[Insight-developers] Optimizers / Registration

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Bill,

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> Luis,
> itkAmoebaOptimizerTest is failing because an exception is being thrown at:
> itkSingleValuedNonLinearVnlOptimizer.h line 131.


Yes, the exception is thrown because the SmartPointer
appears to be null at the moment of the evaluation.

The optimizers are using an adaptor class to encapsulate
a RegistrationMetric inside a vnl_cost function. This last
one is the one expected by vnl_optimizers.

The adaptor class keeps a SmartPointer to the real 
RegistrationMetric.  In the test, this pointer is initialized,
but when the optimizer runs, it seems to be null.

Looks like Amoeba is doing an internal copy of the vnl_cost
function, and this copy is not transferring the SmartPointer.
I'll look into that.


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BTW Here is the status of our other test that are failing:


1) LBFGSOptimizerTest
2) LevenbergMarquardtOptimizerTest

Both report to be failing, but they are running ok.
it seems that vnl is sending a message to cerr.


3) ImageToImageAffineNormalizedCorrelation
4) ImageToImageAffinePatternIntensity

They are computing a NaN at some point. Looks like a 
division by zero. It works fine on VC++ though.  


I'm working on that, to have them clean
before wednesday.


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Thanks


Luis