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Christoph Gielen, a photographer known for his aerial views of American suburbs has chosen as his next subject super-maximum security prisons — the most controlled spaces in American prison industrial complex. Supermaxes are of particular interest as they are designed specifically for solitary confinement.
As I wrote for Wired.com, today, America has an unusual thirst for putting people in total lockdown.
In consideration of "the severe mental pain or suffering" it can cause, Juan Mendez, United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, said that solitary confinement amounts to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Mendez recommended that prisoners never be confined in solitary for more than 15 days.
However, in US prisons, stints in the hole can be longer. Much longer. The California Department of Corrections self-reports the average stay on an inmate in the Pelican Bay State Prison Secure Housing Unit (SHU) is six-and-a-half-years. Many have been in the SHU for a decade or more. In Louisiana, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 have been in solitary for over 30 years.
I've also written previously about how images of solitary confinement – despite its widespread use – are difficult to come by.
"The opportunity to visually examine these restricted locations is significant, especially at a time when journalists access is increasingly curtailed," says Gielen.
Gielen noticed concentric patterns of equivalent interest in the Supermax prisons of Arizona whiel working on his suburbs photo series Ciphers.
American Prison Perspectives is a simple and effective presentation of these design forms. Are gated communities and caged facilities are our preferred housing solutions for the late 20th and early 21st centuries?
With 1 in 100 adults behind bars, America incarcerates more people than any other modern society. Of the 2.3 million men, women and children locked up in the U.S., 80,000 prisoners are in solitary. That number includes hundreds of children.
The rapid adoption of solitary by prison authorities as a means to discipline and segregate has led Jeremy Travis, president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, to call it one of the "greatest social experiments of our time." For some sociologists, the parallels that Gielen drew between housing and prisons go beyond visual similarity. Columbia University's Spatial Information Design Lab goes so far to ask, "Have prisons and jails become the mass housing of our time?"
The debate on solitary confinement is timely. To quote myself, again:
The Illinois campaign spurred Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) to chair the first-ever congressional hearing on solitary confinement last summer. Durbin showed up on Capitol Hill with an actual-size solitary-cell replica.
While for many, the discussion of prisons and segregation can revolve around human rights and legal justice, the issue is particularly relevant today for its economic implications. There was a successful grass-roots campaign to shutdown Illinois' Tamms Correctional Facility, due largely to the fact that it costs more than $60,000 a year to house a prisoner in solitary confinement in Tamms, compared to an average of $22,000 for inmates in other Illinois prisons. The closure is currently stalled — held up in court following opposition from the AFSCME labor union with prison guards in its ranks.
"In America, particularly, the long view is hardly ever considered. Fiscal views are considered for on a yearly basis," says Gielen. "Economically, the widespread use of solitary is unsustainable."
American Prison Perspectives doesn't end with the images. In 2014, Gielen plans launch a website devoted to the series and host a public online forums. Furthermore, Gielen foresees symposia across the U.S. with former prisoners, prison architects, legal experts, activists, correctional officer union-reps and prison administrators, along with firsthand accounts of solitary confinement and the perspectives of mental health experts on the effects of isolation.
American Prison Perspectives will illustrate how prison design and architecture reflect political discourse, economic priorities, cultural sentiments, and social insecurities, and how, in turn, these constructed environments also become statements about a society.
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I wish Christoph the very best in this ambitious project.
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You all know I'm a big supporter of Alyse Emdur and her six year project Prison Landscapes, so it was great to feature her work on Wired.com.
It's gratifying when my interest in prisons overlap with wider issues of visual culture and with the curiosity of mainstream readers.
The article coincides with Emdur's book Prison Landscapes, published by Four Corners, London is now available. Alyse Emdur is very grateful that Four Corners will donate books to each of the individuals whose portraits feature in the book.
Please read my piece about Emdur on Raw File.
Prison Visiting Room Portraits, An Interview with Alyse Emdur. (Prison Photography)
Escapist Landscape Art From Inside America's Prisons: The paintings that hide and decorate the lives of the incarcerated. (The Atlantic)
Up Against The Wall: Prison Snapshots. (New York Times)
'Prison Landscapes' and the Interior World of the Incarcerated. (KCET)
Bryan Formhals has delivered some festive cheer for Raw File and I. Picked as one of his Top 15 Photography Websites of 2010.
We've still a long way to go in terms of consistent output, but Formhals is on the money about working with quality editors. Keith Axline has been a rock.
"Raw File exploded onto my radar when they brought in Pete Brook as a writer. It's a perfect example of how a mainstream magazine can tap into the talent of someone who knows their way around the blogosphere. The posts aren't as frequent as I would prefer, but they're always carefully selected and well written. You can tell Pete is working with good editors who are helping him refine his message. As much as I believe in independent blogs, there's no getting around the fact that great editing elevates content. I'll address this in a future post, but I think you'll see more mainstream publications tapping into the blogosphere to find talented bloggers to run their photography blogs."
Bryan confesses the "link-bait" title to his piece, but his selection is in fact very thoughtful and though out. Each pick is a departure point for discussion on a specific emerging, dying or morphing aspect of photo talk, sharing and criticism on the web. A melange of choices. Check it out.
