CGraphPartitioner.h

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#ifndef CGRAPHPARTITIONER_H
#define CGRAPHPARTITIONER_H

#include <mrpt/utils/utils_defs.h>
#include <mrpt/utils/COutputLogger.h>
#include <mrpt/math/CMatrix.h>
#include <mrpt/math/ops_matrices.h>

namespace mrpt
{
/** Abstract graph and tree data structures, plus generic graph algorithms
  * \ingroup  mrpt_graphs_grp
  */
namespace graphs
{
/** Algorithms for finding the min-normalized-cut of a weighted undirected
 * graph.
 *    Two methods are provided, one for bisection and the other for
 *      iterative N-parts partition.
 *  It is an implementation of the Shi-Malik method proposed in:<br><br>
 *  <code>J. Shi and J. Malik, "Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation,"IEEE
 * Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.22, no.8, pp.
 * 888-905, Aug. 2000.</code><br>
 *
 * \tparam GRAPH_MATRIX The type of square matrices used to represent the
 * connectivity in a graph (e.g. mrpt::math::CMatrix)
 * \tparam num_t The type of matrix elements, thresholds, etc. (typ: float or
 * double). Defaults to the type of matrix elements.
 *
 * \note Prior to MRPT 1.0.0 this class wasn't a template and provided static
 * variables for debugging, which were removed since that version.
 */
template <class GRAPH_MATRIX, typename num_t = typename GRAPH_MATRIX::Scalar>
class CGraphPartitioner : public mrpt::utils::COutputLogger
{
   public:
        /** Performs the spectral recursive partition into K-parts for a given
         * graph.
         *   The default threshold for the N-cut is 1, which correspond to a cut
         * equal
         *   of the geometric mean of self-associations of each pair of groups.
         *
         * \param in_A                   [IN] The weights matrix for the graph. It must be a
         * square
         * matrix, where element W<sub>ij</sub> is the "likelihood" between nodes
         * "i" and "j", and typically W<sub>ii</sub> = 1.
         * \param out_parts              [OUT] An array of partitions, where each partition
         * is
         * represented as a vector of indexs for nodes.
         * \param threshold_Ncut [IN] If it is desired to use other than the default
         * threshold, it can be passed here.
         * \param forceSimetry   [IN] If set to true (default) the elements
         * W<sub>ij</sub> and W<sub>ji</sub> are replaced by
         * 0.5*(W<sub>ij</sub>+W<sub>ji</sub>). Set to false if matrix is known to
         * be simetric.
         * \param useSpectralBisection [IN] If set to true (default) a quick
         * spectral bisection will be used. If set to false, a brute force, exact
         * finding of the min-cut is performed.
         * \param recursive [IN] Default=true, recursive algorithm for finding N
         * partitions. Set to false to force 1 bisection as maximum.
         * \param minSizeClusters [IN] Default=1, Minimum size of partitions to be
         * accepted.
         *
         * \sa mrpt::math::CMatrix, SpectralBisection
         *
         * \exception Throws a std::logic_error if an invalid matrix is passed.
         */
        static void RecursiveSpectralPartition(
                GRAPH_MATRIX& in_A, std::vector<vector_uint>& out_parts,
                num_t threshold_Ncut = 1, bool forceSimetry = true,
                bool useSpectralBisection = true, bool recursive = true,
                unsigned minSizeClusters = 1, const bool verbose = false);

        /** Performs the spectral bisection of a graph. This method always perform
         *   the bisection, and a measure of the goodness for this cut is returned.
         *
         * \param in_A                  [IN] The weights matrix for the graph. It must be a
         * square
         * matrix, where element W<sub>ij</sub> is the "likelihood" between nodes
         * "i" and "j", and typically W<sub>ii</sub> = 1.
         * \param out_part1             [OUT] The indexs of the nodes that fall into the
         * first
         * group.
         * \param out_part2             [OUT] The indexs of the nodes that fall into the
         * second
         * group.
         * \param out_cut_value [OUT] The N-cut value for the proposed cut, in the
         * range [0-2].
         * \param forceSimetry  [IN] If set to true (default) the elements
         * W<sub>ij</sub> and W<sub>ji</sub> are replaced by
         * 0.5*(W<sub>ij</sub>+W<sub>ji</sub>). Set to false if matrix is known to
         * be simetric.
         *
         * \sa mrpt::math::CMatrix, RecursiveSpectralPartition
         *
         * \exception Throws a std::logic_error if an invalid matrix is passed.
         */
        static void SpectralBisection(
                GRAPH_MATRIX& in_A, vector_uint& out_part1, vector_uint& out_part2,
                num_t& out_cut_value, bool forceSimetry = true);

        /** Performs an EXACT minimum n-Cut graph bisection, (Use
         * CGraphPartitioner::SpectralBisection for a faster algorithm)
         *
         * \param in_A                  [IN] The weights matrix for the graph. It must be a
         * square
         * matrix, where element W<sub>ij</sub> is the "likelihood" between nodes
         * "i" and "j", and typically W<sub>ii</sub> = 1.
         * \param out_part1             [OUT] The indexs of the nodes that fall into the
         * first
         * group.
         * \param out_part2             [OUT] The indexs of the nodes that fall into the
         * second
         * group.
         * \param out_cut_value [OUT] The N-cut value for the proposed cut, in the
         * range [0-2].
         * \param forceSimetry  [IN] If set to true (default) the elements
         * W<sub>ij</sub> and W<sub>ji</sub> are replaced by
         * 0.5*(W<sub>ij</sub>+W<sub>ji</sub>). Set to false if matrix is known to
         * be simetric.
         *
         * \sa mrpt::math::CMatrix, RecursiveSpectralPartition
         *
         * \exception Throws a std::logic_error if an invalid matrix is passed.
         */
        static void exactBisection(
                GRAPH_MATRIX& in_A, vector_uint& out_part1, vector_uint& out_part2,
                num_t& out_cut_value, bool forceSimetry = true);

        /** Returns the normaliced cut of a graph, given its adjacency matrix A and
         * a bisection:
         */
        static num_t nCut(
                const GRAPH_MATRIX& in_A, const vector_uint& in_part1,
                const vector_uint& in_part2);

};  // End of class def.

}  // End of namespace
}  // End of namespace

// Template implementation:
#include "CGraphPartitioner_impl.h"

#endif