Formula to determine whether a radius is within another radius - geometry

I want to define an operation to computer whether a radius is within another one.
My radiuses are defined by tuples (latitude, longitude, radius), with a radius in meters.
In other words, I want to be able to check whether a circle is within another circle, with an application to GPS coordinates.
I need an algorithm in pseudo-code that could be reused in many cases.
The closest formula I've found is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula

Let circle radii are R and r.
Calculate distance d between circle centers using haversine formula.
Compare d with radii:
d > R + r: circles don't intersect
Abs(R-r) <= d <= R + r: circles do intersect
Abs(R-r) > d : one circle lies inside another

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Ellipse Overlap Area

I am working on an Eye Tracking application, and when I detect the pupil and enveloping it with an ellipse I have to compare it to a ground-truth (exact ellipse around the pupil).
There are always 3 cases of course:
No Overlap >> overlap = intersection = 0
Partial to Perfect Overlap >> overlap = intersection area / ground-truth area
Enclosing >> overlap = intersection area / ground truth
My problem is the 3rd case where e.g. found ellipse is much bigger than the ground-truth hence enclosing it inside so the total overlap is given as 1.0 which is mathematically right but detection-wise not really as the found ellipse doesn't only contain the pupil inside it but other non-pupil parts.
The question is:
What would be the best approach to measure and calculate the overlap percentage between the found and ground-truth ellipses? would be just mere division of the areas?
Please give some insights.
P.S.: I am coding with python and tried to use shapely library for the task as mentioned in the answer to this question as supposedly it does the transform to position the ellipses correctly regarding their rotational angle.
Let R be the reference ellipse, E the calculated ellipse.
We define score := area(E ∩ R) / area(E ∪ R). The larger the score the better the match.
As ∅ ⊆ E ∩ R ⊆ E ∪ R, we have 0 ≤ score ≤ 1, score=0 ⇔ (E ∩ R = ∅) and
score=1 ⇔ E=R.
Consider an ellipse that is completely enclosed by R and has half the area, as well as an ellipse that completely encloses R and has twice the area. Both would have a score of 0.5 . If they were closer to R, for example if the first had 4/5 the area and the second 5/4 the area both would have a score of 0.8 .

Coordinates of a point between two other points and know the distance from starting point and target point

How can i Find the Coorfinate of H.If There are three point that are collinear A,H,C . If it is known the two points that are at both ends like A(1.3,2.6) , C(8.1,13.7) and the distance of AH is 3.170958 . So how can I find the coordinates of H ? Here A is the starting point and C is the end point.
Find length of AC and apply formula to x and y coordinates
H = A + (C-A)* Len(AH) / Len(AC)
It is linear interpolation. Geometrically - law of similar triangles. Hypotenuses ratio (length) is equal to cathetus ratio (coordinate)

Calculate circle packing

I need to mathematically calculate the position [x, y] and the radius where C ∈ N and C is a circle that can be positioned inside another circle with scalable radius and being traversed until reaching a leaf.
Being x the horizontal scale, y the vertical scale and r the radius, I need to infinetely position subcircles inside it, in a perfect geometric form. I've made some math proofs to calculate the density, but I'm not having good results: https://gist.github.com/haskellcamargo/89384ac17ba0131115c7
I define Circle as:
data Shape = Circle Double Double Double deriving (Show)
But I cannot find a deterministic way to prove the x and y position when a circle is inserted inside, with a perfect geometric form.
I found ways to calculate the density of a subcircle, but with special calcs according to the amount of subcircles, but the x and y are variant, with the unique warranty that the composed form where n > 3 will be composed by triangles. I know that I must work on angle, but I'm stuck on this in the last 2 weeks.
The question is: Can I use deterministic calculations to have the position x, y and the radius giving n, being n the number of elements? The final result would be like http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/7607535, but with the absolute position, as calculated by D3.

Find the position of a circle tangent to two other circles

Say there are 3 circles, A, centered at point a, B centered at point b, and C, centered at point c. Each has a known radius independent of the others, Ar, Br, and Cr. The positions of a and b are known, but the position of c isn't.
The distance between a and b will always be between (Ar + Br) and (Ar + Br + (2 * Cr)).
I'm looking for a pseudo-code algorithm to find the position of c so that circles A and C are tangent, and circles B and C are tangent. There ought to be two solutions unless a and b are at their maximum allowed distance, in which case there would only be one.
Thank you, any help is much appreciated.
"Inflate" the circles A and B by Rc at the same time as you shrink C to a single point. Then the center of C appears as the intersection of the two inflated circles.
Write the implicit equation of the two circles and subtract one from the other; the quadratic terms cancel out, leaving the equation of a straight line (the line through the two intersection points).
(X-Xa)² + (Y-Ya)² = (Ra+Rc)²
(X-Xb)² + (Y-Yb)² = (Rb+Rc)²
=> by subtraction
(Xa-Xb)(2X-Xa-Xb) + (Ya-Yb)(2Y-Ya-Yb) = (Ra-Rb)(Ra+Rb+2Rc)
To solve this, you can express Y as a function of X using the linear relation, then substitute Y in the equation of one of the circles and solve the second degree equation in X, yielding two solutions.