In the interests of disclosure, I listed Formhals in Raw File's Favourite Photobloggers article.
Ernest Morgan, an inmate since 1987, holds his prison-approved CD player. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
My friend and colleague Matt Shechmeister at Wired's Raw File just published Life on Lockdown: See-Through Gadgets, DIY Media, No Internet, an article and gallery on idiosyncratic prison technologies.
Matt went to San Quentin Prison with photographer Jon Snyder (@jonsnyder) to tour cells and music studios to report on the see-through typewriters, prison-sanctioned music selections and contracted companies all shaping the security-minded tech-culture at San Quentin.
Not an angle seen or read very often. Well worth checking out.
Over the next few weeks, posts at Prison Photography may thin out a little as I devote a chunk of energies to a new gig at Wired's photography blog, Raw File. For the following reasons, this is an exciting new departure for me:
- I can call on the expertise of a knowledgeable and calm editor (when I pitch ideas, he says "home run" or "leave it alone")
- I can piggyback on the back of some ridiculous stats (I guess that's just Wired for you?!)
- Readers of Raw File have a many more reasons to stop there than they do here (ie, they're not only tangentially interested in prison reform or in the past somehow stumbled upon my photography commentaries) … and they are harsh critics.
So far I've looked at:
- Laura Pannack's recent work and success – Striking Teenage Portraits Boost Young Photog's Career
- The alternatives to the Norsigian/Ansel Adams saga – Troves, Caches and Suitcases: Famous Lost Photographs Discovered
- and a Southern California Rapid Transit Employee of the Month Portrait Archive – Fabulous Bus Driver Photos Show Off Mustaches, Sunglasses
My tweeting activity shall also migrate from @brookpete to @rawfileblog. Please follow and spread the word on this newly-active-stretches-every-morning twitter account.
I spent last week on the phone to Mark Lubell, managing director of Magnum Photos; David Coleman, curator of photography at the Harry Ransom Center; and Eli Reed, photographer, Magnum member and UT professor.
The upshot was The Story Behind the Legendary Magnum Archive Sale, an article over on Wired's Raw File blog.
There's a couple of great quotes, my favourite is this from Coleman, "The boxes are marked with three-initial codes. I haven't quite broken the codes that correspond to all the photographers. Robert Capa is CAR but then also BOB, which is funny. Bob."
It was a story I really wanted to report on because I do think this is an astounding "incentivized" outcome for all involved. Read the article for details.
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Paying for college doesn't have to be difficult or devastating. Go to the Paying for College knowledge center to get advice on raising cash and reducing costs.
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Michael Mann was born on February 5, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. He won a Director's Guild of America Award and an Emmy for his early television work and made his feature film directorial debut with Thief. His film Manhunter marked the first screen appearance of Hannibal Lecter. Mann was executive producer on the hit crime series Miami Vice and he continues to direct critically acclaimed films.
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Director, producer and screenwriter Michael Mann was born on February 5, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. Raised in the working class Chicago neighborhood of Humboldt Park, Mann graduated from high school in 1960 and attended the University of Wisconsin, where he received his BA in English literature. After college, Mann did graduate work at the London Film School, earning his master's degree in 1967. While in England, he worked at an advertising agency and honed his directorial skills on commercials, short films and documentaries.
Mann moved back to Chicago in 1971 and relocated to Los Angeles a year later, where he began writing for television, scripting the prime time crime dramas Starsky and Hutch and Police Story and the pilot for a 1978 TV movie, Vega$. His first TV directorial effort, a drama called The Jericho Mile (1979), won Mann a Director's Guild of America Award as well as an Emmy for co-writing. In 1981, Mann made his feature film directorial debut with Thief, a crime drama starring James Caan; the film received good reviews but never took off commercially.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Mingo Circuit Judge Michael Thornsbury has been indicted on charges ranging from trying to frame the husband of a lover to tampering with a jury.
The office of U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin unsealed the indictments Thursday, hours after unsealing charges of attempted extortion by Mingo County Commissioner David Baisden.
A federal grand jury handed down the indictments Wednesday. The indictments allege Thornsbury, 57, tried to plant drugs on the husband of his former secretary, with whom he had an affair about five years ago.
The judge, who served as Mingo's sole circuit judge since 1997, was charged with conspiracy against a person's rights against unreasonable arrest, violating a person's right to liberty without due process of law, and conspiracy to violate a company's right not to be deprived of their property without due process.
The state Supreme Court voted Thursday to suspend Thornsbury without pay and to suspend his law license.
He began the affair with his secretary, who is not named in the indictment but later was identified as Kim Woodruff, in early 2008. Thornsbury insisted during the relationship she leave her husband and told her he was unfaithful and used drugs, according to the indictment. Instead, she broke the relationship off with Thornsbury in June 2008.
"When his secretary ended the relationship citing her marriage, Judge Thornsbury set off on a campaign to persecute his secretary's husband, his romantic rival," Goodwin said in a press conference. "In the process he corrupted the system of justice in Mingo County for his own nefarious purposes."
Thornsbury continued to try to rekindle the romance while allegedly plotting against the husband, also not named in the indictment but later identified as Robert Woodruff.
The Woodruffs are represented by Charleston attorney Michael Callaghan, and did not want to comment. Callaghan said they are beginning the process of "putting their lives back together and seek their own justice."
