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\setduedate{Wednesday, December 02, 2020, 11:59 PM}

\serieheader{Numerical Computing}{2020}{Student: Claudio Maggioni}{Discussed with: --}{Solution for Project 5}{}
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The purpose of this assignment is to gain insight on the theoretical and
numerical properties of the Conjugate Gradient method. Here we use this method
in an image processing application with the goal of deblur an image given the
exact (noise-free) blurred image and the original transformation matrix. Note
that the ``noise-free" simplification is essential for us to solve this problem
in the scope of this assignment.

\section{General Questions [10 points]}
\subsection{What is the size of the matrix $A$?}
$A$ is an $n^2$ by $n^2$ matrix, where $n$ is the width and height in pixels
of the image to transform.

\subsection{How many diagonals bands does $A$ have?}
$A$ as $d^2$ diagonal bands, where $d$ is strictly an order of magnitude below
$n$.

\subsection{What is the length of the vectorized blur image $b$?}
$b$ is the row-vectorized form of the image pixel matrix, and thus has
dimensions 1 by $n^2$.

\section{Properties of A [10 points]}
\subsection{ If $A$ is not symmetric, how would this affect $\tilde{A}$?}
If $A$ were not symmetric, then $\tilde{A}$ would not be positive definite since
by definition $\tilde{A} = A A^T$, thus not satifying the assumptions taken when
solving the system.

\subsection{ Explain why solving $Ax = b$ for $x$ is equivalent to
minimizing $x^T A x - b^T x$ over $x$.}

First, we can say that:

\[f(x) = \frac12 x^T A x - b^T x = \frac12\langle Ax,x \rangle -
\langle b,x \rangle\]

Then by taking the derivative of $f(x)$ w.r.t. $x$ we have (assuming $A$ is
\textit{spd}, which it is):

\[f'(x) = \frac12 A^T x + \frac12Ax - b = Ax - b\]

which for $f'(x) = 0$ will be equivalent to solving $Ax = b$. By taking the
second derivative we have:

\[f''(x) = A > 0\]

since $A$ is positive definite. Therefore, we can say that the absolute minima
of $f(x)$ is the solution for $Ax = b$.


\section{Conjugate Gradient [40 points]}
\subsection{ Write a function for the conjugate gradient solver
\texttt{[x,rvec]=myCG(A,b,x0,max\_itr,tol)}, where \texttt{x}
and \texttt{rvec} are, respectively, the solution value and a
vector containing the residual at every iteration.}

The implementation can be found in file \texttt{myCG.m} in the source directory.
The test code for the function \texttt{myCG} can be found in the \texttt{test.m} file.

\subsection{ In order to validate your implementation, solve the system
defined by \texttt{A\_test.mat} and \texttt{b\_test.mat}. Plot
the convergence (residual vs iteration).}

The plot of the squared residual 2-norms over all iterations can be found in Figure
\ref{fig:plot1}.

\begin{figure}[h]
	\input{test_semilogy}
	\caption{Semilog plot of the plot of the squared residual 2-norms over all iterations}\label{fig:plot1}
\end{figure}

\subsection{ Plot the eigenvalues of \texttt{A\_test.mat} and comment on the
condition number and convergence rate.}

The eigenvalues of A can be found in figure
\ref{fig:plot2}. The condition number for matrix $A$ according to \texttt{rcond(...)} is $\approx 3.2720 \cdot 10^7$, which is very low without sitting in the denormalized range (i.e. $< \text{eps}$) and thus very good for the Conjugate Gradient algorithm.
This well conditioning is also reflected in the eigenvalue plot, which shows a not so
drastic increase of the first eigenvalues ordered in increasing order.

\begin{figure}[h]
	\input{A_eig}
	\caption{Semilog plot of the eigenvalues of A}\label{fig:plot2}
\end{figure}

\section{Debluring problem [40 points]}
\subsection{ Solve the debluring problem for the blurred image matrix
\texttt{B.mat} and transformation matrix \texttt{A.mat} using
your routine \texttt{myCG} and Matlab's preconditioned conjugate
gradient \texttt{pcg}. As a preconditioner, use \texttt{ichol}
to get the incomplete Cholesky factors and set routine type to
\texttt{nofill} with $\alpha=0.01$ for the diagonal shift (see
Matlab documentation). Solve the system with both solvers using
$max\_iter=200$ $tol= 10^{-6}$. Plot the convergence (residual
vs iteration) of each solver and display the original and final
deblurred image.}
\subsection{ When would \texttt{pcg} be worth the added computational cost?
What about if you are debluring lots of images with the same
blur operator?}


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