OutlierFiltersImpl.h

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#ifndef __POINTMATCHER_OUTLIERFILTERS_H
#define __POINTMATCHER_OUTLIERFILTERS_H

#include "PointMatcher.h"

template<typename T>
struct OutlierFiltersImpl
{
        typedef PointMatcherSupport::Parametrizable Parametrizable;
        typedef PointMatcherSupport::Parametrizable P;
        typedef Parametrizable::Parameters Parameters;
        typedef Parametrizable::ParameterDoc ParameterDoc;
        typedef Parametrizable::ParametersDoc ParametersDoc;
        typedef Parametrizable::InvalidParameter InvalidParameter;
        
        typedef typename PointMatcher<T>::DataPoints DataPoints;
        typedef typename PointMatcher<T>::Matches Matches;
        typedef typename PointMatcher<T>::OutlierFilter OutlierFilter;
        typedef typename PointMatcher<T>::OutlierWeights OutlierWeights;
        typedef typename PointMatcher<T>::Matrix Matrix;
        typedef typename PointMatcher<T>::Array Array;
        typedef typename PointMatcher<T>::Vector Vector;
        
        struct NullOutlierFilter: public OutlierFilter
        {
                inline static const std::string description()
                {
                        return "Does nothing.";
                }

                NullOutlierFilter() : OutlierFilter("NullOutlierFilter",  ParametersDoc(), Parameters()) {}
                virtual OutlierWeights compute(const DataPoints& filteredReading, const DataPoints& filteredReference, const Matches& input);
        };

        struct MaxDistOutlierFilter: public OutlierFilter
        {
                inline static const std::string description()
                {
                        return "This filter considers as outlier links whose norms are above a fix threshold.";
                }
                inline static const ParametersDoc availableParameters()
                {
                        return {
                                {"maxDist", "threshold distance (Euclidean norm)", "1", "0.0000001", "inf", &P::Comp<T>}
                        };
                }
                
                const T maxDist;
                
                MaxDistOutlierFilter(const Parameters& params = Parameters());
                virtual OutlierWeights compute(const DataPoints& filteredReading, const DataPoints& filteredReference, const Matches& input);
        };

        //FIXME: is that useful in any case?
        struct MinDistOutlierFilter: public OutlierFilter
        {
                inline static const std::string description()
                {
                        return "This filter considers as outlier links whose norms are below a threshold.";
                }
                inline static const ParametersDoc availableParameters()
                {
                        return {
                                {"minDist","threshold distance (Euclidean norm)", "1", "0.0000001", "inf", &P::Comp<T> }
                        };
                }
                
                const T minDist;
                
                MinDistOutlierFilter(const Parameters& params = Parameters()); 
                virtual OutlierWeights compute(const DataPoints& filteredReading, const DataPoints& filteredReference, const Matches& input);
        };

        struct MedianDistOutlierFilter: public OutlierFilter 
        {
                inline static const std::string description()
                {
                        return "This filter considers as outlier links whose norms are above the median link norms times a factor. Based on \\cite{Diebel2004Median}.";
                }
                inline static const ParametersDoc availableParameters()
                {
                        return {
                                {"factor","points farther away factor * median will be considered outliers.", "3", "0.0000001", "inf", &P::Comp <T>}
                        };
                }
                
                const T factor;
                
                MedianDistOutlierFilter(const Parameters& params = Parameters());
                virtual OutlierWeights compute(const DataPoints& filteredReading, const DataPoints& filteredReference, const Matches& input);
        };

        struct TrimmedDistOutlierFilter: public OutlierFilter
        {
                inline static const std::string description()
                {
                        return "Hard rejection threshold using quantile. This filter considers as inlier a certain percentage of the links with the smallest norms. Based on \\cite{Chetverikov2002Trimmed}.";
                }
                inline static const ParametersDoc availableParameters()
                {
                        return {
                                {"ratio", "percentage to keep", "0.85", "0.0000001", "1.0", &P::Comp<T>}
                        };
                }
                
                const T ratio;
                
                TrimmedDistOutlierFilter(const Parameters& params = Parameters());
                virtual OutlierWeights compute(const DataPoints& filteredReading, const DataPoints& filteredReference, const Matches& input);
        };

        struct VarTrimmedDistOutlierFilter: public OutlierFilter
        {
                inline static const std::string description()
                {
                        return "Hard rejection threshold using quantile and variable ratio. Based on \\cite{Phillips2007VarTrimmed}.";
                }
                inline static const ParametersDoc availableParameters()
                {
                        return {
                                {"minRatio", "min ratio", "0.05","0.0000001", "1", &P::Comp<T>},
                                {"maxRatio", "max ratio", "0.99", "0.0000001", "1", &P::Comp<T>},
                                {"lambda", "lambda (part of the term that balance the rmsd: 1/ratio^lambda", "2.35"}
                        };
                }

                const T minRatio;
                const T maxRatio;
                const T lambda;
                
                VarTrimmedDistOutlierFilter(const Parameters& params = Parameters());
                virtual OutlierWeights compute(const DataPoints& filteredReading, const DataPoints& filteredReference, const Matches& input);
                
        private:
                // return the optimized ratio
                T optimizeInlierRatio(const Matches& matches);
        };
        