Callaghan applauded the U.S. Attorney's office for prosecuting "what appears terrible abuse of a public office." He represented Robert Woodruff through the "frivolous" cases brought about by Thornsbury's alleged schemes.
"While I was successful in getting both charges dismissed, my client should never have been placed under the stress of being charged criminally, nor should he have spent time in jail for crimes he did not commit," Callaghan said in an email.
"When the allegations came to light today that the charges were bogus and the work of Judge Thornsbury for personal gain, my client was both shocked and saddened."
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In 2008, Thornsbury allegedly told business partner Jarrod Fletcher, who also was Mingo County's director of Emergency Services and Homeland Security, that Robert Woodruff was dealing drugs. He also told Fletcher to tell a member of the State Police and others about the drugs, according to the indictment.
"It included corrupting a member of the West Virginia State Police, who at his behest - at Judge Thornsbury's behest - procured a criminal complaint and an arrest warrant and arrested Thornsbury's rival based on information Judge Thornsbury and the trooper knew to be false," Goodwin said.
"When that effort was eventually thwarted Judge Thornsbury appointed a close associate as the foreperson of a state grand jury and counseled him on how to take that grand jury rogue."
Thornsbury allegedly told Jeff Cline, another close friend, to plant a box filled with some kind of illegal drug under the frame of Robert Woodruff's truck. He called Cline into his office and showed him a metal box with magnets attached to it containing a plastic bag of illegal drugs, according to the documents.
Once the drugs were planted, Thornsbury was to call Fletcher who would then tell Trooper Brandon Moore, who would then pull Woodruff over.
That followed a different alleged scheme to indict Robert Woodruff on charges of stealing from his employer, the indictment states. The charges were later dropped when Thornsbury and others were disqualified from the case.
In early 2009, Thornsbury appointed Fletcher as foreman of a grand jury. Even though the prosecuting attorney, Michael Sparks, had disqualified himself from the case, Thornsbury told Fletcher to move forward with an indictment on Woodruff, according to court documents.
Moore testified Woodruff was stealing from the company, but federal investigators say Moore knew parts of his testimony were false.
Fletcher and the grand jury issued subpoenas with the idea that Thornsbury could use the information to pursue a criminal charge against Woodruff, the indictment said.
One company that was subpoenaed fought the judge's order after they discovered his ties with Fletcher, the indictment states.


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This book is about Sally Kern, District 84 House of Representatives member from Oklahoma, and her desire to see America return to the conservative principles that guided the nations founders. In January 2008, the pastors wife and former high school teacher gave a speech to a Republican club in Oklahoma City explaining that the founding fathers believed Christian principles would lead to a civilized society, individual self-government, good citizens, the elevation of learning, and a cohesive value system. While explaining the fifth benefit, a cohesive value system, she told of a group of wealthy homosexual activists who threatened the nations moral fabric by attempting to unseat seventy conservative politicians who opposed their agenda. Clips from the speech later were posted on YouTube, generating more than 2 million hits and leading to what she describes as a media "stoning." That didnt stop her from winning re-election or from continuing her calls for America to return to the conservative principles that made it great. In this book she warns that there is danger ahead if social conservatives dont preserve the nations foundations of morality, truth, and tolerance. She issues a cry for conservatives to stand for their freedom now before they no longer have the right to do so.
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Code covered by the BSD License
by Miroslav Balda
15 Nov 2007 (Updated 25 Feb 2012)
Efficient and stable Levenberg-Marquard-Fletcher method for solving of nonlinear equations
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The function The LMFnlsq.m serves for finding optimal solution of an overdetermined system of nonlinear equations in the least-squares sense. The standard Levenberg- Marquardt algorithm was modified by Fletcher and coded in FORTRAN many years ago (see the Reference). This version of LMFnlsq is its complete MATLAB implementation complemented by setting parameters of iterations as options. This part of the code has been strongly influenced by Duane Hanselman's function mmfsolve.m.
Calling of the function is rather simple and is one of the following: LMFnlsq % for help output Options = LMFnlsq('default'); Options = LMFnlsq(Name1,Value1,Name2,Value2,...); x = LMFnlsq(Eqns,X0); x = LMFnlsq(Eqns,X0,'Name',Value,...); x = LMFnlsq(Eqns,X0,Options); [x,ssq] = LMFnlsq(Eqns,...); [x,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq(Eqns,...); [x,ssq,cnt,nfJ] = LMFnlsq(Eqns,...); [x,ssq,cnt,nfJ,XY] = LMFnlsq(Eqns,...);
In all cases, the applied variables have the following meaning: % Eqns is a function name or a handle defining a set of equations, % X0 is a vector of initial estimates of solutions, % x is the least-squares solution, % ssq is sum of squares of equation residuals, % cnt is a number of iterations, % nfJ is a sum of calls of Eqns and function for Jacobian matrix, % xy is a matrix of iteration results for 2D problem [x(1), x(2)]. % Options is a list of Name-Value pairs, which may be set by the calls Options = LMFnlsq; % for default values, Options = LMFnlsq('Name',Value,...); % for users' chosen parameters, Options = LMFnlsq(Options,'Name',Value,...); % for updating Options. If no Options is defined, default values of options are used.