How can I find the 3D coordinates of a projected rectangle?

I have the following problem which is mainly algorithmic.
Let ABCD be a rectangle with known dimensions d1, d2 lying somewhere in space.
The rectangle ABCD is projected on a plane P (forming in the general case a trapezium KLMN). I know the projection matrix H.
I can also find the 2D coordinates of the trapezium edge points K,L,M,N.
The Question is the following :
Given the Projection Matrix H, The coordinates of the edges on the trapezium and the knowledge that our object is a rectangle with specified geometry (dimensions d1, d2), could we calculate the 3D coordinates of the points A, B, C, D ?
I am grabbing images of simple rectangles with a single camera and i want to reconstruct the rectangles on space. I could grab more than one image and use triangulation but this is not desired.
The projection Matrix alone isn't enough since a ray is projected to the same point. The fact that the object has known dimensions, makes me believe that the problem is solvable and there are finite solutions.
If I figure out how this reconstruction can be made I know how to program it. So I am asking for an algorithmic/math answer.
Any ideas are welcome
Thanks
You need to calculate the inverse of your projection matrix. (your matrix cannot be singular)
I'm going to give a fairly brief answer here, but I think you'll get my general drift. I'm assuming you have a 3x4 projection matrix (P), so you should be able to get the camera centre by finding the right null vector of P: call it C.
Once you have C, you'll be able to compute rays with the same direction as vectors CK,CL,CM and CN (i.e. the cross product of C and K,L,M or N, e.g. CxK)
Now all you have to do is compute 3 points (u1,u2,u3) which satisfies the following 6 constraints (arbitrarily assuming KL and KN are adjacent and ||KL|| >= ||KN|| if d1 >= d2):
u1 lies on CK, i.e. u1.CK = 0
u2 lies on CL
u3 lies on CN
||u1-u2|| = d1
||u1-u3|| = d2
(u1xu2).(u1xu3) = 0 (orthogonality)
where, A.B = dot product of vectors A and B
||A|| = euclidean norm of A
AxB = cross product of A and B
I think this problem will generate a set of possible solutions, at least in 2D it does. For the 2D case:
|
-----------+-----------
/|\
/ | \
/ | \
/---+---\VP
/ | \
/ | \
/ | \
/ | \
/ | -- \
/ | | \
/ | | \
In the above diagram, the vertical segment and the horizontal segment would project to the same line on the view plane (VP). If you drew this out to scale you'd see that there are two rays from the eye passing through each end point of the unprojected line. This line can be in many positions and rotations - imagine dropping a stick into a cone, it can get stuck in any number of positions.
So, in 2D space there are an infinite number of solutions within a well defined set.
Does this apply to 3D?
The algorithm would be along the lines of:
Invert the projection matrix
Calculate the four rays that pass through the vertices of the rectangle, effectively creating a skewed pyramid
Try and fit your rectangle into the pyramid. This is the tricky bit and I'm trying to mentally visualise rectangles in pyramids to see if they can fit in more than one way.
EDIT: If you knew the distance to the object it would become trivial.
EDIT V2:
OK, let Rn be the four rays in world space, i.e. transformed via the inverse matrix, expressed in terms of m.Rn, where |Rn| is one. The four points of the rectange are therefore:
P1 = aR1
P2 = bR2
P3 = cR3
P4 = dR4
where P1..P4 are the points around the circumference of the rectangle. From this, using a bit of vector maths, we can derive four equations:
|aR1 - bR2| = d1
|cR3 - dR4| = d1
|aR1 - cR3| = d2
|bR2 - dR4| = d2
where d1 and d2 are the lengths of the sides of the rectangle and a, b, c and d are the unknowns.
Now, there may be no solution to the above in which case you'd need to swap d1 with d2. You can expand each line to:
(a.R1x - b.R2x)2 + (a.R1y - b.R2y)2 + (a.R1z - b.R2z)2 = d12
where R1? and R2? are the x/y/z components of rays 1 and 2. Note that you're solving for a and b in the above, not x,y,z.
m_oLogin is right. If I understand your goal, the image the camera snaps is the plane P, right? If so, you're measuring K,L,M,N off the 2D image. You need the inverse of the projection matrix to reconstruct A,B,C, and D.
Now I've never done this before, but it ocurrs to me that you might run into the same problem GPS does with only 3 satellite fixes - there are two possible solutions, one 'behind' P and one 'in front' of it, right?
The projection matrix encapsulates both the perspective and scale, so the inverse will give you the solution you are after. I think you are assuming that it only encapsulates the perspective, and you need something else to choose the correct scale.

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