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Camera tracking: skip unused SVD output work in null-vector queries
camtrack: RANSAC time is 93 % small SVDs ## Problem `camtrack/geometry.rs:93` (`ransac_essential`), `:54` (`essential_8pt`), `linalg.rs:147` (`svd`), `:237` (`null_vector`): 92.9 % of a RANSAC run is small SVDs (100 calls, 500 correspondences, 10 % outliers, up to 400 iterations; `ransac_essential` itself 5 %). The adaptive iteration limit already exists. Profile from an instrumented run, not an A/B median. ## Ideas (gain NOT measured) A specialised small SVD / null-space routine with fixed work arrays and without U normalisation and sorted copies that `null_vector` does not need; only afterwards consider parallel RANSAC samples. Ch
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- vangel76 (imported from pull request #2345, open)
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991904888a20b7da72b2a4880b21c7d912154736- Size
- +47 −24 in 1 file
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- pending
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- 2026-10-28
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1eaab806512877e7078da410
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raw · crates/track/src/camtrack/linalg.rs
@@ -145,6 +145,33 @@ pub fn slerp(a: &M3, b: &M3, t: f64) -> M3 { /// `max(m, n) × n` (rows beyond `m` belong to zero padding), `s` is sorted descending and `V` /// is `n × n` (columns are the right singular vectors). pub fn svd(a: &[f64], m: usize, n: usize) -> (Vec<f64>, Vec<f64>, Vec<f64>) {+ let rows = m.max(n);+ let (mut u, mut s, v) = jacobi_factors(a, m, n);+ for (j, sj) in s.iter().enumerate() {+ if *sj > 1e-300 {+ for r in 0..rows {+ u[r * n + j] /= sj;+ }+ }+ }+ // Sort descending.+ let mut order: Vec<usize> = (0..n).collect();+ order.sort_by(|&a, &b| s[b].total_cmp(&s[a]));+ let (mut u2, mut v2) = (vec![0.0; rows * n], vec![0.0; n * n]);+ for (k, &j) in order.iter().enumerate() {+ for r in 0..rows {+ u2[r * n + k] = u[r * n + j];+ }+ for r in 0..n {+ v2[r * n + k] = v[r * n + j];+ }+ }+ s = order.iter().map(|&j| s[j]).collect();+ (u2, s, v2)+}++// Unnormalised and unsorted factors; full SVD and null-space queries share every sweep.+fn jacobi_factors(a: &[f64], m: usize, n: usize) -> (Vec<f64>, Vec<f64>, Vec<f64>) { let rows = m.max(n); let mut u = vec![0.0; rows * n]; u[..m * n].copy_from_slice(&a[..m * n]);@@ -192,28 +219,8 @@ pub fn svd(a: &[f64], m: usize, n: usize) -> (Vec<f64>, Vec<f64>, Vec<f64>) { break; } }- let mut s: Vec<f64> = (0..n).map(|j| (0..rows).map(|r| u[r * n + j] * u[r * n + j]).sum::<f64>().sqrt()).collect();- for (j, sj) in s.iter().enumerate() {- if *sj > 1e-300 {- for r in 0..rows {- u[r * n + j] /= sj;- }- }- }- // Sort descending.- let mut order: Vec<usize> = (0..n).collect();- order.sort_by(|&a, &b| s[b].total_cmp(&s[a]));- let (mut u2, mut v2) = (vec![0.0; rows * n], vec![0.0; n * n]);- for (k, &j) in order.iter().enumerate() {- for r in 0..rows {- u2[r * n + k] = u[r * n + j];- }- for r in 0..n {- v2[r * n + k] = v[r * n + j];- }- }- s = order.iter().map(|&j| s[j]).collect();- (u2, s, v2)+ let s: Vec<f64> = (0..n).map(|j| (0..rows).map(|r| u[r * n + j] * u[r * n + j]).sum::<f64>().sqrt()).collect();+ (u, s, v) } /// SVD of a 3 × 3 matrix: (U, singular values descending, V) with `m = U diag(s) Vᵀ`.@@ -235,8 +242,10 @@ pub fn svd3(m: &M3) -> (M3, V3, M3) { /// The unit vector `x` minimising `|A x|` (`m × n` row-major): the right singular vector of /// the smallest singular value. pub fn null_vector(a: &[f64], m: usize, n: usize) -> Vec<f64> {- let (_, _, v) = svd(a, m, n);- (0..n).map(|r| v[r * n + n - 1]).collect()+ let (_, s, v) = jacobi_factors(a, m, n);+ // The full SVD uses a stable descending sort: the last of equal minima wins.+ let smallest = (0..n).min_by(|&i, &j| s[i].total_cmp(&s[j]).then_with(|| j.cmp(&i))).unwrap_or(0);+ (0..n).map(|r| v[r * n + smallest]).collect() } /// Eigen-decomposition of a symmetric `n × n` matrix (cyclic Jacobi): eigenvalues ascending@@ -441,6 +450,20 @@ mod tests { assert!(s[0] >= s[1] && s[1] >= s[2]); } + #[test]+ fn null_vector_matches_full_svd_bits_including_ties() {+ for (m, n) in [(0, 0), (1, 1), (3, 3), (8, 9), (9, 9), (20, 3), (100, 9)] {+ for scale in [0.0, 1e-100, 1.0, 1e100] {+ let a: Vec<f64> = (0..m * n).map(|i| (((i * 37) % 31) as f64 - 15.0) * scale).collect();+ let (_, _, v) = svd(&a, m, n);+ let expected: Vec<_> = (0..n).map(|r| v[r * n + n - 1].to_bits()).collect();+ assert_eq!(null_vector(&a, m, n).iter().map(|v| v.to_bits()).collect::<Vec<_>>(), expected);+ }+ }+ let a = [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0];+ assert_eq!(null_vector(&a, 3, 3), vec![0.0, 0.0, 1.0]);+ }+ #[test] fn rotations_round_trip() { let w = [0.3, -1.2, 0.7];