Field names 'Name' of the structure Options are: % 'Display' for control of iteration results, % 'MaxIter' for setting maximum number of iterations, % 'ScaleD' for defining diagonal matrix of scales, % 'FunTol' for tolerance of final function values, % 'XTol' scalar or vector for tolerance of final solution increments, % 'Trace' for control of iteration saving, % 'Lambda' for setting of initial value of the parameter lambda. % 'Jacobian' for a handle of function, which evaluates Jacobian matrix. If no handle is declared, internal function for finite difference approximation of the matrix is used.
Example 1: The general Rosenbrock's function has the form f(x) = 100(x(2)-x(1)^2)^2 + (1-x(1))^2 Optimum solution gives f(x)=0 for x(1)=x(2)=1. Function f(x) can be expressed in the form f(x) = f1(x)^2 + f2(x)^2, where f1(x) = 10(x(2)-x(1)^2), and f2(x) = 1-x(1). Values of the functions f1(x) and f2(x) can be used as residuals. The parameter Eqns has a form of either named function: % function r = rosen(x) %% ROSEN Residuals of the Rosenbrock valey: % r = [ 10*(x(2)-x(1)^2) % first part, f1(x) % 1-x(1) % second part, f2(x) % ]; or a handle of the anonymous function: % rosen = @(x) [10*(x(2)-x(1)^2); 1-x(1)]; The calls are different: [x,...] = LMFnlsq('rosen',...); % in case of named function, or [x,...] = LMFnlsq(rosen,...); % in case of the function handle. LMFnlsq finds the exact solution of this problem in 17 iterations.
Example 2: Regression of experimental data. Let us have experimental data simulated by the decaying function y = c(1) + c(2)*exp(c(3)*x) + w*randn(size(x)); for column vector x. An initial guess of unknown parameters is obtained from approximation y(x) for x=0 and x->Inf as c1 = y(end); c2 = y(1)-c(1); and c3=x(2:end-1)\log((y(2:end-1)-c1)/c2) The anonymous function is defined for predefined column vector x as res = @(c) c(1)+c(2)*exp(c(3)*x) - y; and the call, say [x,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq(res,[c1;c2;c3],'Display',1); Provided w=0 (without errors), x=(0:.1:2)' with c=[1,2,-1], the initial estimates of unknown coefficients are c0 = [1.2707, 1.7293, -1.6226]. The call [c,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq(res,[c1,c2,c3]) gives the exact solution c=[1, 2, -1] in 9 iterations.
Notes: * Users having old MATLAB versions earlier than 7, which has no anonymous functions implemented, have to call LMFnlsq with named functions for evaluation of residuals. * See LMFnlsqtest for a short explanation and solved examples. * If values of unknowns are different in orders, it is recommended to use variable scaling (see help), * The script BoxBOD.m from NIST testing problems is complemented with the solution.
Reference: Fletcher, R., (1971): A Modified Marquardt Subroutine for Nonlinear Least Squares. Rpt. AERE-R 6799, Harwell
Lm Fsolve.M: Levenberg Marquardt Fletcher Algorithm For Nonlinear Least Squares Problems inspired this file.
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Sorry, I repair a wrong copying. The right solutions are x = -0.0000 1.0000 ssq = 2.6880e-009 cnt = 149 =================== x = 0.0000 1.0000 ssq = 1.2586e-021 cnt = 4 =================== x = 0.0000 1.0000 ssq = 1.2586e-021 cnt = 4
Dear Amin I thank you for your interest in my function LMFnlsq. The difference in solutions between LMFnlsq and fminsearch is caused by default preset tolerances 'XTol' and FunTol'.By changing them, you would obtain just the same result. It is obvious from the first group of results from the script Amin.m with improved required tolerances: % Amin.m %%%%%%%%% 2014-01-03 clc clear all close all format compact
y =@(x) x^2+1; c =@(x) complex(x(1),x(2)); fx=@(x) abs(y(c(x)));
[x,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq(fx,[0.1;1.5],'XTol',1e-10,'FunTol',1e-10)
% solution of 2 equations: Re c^2 + 1; Im c^2 = 0; fx=@(x) [real(y(c(x))); imag(y(c(x)))]; [x,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq(fx,[0.1;1.5])
% solution of 2 equations: Re c^2 + 1; Im c^2 = 0; c = @(x) complex(x(1),x(2))^2; fx = @(x) [real(c(x))+1; imag(c(x))]; [x,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq(fx,[0.1;1.5])
Solutions of all cases are:
% Amin.m %%%%%%%%% 2014-01-03 clc clear all close all format compact
% solution of 2 equations: Re f + 1; Im c^2 = 0; fx=@(x) [real(y(c(x))); imag(y(c(x)))]; [x,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq(fx,[0.1;1.5])
The first solution corresponds the example solved by fminsearch, however, with smaler tolerances. The solution is the same.
If you wanted to solve the >>complex<< problem f(x) = x^2 + 1, then the anonymous functionsare different, and are given in example 2 and 3. It is clear that the almost exact solution is reached in only 4 steps (cnt).
