gauss_jordan.h

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// -*- c++ -*-

//    Copyright (C) 2009 Ed Rosten (er258@cam.ac.uk)
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#ifndef TOON_INC_GAUSS_JORDAN_H
#define TOON_INC_GAUSS_JORDAN_H

#include <utility>
#include <cmath>
#include "TooN.h"

namespace TooN
{
template<int R, int C, class Precision, class Base> void gauss_jordan(Matrix<R, C, Precision, Base>& m)
{
    using std::swap;

    //Loop over columns to reduce.
    for(int col=0; col < m.num_rows(); col++)
    {
        //Reduce the current column to a single element


        //Search down the current column in the lower triangle for the largest
        //absolute element (pivot).  Then swap the pivot row, so that the pivot
        //element is on the diagonal. The benchmarks show that it is actually
        //faster to swap whole rows than it is to access the rows via indirection 
        //and swap the indirection element. This holds for both pointer indirection
        //and using a permutation vector over rows.
        {
          using std::abs;
            int pivotpos = col;
            double pivotval = abs(m[pivotpos][col]);
            for(int p=col+1; p <m.num_rows(); p++)
              if(abs(m[p][col]) > pivotval)
                {
                    pivotpos = p;
                    pivotval = abs(m[pivotpos][col]);
                }
            
            if(col != pivotpos)
                for(int c=0; c < m.num_cols(); c++)
                    swap(m[col][c], m[pivotpos][c]);
        }

        //Reduce the current column in every row to zero, excluding elements on
        //the leading diagonal.
        for(int row = 0; row < m.num_rows(); row++)
        {
            if(row != col)
            {
                double multiple = m[row][col] / m[col][col];
        
                //We could eliminate some of the computations in the augmented
                //matrix, if the augmented half is the identity. In general, it
                //is not. 

                //Subtract the pivot row from all other rows, to make 
                //column col zero.
                m[row][col] = 0;
                for(int c=col+1; c < m.num_cols(); c++)
                    m[row][c] = m[row][c] - m[col][c] * multiple;
            }
        }
    }
    
    //Final pass to make diagonal elements one. Performing this in a final
    //pass allows us to avoid any significant computations on the left-hand
    //square matrix, since it is diagonal, and ends up as the identity.
    for(int row=0;row < m.num_rows(); row++)
    {
        double mul = 1/m[row][row];

        m[row][row] = 1;

        for(int col=m.num_rows(); col < m.num_cols(); col++)
            m[row][col] *= mul;
    }
}

}
#endif