (!(argc == 4))
        {
                cerr << endl;
                cerr << "Error in command line, usage " << argv[0] << " listOfFiles.csv maxPoint outputFileName.{vtk,csv,ply}" << endl;
                cerr << endl;
                cerr << "   example using file from example/data: " << endl;
                cerr << "        " << argv[0] << " carCloudList.csv 30000 test.vtk" << endl;
                cerr << endl;
                cerr << "Note: the file listOfFiles.csv need to include a serialize transformation matrix. For example:" << endl;
                cerr << "      fileName1.vtk, T00, T01, T02, T03, T10, T11, T12, T13, T20, T21, T22, T23, T30, T31, T32" << endl;
                cerr << endl;
                cerr << "Where Txy would be a 4x4 transformation matrix:" << endl;
                cerr << "      [T00 T01 T02 T03] " << endl;
                cerr << "      [T10 T11 T12 T13] " << endl;
                cerr << "      [T20 T21 T22 T23] " << endl;
                cerr << "      [T30 T31 T32 T33] (i.e., 0,0,0,1)" << endl;
                cerr << endl;
                cerr << "For more data visit:" << endl;
                cerr << "      http://projects.asl.ethz.ch/datasets/doku.php?id=laserregistration:laserregistration" << endl;
                cerr << endl;

                abort();
        }
}