All the best in the New Year! Miroslav
Dear Prof. Balda Happy New Year I have a question form the LMFnlsq: Currently I am working on a problem that I should numerically solve a nonlinear equation, that the result will be complex numbers. I googles it and then there are two solution I have found; One of them is with your code and the other one is with the fminsearch: I checked the solutions for the simple problem:
" clc clear all close all
[x,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq(fx,[0.1;1.5]) [sol,fval]=fminsearch(fx,[0.1;1.5]) " The results of the above equation are:
" x =
-0.0004 1.0009
ssq =
cnt =
sol =
0.0000 1.0000
fval =
6.7954e-05 " I wondering that it is possible to use your code in this case and any special option should be chosen for that? Thank you very much Best Regards
Dear Prof. Balda, I apologise for jumping to conclusions. You are correct and I have a test here that shows how LMFnlsq gives the same results as nlinfit and lsqnonlin.
hu1 = @(b,x) (b(1)*x(:,2) - x(:,3)/b(5))./(1 + b(2)*x(:,1) + b(3)*x(:,2) + b(4)*x(:,3)); x1=[470 285 470 470 470 100 100 470 100 100 100 285 285]'; x2=[300 80 300 80 80 190 80 190 300 300 80 300 190]'; x3=[10 10 120 120 10 10 65 65 54 120 120 10 120]'; y=[8.55 3.79 4.82 0.02 2.75 14.39 2.54 4.35 13.00 8.50 0.05 11.32 3.13]'; x=[x1 x2 x3]; beta=[1 0.05 0.02 0.1 2]; [betahat,f,J]=nlinfit(x,y,hu1,beta); disp(betahat); % 1.2526 0.0628 0.0400 0.1124 1.1914
fun = @(b) (b(1)*x2 - x3/b(5))./(1 + b(2)*x1 + b(3)*x2 + b(4)*x3) - y; [C,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq(fun, beta, 'Display',[-10,0], 'FunTol',1e-10); disp(C); % 1.2526 0.0628 0.0400 0.1124 1.1914
lsqnonlin(fun, beta) % 1.2526 0.0628 0.0400 0.1124 1.1914
@Jose There are no bugs in LMFnlsq and LMFnlsq2 that you have anounced. There is an error in the data, because all vectors x1, x2, x3, and y should be COLUMN vectors. More to it, the division operator in fun should be an array operator './'. The repaired code follows:
% Repaired data: Column vectors! x1 = [470, 285, 470, 470, 470, 100, 100, 470, 100, 100, 100, 285, 285]'; x2 = [300, 80, 300, 80, 80, 190, 80, 190, 300, 300, 80, 300, 190]'; x3 = [ 10, 10, 120, 120, 10, 10, 65, 65, 54, 120, 120, 10, 120]'; y = [8.55, 3.79, 4.82, 0.02, 2.75, 14.39, 2.54, 4.35, 13.00, 8.50, 0.05, 11.32, 3.13]'; b0 = rand(5,1); fun = @(b) (b(1)*x2 - x3/b(5))./(1 + b(2)*x1 + b(3)*x2 + b(4)*x3) - y; % ./ [C,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq2(fun, b0, 'Display',[-10,0], 'FunTol',1e-10);
Dear Prof. Balda, There is a bug on both LMFnlsq and LMFnlsq2, as shown in the code:
x1 = [470, 285, 470, 470, 470, 100, 100, 470, 100, 100, 100, 285, 285]; x2 = [300, 80, 300, 80, 80, 190, 80, 190, 300, 300, 80, 300, 190]; x3 = [ 10, 10, 120, 120, 10, 10, 65, 65, 54, 120, 120, 10, 120]; y = [8.55, 3.79, 4.82, 0.02, 2.75, 14.39, 2.54, 4.35, 13.00, 8.50, 0.05, 11.32, 3.13]; fun = @(b) ( b(1)*x2 - x3/b(5) )/(1 + b(2)*x1 + b(3)*x2 + b(4)*x3) - y; [C,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq(fun, ones(5,1))
Error using * Inner matrix dimensions must agree.
Error in LMFnlsq>getAv (line 434) v = J'*r;
Error in LMFnlsq (line 279) [A,v] = getAv(FUN,JAC,x,r,epsx);
That's a good contribution for LM fitting. I use it without constraints/restraints.
@Jose Yes, your residuals are in order, but the brackets. However, we apply penalty functions in case, when we want to constrain a solution. Your proposal does not influence the solution at all, because all iterations remain in the square of the side = 4. You may try what happens, if you introduce bounds +-0.5 or +-0.25. Try it. Or look at the example from LMFnlsqtest file, where is more complex (circular) area, where the solution should be.
Weights are active only for current iteration outside bounds. It means, that it is not necessary to try to find "optimal" weights, because no optimal weight exists. The solution should be insensitive to the weight value. Therefore, only residuals corresponding penalty functions have to generate bigger residuals than other equations to keep iterations within bounds, where they are zero.. It may be very fast to guess that w=(10 up to 1000) could be appropriate. The final solution may not depend on the right value of the weight.
