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30 
31 #ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_ITERATIVE_SCHUR_COMPLEMENT_SOLVER_H_
32 #define CERES_INTERNAL_ITERATIVE_SCHUR_COMPLEMENT_SOLVER_H_
33 
34 #include "ceres/linear_solver.h"
35 #include "ceres/internal/eigen.h"
36 #include "ceres/internal/scoped_ptr.h"
37 #include "ceres/types.h"
38 
39 namespace ceres {
40 namespace internal {
41 
42 class BlockSparseMatrix;
43 class ImplicitSchurComplement;
44 class Preconditioner;
45 
46 // This class implements an iterative solver for the linear least
47 // squares problems that have a bi-partite sparsity structure common
48 // to Structure from Motion problems.
49 //
50 // The algorithm used by this solver was developed in a series of
51 // papers - "Agarwal et al, Bundle Adjustment in the Large, ECCV 2010"
52 // and "Wu et al, Multicore Bundle Adjustment, submitted to CVPR
53 // 2011" at the Univeristy of Washington.
54 //
55 // The key idea is that one can run Conjugate Gradients on the Schur
56 // Complement system without explicitly forming the Schur Complement
57 // in memory. The heavy lifting for this is done by the
58 // ImplicitSchurComplement class. Not forming the Schur complement in
59 // memory and factoring it results in substantial savings in time and
60 // memory. Further, iterative solvers like this open up the
61 // possibility of solving the Newton equations in a non-linear solver
62 // only approximately and terminating early, thereby saving even more
63 // time.
64 //
65 // For the curious, running CG on the Schur complement is the same as
66 // running CG on the Normal Equations with an SSOR preconditioner. For
67 // a proof of this fact and others related to this solver please see
68 // the section on Domain Decomposition Methods in Saad's book
69 // "Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems".
70 class IterativeSchurComplementSolver : public BlockSparseMatrixSolver {
71  public:
72   explicit IterativeSchurComplementSolver(const LinearSolver::Options& options);
73   virtual ~IterativeSchurComplementSolver();
74 
75  private:
76   virtual LinearSolver::Summary SolveImpl(
77       BlockSparseMatrix* A,
78       const double* b,
79       const LinearSolver::PerSolveOptions& options,
80       double* x);
81 
82   LinearSolver::Options options_;
83   scoped_ptr<internal::ImplicitSchurComplement> schur_complement_;
84   scoped_ptr<Preconditioner> preconditioner_;
85   Vector reduced_linear_system_solution_;
86   CERES_DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(IterativeSchurComplementSolver);
87 };
88 
89 }  // namespace internal
90 }  // namespace ceres
91 
92 #endif  // CERES_INTERNAL_ITERATIVE_SCHUR_COMPLEMENT_SOLVER_H_
93