        
        // ---------------------------------
        struct SurfaceNormalOutlierFilter: public OutlierFilter
        {
                inline static const std::string description()
                {
                        return "Hard rejection threshold using the angle between the surface normal vector of the reading and the reference. If normal vectors or not in the descriptor for both of the point clouds, does nothing.";
                }
                inline static const ParametersDoc availableParameters()
                {
                        return {
                                {"maxAngle", "Maximum authorised angle between the 2 surface normals (in radian)", "1.57", "0.0", "3.1416", &P::Comp<T>}
                        };
                }

                const T eps;
                bool warningPrinted;
                
                SurfaceNormalOutlierFilter(const Parameters& params = Parameters());
                virtual OutlierWeights compute(const DataPoints& filteredReading, const DataPoints& filteredReference, const Matches& input);
        };

        struct GenericDescriptorOutlierFilter: public OutlierFilter
        {
                inline static const std::string description()
                {
                        return "This filter weights matched points based on a 1D descriptor of either a single point cloud (either the reference or the reading). The descriptor values must be larger than zero.";
                }
                inline static const ParametersDoc availableParameters()
                {
                        return {
                                { "source", "Point cloud from which the descriptor will be used: reference or reading", "reference"},
                                { "descName", "Descriptor name used to weight paired points", "none"},
                                { "useSoftThreshold", "If set to 1 (true), uses the value of the descriptor as a weight. If set to 0 (false), uses the parameter 'threshold' to set binary weights.", "0", "0", "1", P::Comp<bool>},
                                { "useLargerThan", "If set to 1 (true), values over the 'threshold' will have a weight of one.  If set to 0 (false), values under the 'threshold' will have a weight of one. All other values will have a weight of zero.", "1", "0", "1", P::Comp<bool>},
                                { "threshold", "Value used to determine the binary weights", "0.1", "0.0000001", "inf", &P::Comp<T>}
                        };
                }
                
                const std::string source;
                const std::string descName;
                const bool useSoftThreshold;
                const bool useLargerThan;
                const T threshold;
                
                GenericDescriptorOutlierFilter(const Parameters& params = Parameters());
                virtual OutlierWeights compute(const DataPoints& filteredReading, const DataPoints& filteredReference, const Matches& input);
        };

        struct RobustOutlierFilter: public OutlierFilter
        {

                inline static const std::string description()
                {
                        return "Robust weight function. 8 robust functions to choose from (Cauchy, Welsch, Switchable Constraint, Geman-McClure, Tukey, Huber, L1 and Student). All the functions are M-Estimator (\\cite{RobustWeightFunctions}) except L1 and Student.";
                }
                inline static const ParametersDoc availableParameters()
                {
                        return {
                                {"robustFct", "Type of robust function used. Available fct: 'cauchy', 'welsch', 'sc'(aka Switchable-Constraint), 'gm' (aka Geman-McClure), 'tukey', 'huber' and 'L1'. (Default: cauchy)", "cauchy"},
                                {"tuning", "Tuning parameter used to limit the influence of outliers."
                                  "If the 'scaleEstimator' is 'mad' or 'none', this parameter acts as the tuning parameter."
                                  "If the 'scaleEstimator' is 'berg' this parameter acts as the target scale (σ*).", "1.0", "0.0000001", "inf", &P::Comp<T>},
                                {"scaleEstimator", "The scale estimator is used to convert the error distance into a Mahalanobis distance. 3 estimators are available: "
                                  "'none': no estimator (scale = 1), "
                                  "'mad': use the median of absolute deviation (a kind of robust standard deviation), "
                                  "'berg': an iterative exponentially decreasing estimator", "mad"},
                                {"nbIterationForScale", "For how many iteration the 'scaleEstimator' is recalculated. After 'nbIterationForScale' iteration the previous scale is kept. A nbIterationForScale==0 means that the estiamtor is recalculated at each iteration.", "0", "0", "100", &P::Comp<int>},
                                {"distanceType", "Type of error distance used, either point to point ('point2point') or point to plane('point2plane'). Point to point gives better result normally.", "point2point"},
                                {"approximation", "If the matched distance is larger than this threshold, its weight will be forced to zero. This can save computation as zero values are not minimized. If set to inf (default value), no approximation is done. The unit of this parameter is the same as the distance used, typically meters.", "inf", "0.0", "inf", &P::Comp<T>}
                        };
                }

                Matrix computePointToPlaneDistance(const DataPoints& filteredReading, const DataPoints& filteredReference, const Matches& input);
                virtual OutlierWeights compute(const DataPoints& filteredReading, const DataPoints& filteredReference, const Matches& input);
                RobustOutlierFilter(const std::string& className, const ParametersDoc paramsDoc, const Parameters& params);
                RobustOutlierFilter(const Parameters& params = Parameters());
                protected:
                enum RobustFctId {
                        Cauchy=0,
                        Welsch=1,
                        SwitchableConstraint=2,
                        GM=3,
                        Tukey=4,
                        Huber=5,
                        L1=6,
                        Student=7
                };
                typedef std::map<std::string, RobustFctId> RobustFctMap;
                static RobustFctMap robustFcts;
                const std::string robustFctName;
                T tuning;
                const T squaredApproximation;
                const std::string scaleEstimator;
                const int nbIterationForScale;
                const std::string distanceType;
                int robustFctId;
                int iteration;
                T scale;
                T berg_target_scale;


                virtual void resolveEstimatorName();
                virtual OutlierWeights robustFiltering(const DataPoints& filteredReading, const DataPoints& filteredReference, const Matches& input);
        };

}; // OutlierFiltersImpl

#endif // __POINTMATCHER_OUTLIERFILTERS_H