Dear Prof. Balda, Thank you so much, I understand it better now! For the bounded Rosenbrock problem: -2 <= x[1] <= 2 -2 <= x[2] <= 2 We need 4 penalty functions: (x[1]>2)*(x[1]-2)*w2, (x[1]<-2)*(x[1]+2)*w2, (x[2]>2)*(x[2]-2)*w2, (x[2]<-2)*(x[2]+2)*w2 And we try several values for w2, for example 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, ..., 1.9 to get the "best" value for w2. Is this correct?
@Jose 3.4.2013 No, it can not operate due to three reasons: 1. Formally, the chosen interval does not reduce the domain of feasible solution, that is within the interval. However, the most important reasons are: 2. your condition (x(2)>2)*(x(2)<-2)*x(2)*w2 is a combination of two conditions. Thus you have to set up two residuals: (x(2)>2)*(x(2)-2)*w2; (x(2)<-2)*(x(2)+2)*w2; Both residuals are zero for false condition, however they are linearly dependent on the distance from the limit value due to the second term (before the weight w2). 3. your proposed condition is identically equal zero, because the product of two logical terms equals zero for any x.
The weight w2 should be chosen carefully in such a way that it gives the solution just on the limit in case when the minimum lays outside the interval. It should be not to small and simultaneously not too large.
Dear Prof. Balda, Thank you for your reply. So, for the Rosenbrock problem with bounds: -2 <= x <= 2 The penalty function is: (x(2) > 2)*(x(2) < -2)*x(2)*w2 What is the best way to find experimentally w2?
@Kat I am preparing the function npeaks.m that decomposes a function into a sum of Gaussian functions with the use of LMFnlsq function. It will occur in a short time.
@Jose Bounds can be introduced by additional residuals in the form of penalty functions. The residual (x(4)<0)*x(4)*w4 will keep x(4) nonnegative, if the user-defined weight w4 be suitable positive real value. It should be found experimentally.
Dear Prof. Balda, Excellent results, thank you for sharing!
How can we add parameter bounds?
My data looks a bit like a Gaussian (Normal) curve. I fitted it using 1, 2, 3 and 4 gaussians added together where the sigmas, centre positions and heights were variable. It worked well for the 2 and 4 gaussians. I noticed for function with odd number of gaussians added together as 'res', the final fit (based on the x values outputted after cnt # of iterations) height doesn't match the data. i.e if you just make a simple Gaussian function as the data you want to fit and have your guess function as a Gaussian with the same parameters you created the data with, the final x residual/variables will not be the same. The height will be off by a noticeable amount. This only happened with odd numbers though. For even number of gaussians added together in the 'guess' fit, it worked perfectly.
@prof misrolav balda here is my question in mathlab answer http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/65291-imaginary-value-from-solution-nonlinier-least-square check it there please
@ prof Misrolav Balda actually my data consist from so many wavelength but this i give you from two wavelength for 690nm F = [0.779543143 0.624771688 0.387776261 0.266986051 0.174732672 0.130313689 0.110540421 0.051412959]
a is in range = 0.09 - 0.8 b is in range = 7 - 15
for c = [0.8 0.9 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.6]
i always get the imaginary solution with your code, please help me
I figured it out! it took a while, i just split the function in half and kept the rest of the form the same res=@(y)eqn(1)(x<b)+eqn(2)(b<=x). took a few tries to get the syntax right. Thanks for the amazing algorithm!!!
@Surpan Your problem is solvable after introducing new variable d=a+b and constraints on the variables to be real. If you send me your data, I'll try to solve it.
hi im trying to contcat you by email because i need to solve my case so i ended up here
i have function with 2 parameter, like this F = (0.6/(a + b))*(sqrt(3*a*(a + b))+(1/c))*(exp(-sqrt(3*a*(a + b ))*c))/(c^2)
F is known reflectance data a and b is parameter c is known vector distance
can i use LMFnlsq to solve that with lavenberg marquardt algorithm? im tring to use that code but the solution give me imaginary a and b
I'm fitting with a discontinuous function. My data resembles a normal curve, but is wider on one side so I hope to fit it with 2 halves of a normal curve with different sigmas (spreads) on either side of the centre point. How do I input this into the res function. The residuals are the height, the two sigmas and the centrepoint. Furthermore, will the fact that the centre is what I'm trying to make more accurate a big problem if I'm using it to identify which side of the function (which sigma) I'm on?
The algorithm LMFnlsq is able to find the best approximation of a set of points by a curve supplied by the user. The curve is described by a formula with a number of (at tne beginning] unknown parameters. The function LMFnlsq modifies values of the parameters in such a way that a sum of squares of differences between the measured points and values of the function at positions corresponding the measuted points becomes minimum. In your case, you may chose all pixels describing a rib as the measured set of points, and should the form of a suitable function be known, the function LMFnlsq might be used for finding the optimum parameters of the function.
Dear Prof Balda,
I have a case where I need to fit multiple curve in one image. The image is a rough trace of ribs in BW from chest x-ray. The ribs are processed one side at a time (left and right). I want to use multiple curve fitting to get the exact curve of each rib for left/right. I would like to know if this algorithm is able to solve my problem. Please advise, and many thanks in advance.
very useful, thanks!
I thank you so much for providing this code. Implementation has its own challenges but your code worked like a charm to show how beautifully theory and practice meet. With good initial estimates, the algorithm converged in only a few iterations.
