bruteForceFunctor.h

// Copyright 2014 Nicolas Mellado
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// Authors: Nicolas Mellado
//
// An implementation of the Super 4-points Congruent Sets (Super 4PCS)
// algorithm presented in:
//
// Super 4PCS: Fast Global Pointcloud Registration via Smart Indexing
// Nicolas Mellado, Dror Aiger, Niloy J. Mitra
// Symposium on Geometry Processing 2014.
//
// Data acquisition in large-scale scenes regularly involves accumulating
// information across multiple scans. A common approach is to locally align scan
// pairs using Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm (or its variants), but
// requires static scenes and small motion between scan pairs. This prevents
// accumulating data across multiple scan sessions and/or different acquisition
// modalities (e.g., stereo, depth scans). Alternatively, one can use a global
// registration algorithm allowing scans to be in arbitrary initial poses. The
// state-of-the-art global registration algorithm, 4PCS, however has a quadratic
// time complexity in the number of data points. This vastly limits its
// applicability to acquisition of large environments. We present Super 4PCS for
// global pointcloud registration that is optimal, i.e., runs in linear time (in
// the number of data points) and is also output sensitive in the complexity of
// the alignment problem based on the (unknown) overlap across scan pairs.
// Technically, we map the algorithm as an ‘instance problem’ and solve it
// efficiently using a smart indexing data organization. The algorithm is
// simple, memory-efficient, and fast. We demonstrate that Super 4PCS results in
// significant speedup over alternative approaches and allows unstructured
// efficient acquisition of scenes at scales previously not possible. Complete
// source code and datasets are available for research use at
// http://geometry.cs.ucl.ac.uk/projects/2014/super4PCS/.


#ifndef _SUPER4PCS_ACCELERATORS_BRUTE_FORCE_FUNCTOR_H_
#define _SUPER4PCS_ACCELERATORS_BRUTE_FORCE_FUNCTOR_H_

#include "super4pcs/accelerators/pairExtraction/intersectionNode.h"
#include <list>
#include <iostream>

namespace GlobalRegistration{
namespace Accelerators{
namespace PairExtraction{

struct DummyPrimitive {};


template <class _DummyPrimitive, class _Point, int _dim, typename _Scalar>
struct BruteForceFunctor{
  typedef _Point Point;
  typedef _Scalar Scalar;
  enum { dim = _dim };

  template <class PrimitiveContainer,
            class PointContainer,
            class ProcessingFunctor> 
  inline
  void
  process(
    const PrimitiveContainer & M, 
    const PointContainer & Q, 
    Scalar &epsilon,           
    unsigned int minNodeSize,  
    ProcessingFunctor& functor
  );

};


template <class DummyPrimitive, class Point, int dim, typename Scalar>
template <class PrimitiveContainer,
          class PointContainer,
          class ProcessingFunctor>
void
BruteForceFunctor<DummyPrimitive, Point, dim, Scalar>::process(
        const PrimitiveContainer & M, 
        const PointContainer & Q, 
        Scalar &epsilon,           
        unsigned int /*minNodeSize*/,  
        ProcessingFunctor& functor
    )
{

  const unsigned int sizeM = M.size();
  const unsigned int sizeQ = Q.size();
  for (unsigned int j = 0; j != sizeQ; ++j){
    functor.beginPrimitiveCollect(j);
    for (unsigned int i = 0; i != sizeM; ++i){
        if( M[i].intersectPoint(Q[j], epsilon ))
            functor.process(i,j);
    }
    functor.endPrimitiveCollect(j);
  }
}

} // namespace PairExtraction
} // namespace Accelerators
} // namespace Super4PCS

#endif // _BRUTE_FORCE_FUNCTOR_H_