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This directory contains a number of examples that illustrate the use of GTSAM:
SimpleRotation: a super-simple example of optimizing a single rotation according to a single prior
Kalman Filter Examples
======================
elaboratePoint2KalmanFilter: simple linear Kalman filter on a moving 2D point, but done using factor graphs
easyPoint2KalmanFilter: uses the cool generic templated Kalman filter class to do the same
fullStateKalmanFilter: simple 1D example with a full-state filter
errorStateKalmanFilter: simple 1D example of a moving target measured by a accelerometer, incl. drift-rate bias
2D Pose SLAM
============
LocalizationExample.cpp: modeling robot motion
LocalizationExample2.cpp: example with GPS like measurements
Pose2SLAMExample: A 2D Pose SLAM example using the predefined typedefs in gtsam/slam/pose2SLAM.h
Pose2SLAMExample_advanced: same, but uses an Optimizer object
Pose2SLAMwSPCG: solve a simple 3 by 3 grid of Pose2 SLAM problem by using easy SPCG interface
Planar SLAM with landmarks
==========================
PlanarSLAMExample: simple robotics example using the pre-built planar SLAM domain
PlanarSLAMExample_selfcontained: simple robotics example with all typedefs internal to this script.
Visual SLAM
===========
CameraResectioning.cpp: An example of gtsam for solving the camera resectioning problem
The directory vSLAMexample includes 2 simple examples using GTSAM:
- vSFMexample using visualSLAM in for structure-from-motion (SFM), and
- vISAMexample using visualSLAM and ISAM for incremental SLAM updates
See the separate README file there.
Undirected Graphical Models (UGM)
=================================
The best representation for a Markov Random Field is a factor graph :-)
This is illustrated with some discrete examples from the UGM MATLAB toolbox, which
can be found at http://www.di.ens.fr/~mschmidt/Software/UGM

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# GTSAM Examples
This directory contains all GTSAM C++ examples GTSAM pertaining to SFM
## Basic Examples:
* **SimpleRotation**: a simple example of optimizing a single rotation according to a single prior
* **CameraResectioning**: resection camera from some known points
* **SFMExample**: basic structure from motion
* **SFMExample_bal**: same, but read data from read from BAL file
* **SelfCalibrationExample**: Do SFM while also optimizing for calibration
## Stereo Visual Odometry Examples
Visual odometry using a stereo rig:
* **StereoVOExample**: basic example of stereo VO
* **StereoVOExample_large**: larger, with a snippet of Kitti data
## More Advanced Examples
The following examples illustrate some concepts from Georgia Tech's research papers, listed in the references section at the end:
* **VisualISAMExample**: uses iSAM [TRO08]
* **VisualISAM2Example**: uses iSAM2 [IJRR12]
* **SFMExample_SmartFactor**: uses smartFactors [ICRA14]
## Kalman Filter Examples
* **elaboratePoint2KalmanFilter**: simple linear Kalman filter on a moving 2D point, but done using factor graphs
* **easyPoint2KalmanFilter**: uses the generic templated Kalman filter class to do the same
* **fullStateKalmanFilter**: simple 1D example with a full-state filter
* **errorStateKalmanFilter**: simple 1D example of a moving target measured by a accelerometer, incl. drift-rate bias
## 2D Pose SLAM
* **LocalizationExample.cpp**: modeling robot motion
* **LocalizationExample2.cpp**: example with GPS like measurements
* **Pose2SLAMExample**: A 2D Pose SLAM example using the predefined typedefs in gtsam/slam/pose2SLAM.h
* **Pose2SLAMExample_advanced**: same, but uses an Optimizer object
* **Pose2SLAMwSPCG**: solve a simple 3 by 3 grid of Pose2 SLAM problem by using easy SPCG interface
## Planar SLAM with landmarks
* **PlanarSLAMExample**: simple robotics example using the pre-built planar SLAM domain
* **PlanarSLAMExample_selfcontained**: simple robotics example with all typedefs internal to this script.
## Visual SLAM
The directory **vSLAMexample** includes 2 simple examples using GTSAM:
- **vSFMexample** using visual SLAM for structure-from-motion (SFM)
- **vISAMexample** using visual SLAM and ISAM for incremental SLAM updates
See the separate README file there.
##Undirected Graphical Models (UGM)
The best representation for a Markov Random Field is a factor graph :-) This is illustrated with some discrete examples from the UGM MATLAB toolbox, which
can be found at <http://www.di.ens.fr/~mschmidt/Software/UGM>
##Building and Running
To build, cd into the directory and do:
```
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
```
For each .cpp file in this directory two make targets are created, one to build the executable, and one to build and run it. For example, the file `CameraResectioning.cpp` contains simple example to resection a camera from 4 known points. You can build it using
```
make CameraResectioning
```
or build and run it immediately with
```
make CameraResectioning.run
```
which should output:
```
Final result:
Values with 1 values:
Value x1: R:
[
1, 0.0, 0.0,
0.0, -1, 0.0,
0.0, 0.0, -1,
];
t: [0, 0, 2]';
```
## References
- [TRO08]: [iSAM: Incremental Smoothing and Mapping, Michael Kaess](http://frank.dellaert.com/pub/Kaess08tro.pdf), Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, and Frank Dellaert, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2008
- [IJRR12]: [iSAM2: Incremental Smoothing and Mapping Using the Bayes Tree](http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dellaert/pub/Kaess12ijrr.pdf), Michael Kaess, Hordur Johannsson, Richard Roberts, Viorela Ila, John Leonard, and Frank Dellaert, International Journal of Robotics Research, 2012
- [ICRA14]: [Eliminating Conditionally Independent Sets in Factor Graphs: A Unifying Perspective based on Smart Factors](http://frank.dellaert.com/pub/Carlone14icra.pdf), Luca Carlone, Zsolt Kira, Chris Beall, Vadim Indelman, and Frank Dellaert, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014