FYI: I used it for T1 estimation in MR where the equations in our case were much more complicated than single exponential recovery equations.
Man thank you so much, it was amazing!
I was using analytical Jacobian. I also will not obey your evaluation that a failed lsqcurvefit does not deserve a 1 star. The NIST solutions are tested using different methods (hence the standard deviation is also available), so failing even one of them means there are codes out there that performs better, even using the poor starting condition.
Furthermore, 3 of the 5 failure cases are observed data. They are not some cooked up example designed to cause the optimization to fail. Therefore, if used in real world examples, there is a possibility that it will not work. I am simply letting everybody know a caveat cantor that the program solution should be treated with a grain of salt, even if the sum of squares dropped by 8 orders. Although as the website says, passing all tests is not a pre-requisite to be a good optimization software, but don't you think not passing the tests from an agency that establishes industry standards would not be considered as "industry standard"?
I admit giving it 1 star is too aggressive. I do this to get your attention to respond. Indeed it worked. Unfortunately I can't go back and change it. Because this program works for all easy to intermediate difficulty problems, it deserves a 4 star.
@ David: I thank you for thorough testing of my function LMFnlsq. You have found that 5 functions of the highest difficulty out of total 27 failed. It is true only partially. They failed only for the most bad initial estimates of the solution. The good solution has been obtained with the more close estimate for all above examples but Bennett5. In this case only one digit of sum of squares was valid, however, when sum of squares dropped by 8 orders! All those results have been obtained with embedded function for finite difference Jacobian matrix estimates, what strongly diminishes precission of results. Only analytical Jacobian matrix ensures top result. I am affraid that you also used finite difference approximates.
The NIST collection of testing problems is only a recommendation for software authors. In contrary to your opinion, I am satisfied by the results I have obtained. Especially, after testing a less difficult problem Hahn1, which converged for both estimates of the solution, while the function lsqcurvefit from the Optimization Toolbox (OT) did not find any solution. Would you evaluate it also by one star? Not me, because OT is much better. However, my function is smaler and takes fewer iterations to solve the problem. This is the reason, why I regard your evaluation as a bad joke. One star means: "withdraw your function from FEX!". I will not obey your evaluation, because there are hundreds and may be thousands of people who downloaded and successfully applied my function for solving their problems. Some of them gave the function the top evaluation, even that I never did not declare it as an "industry standard".
By the way, the failures occurs in
MGH17 BoxBOD MGH10 Eckerle4 Bennett5
This doesn't work for all the least square tests established by the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST).
So this can't be called the industry standard.
Works fast and well! However, it has a HUGE learning curve if you don't write code at a very high level...the included examples I found to be less than completely understandable to me, and don't work unless you know how to use them. Instead, here is a VERY SIMPLE program that uses this algorithm to fit a function to a simulated dataset. I took it and modified it from a forum post elsewhere on the internets. Recall that chi^2 = sum(((x - mu)/sigma).^2), and the point of this function is to determine what parameters in mu minimize chi^2:
% Ender 2008-07-08 a = 10, b = -8, c = -.2 %Model parameters t = (0:.01:1)'; %should be a column vector
data = a + b*(1-exp(t/c)) + .1*randn(size(t)); %Function plus random error; simulates data
res = @(x) data - (x(1) + x(2)*(1-exp(t/x(3))) ); %Numerator of chi^2, with quantity squared implied for fitting in LMFnlsq; also known as residuals
x0 = [5,3,-.1]; %rather poor initial guess of parameters
[x,ssq,cnt] = LMFnlsq(res,x0) %Returns the parameter values which minimized the value of the numerator
%Plot the data hold on plot(t,data) plot(t,(x(1) + x(2)*(1-exp(t/x(3)))),'r'), grid
This program is excellent. I found that it was able to do my nonlinear regression very quickly, with multiple quick and easy options for both analysis and displaying the data correctly. Further, once you figure out how to use the function, performing a nonlinear regression was quite easy.
However, trying to initially figure out how to use the software was quite hard =P. I initially attempted to follow the instructions posted here, which are not complete or correct in its explanation or equations. Once I discovered the included test file, which is correct and will run, I was able to copy and paste the relevant section of code (example 3) into matlab and get instant results. I was then able to pick apart and transform the example for my own purposes. Figuring all that out took quite a while. I took off one star for that upset, but it's really an excellent software package!
This function was extremely helpful for the problem I'm working on: least-squares fit to multidimensional rational polynomials.
Thanks very much!
This is an excellent improvement to LMFsolve, which I only became aware of today. This upgrade has considerably improved some of my existing analyses. Convergence is now 100% for my problem.
Many thanks Miroslav!
Read my answer dated 04 jun 2009. I'll answer you later by e-mail.
I want to do curve fitting of some laboratory results with a model. The model which I want to use can not explained by a single function, but is explained by a series of differential equations. In this case, I do not know how to apply LMFnlsq. It is very helpful if you give any advice.
(I am applying "fminsearch" to this problem so far, but the description of "fminsearch" mentions that this code is not suitable to this kind of problems.)
Very nice
This part of the submission is intended for Comments and Ratings. More over, I pleased anybody to write me by e-mail on errors and improvements, see the section Other requirements. This is the reason why I'll not communicate here anymore.
how can I give an interval for the results, i don't need negative values for answers or I need some answers higher than some values,
you also helped me before Mira
i try to run the Example Rosenbrock's function ( SQP)with "xy" in the output arguments ..but it not work ...it shows xy =[ ] empty matrix...can any body clear this to me?...
function ros = rosen(x) d = sqrt(x(1)^2+x(2)^2)-1.5; r=1.5; ros = [ 10*(x(2)-x(1)^2) % first part, f1(x) 1-x(1) % second part, f2(x) (d>0)*d*1000 ];
x0=[-1.9,2]; >> options=LMFnlsq; >> [x,ssq,cnt,nfJ,XY] = LMFnlsq('rosen',x0,options)
Professor Blada: I truly apprecate you helping me out to solve nonlinear equation. Your code worked beautifully for me and thanks again for your prompt feedback in weekend time. Thanks again, Dr. Balda.
This is a great bit of code that does exactly what it says. I used it to replace lsqcurvefit as I no longer have the optimisation toolbox.
I would suggest that the author also considers using additional examples, as the ones given are very complicated to understand if you come from a very different field. However, after a little search I found this by the author, which I found much more useful: http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=6283753&tstart=0
It tells you how to use the function to fit a curve to some data. This should be easily modified for fitting other functions/data etc.
Works well, thanks.
For others who may be looking for the LMFtest dependencies, they are file ID numbers 9033, 9035 and 11725 (as documented in the pdf file appendix).
I tested the function LMFnlsq once again after reading your comments and an evaluation. I am sorry with you that you are not able to copy and paste ascii lines without errors. You did not try the script LMFtest, which is included in the zip file together with LMFnlsq, where you could get results without any copying. Was it sou difficult to look at it and find how to use the function LMFnlsq. I am afraid of the reaction of other people, who could use even better function than that they may find in the Optimization Toolbox, but seeing your evaluation they will pass it. It is not fair. I thing that you evaluated you yourself.
The solution does not work. I get an error whenever I copy and paste the code than run it on MATLAB
Formal changes of the description for better outlook.
Improved functionality, removed bug in assembling analytical Jacobian matrix, complemented example for curve fitting.
Implemented new subfunction for printing intermediate results, modifiedcation both the function and a testing script code. The description has been complemented by a description of the LMF method.
Improved description (help), improved printing of results, complemented results of NIST test by BoxBOD problem.
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Aston Martin is continuing its centenary celebrations, this time at the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai.
They airlifted an Aston Martin Vanquish on top of the seven-star, sail-shaped hotel's helipad as an action which tries to showcase Aston Martin as a globally renowned luxury car brand. This is the first time the Vanquish has been placed onto a helipad sitting 1,000ft above the ground.
As a reminder, Aston Martin will be launching Centenary Editions of all its models in the lineup and each will be limited to only 100 units. The first car from the series is the Vanquish which has received a special paint, bespoke badges and minor changes inside the cabin. The Vanquish will be followed by the V8 Vantage, DB9 and Rapide.
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question- how can any land their helicopter on the heli pad now??
January 19, 2013 7:51 am
Vanquish is a nice car, As for on top of the roof thing...they really wanna sell these babies.
January 18, 2013 1:38 pm
Talk about waste of money and resources, Dubai - guess they could find any place closer to home, where the true heritage of AM, say like England. Well guess most of the sales some from dead beats who have way too much money to know what to really do with it.
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Message to the Haters of the NOI & Min. Louis Farrakhan !!!
by Sistar Cassandra in Culture
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We will briefly give additional info for The Fall of America, some Disaster Preparedness tools, then finish the reminder of the program addressing the Haters of the Nation of Islam and the Honorable minister Louis Farrakhan...
Pastor Shelia Louis "Before & After You Say I Do"pt4
by The Christian View in Christianity
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"Before & After You Say I Do" Part 4 Pastor Shelia Louis of Tabernacle of David International Worship Center in Midwest City, OK *Question/Comment: What should two people do before they get married. "Shouldn't they discuss what their individual view of marriage looks like to them? " YES
What will He expect of his wife; what will She expect of her husband?
*Question/Comment: How do you make amends after a heated exchange or argument?
The two people should pre-agree to walk away, leave it for a while (24 hrs), pray about it--taking your Bible so that the Word reveals both sides, come back later, stay in peace, (stay humble--cool, calm) don't become defensive. At least one person needs to stand firm on the word of God, don't coward down.
Recognize the spirit that's working in the person, take authority over that spirit but show love to the person-- it's not the real person, but the spirit that's working in them or the person acting out in the flesh.
Stay in the Word, stay in scriptures of peace and the love of God. Keep yourself built up in the Word.
*Question/Comment: Explore the Family History on both sides.
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The Age of Wire and String (American Literature)by Ben Marcus
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection--part fiction, part handbook--as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces new feelings and sensations--both comic and disturbing--in the definitive guide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence.
Synopsis:"A rare, genius-struck achievement . . . filled with great beauties, high themes, enormous sorrows."--Kirkus Reviews
About the AuthorBen Marcus's work has appeared in Grand Street, McSweeney's, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University and the author of two books, the novel Notable American Women and the story collection The Age of Wire and String. He lives in New York City.
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