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MATH3609 Optimization, Networks and Graphs:
Coursework 1 and Coursework 2
Dr Nathan Broomhead and Dr Julian Stander
Module Taught in Semester 2, Academic Year 2020/21
1 General Information about Coursework 1 and
Coursework 2
Please read the following points before attempting the courseworks:
The deadline for both Coursework 1 and Coursework 2 is 10 am on Thursday, 22nd
April, 2022. You should submit Coursework 1 and Coursework 2 separately through
the MATH3609 Optimization, Networks and Graphs DLE site. Your submission will be
marked anonymously.
Coursework 1 and Coursework 2 are Group Courseworks. Please work in
a self-assigned group of up to four people. You will need to register your
group on the DLE in the usual way.
Within each coursework, each member of the group will receive the same mark, unless
any member chooses to make use of the Peer Assessment option. You should keep notes
of all your group meetings to use as evidence in case you choose to make use of the Peer
Assessment option. If you wish to make use of the Peer Assessment option, you will need
to make an appointment to see Dr Nathan Broomhead or Dr Julian Stander.
You should give due consideration to your personal time management to ensure that
your work is submitted in plenty of time prior to the deadline. For further information,
please consult the Student Handbook
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Each member of the group can expect to spend up to around 15 hours on Coursework 1
and up to around 15 hours on Coursework 2. These suggested times do not include the
preparation work that you will need to do.
Each coursework counts for 15% = 12 × 30% of your final mark on this module. Marks
will be assigned according to the marking grids on pages 26 and 30.
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Marked scripts will be returned within 20 working days of the submission date, and,
in particular, you will get full feedback on your work by Friday, 21st May, 2021, unless
extensions are used.
You are reminded of the University’s Academic Regulations:
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(including any attempt to carry out the actions described) as academic offences, regardless
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We now state the relevant MATH3609 Optimization, Networks and Graphs Assessed Learning
Outcomes (ALOs) for this assignment.
At the end of the module the learner will be expected to be able to:
ALO1 Develop and analyse methods for the solution of optimisation problems;
ALO3 Demonstrate an understanding of the underlying concepts of graph theory;
ALO4 Use computer software for the solution of optimisation problems and report the
results.
You should keep these ALOs in mind when working on these courseworks.
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2 Image Restoration: Preparation Work
You should study this section carefully. There has also been a lecture on it.
2.1 The Basic Idea
Let us begin by reading in an image and displaying it.
# Set the working directory
# This is where the image R_image_binary.csv is stored
#
# Please note that your working directory will be different
# from ours (only one of which is needed)
#
## setwd(“/Users/julianstander/Dropbox/MATH3609_CW_2020_2021”)
#
setwd(“/Users/nbroomhead/Dropbox/MATH3609_CW_2020_2021”)
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R_logo <- as.matrix(read.table("R_image_binary.csv", sep = ",")) # The image is thought of as a matrix # image(R_logo, col = c("black", "white")) 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 0. 0 0. 2 0. 4 0. 6 0. 8 1. 0 Please note that this image is a binary image. It comprises two ‘colours’, black and white. In Coursework 1 and Coursework 2 we work exclusively with binary images for simplicity. We will discuss the axes labels later. 3 Unfortunately, often images are received in a degraded or noisy form such as 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 0. 0 0. 2 0. 4 0. 6 0. 8 1. 0 This could be because they are observed and then transmitted by a satellite and so are subject to atmospheric distortions. Similarly, medical images are often distorted in some way; just think of an ultrasound image of a baby or even an x-ray or magnetic resonance image when there has been some patient movement. 4 The aim of image restoration is to try to restore the first image 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 0. 0 0. 2 0. 4 0. 6 0. 8 1. 0 from the degraded image 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 0. 0 0. 2 0. 4 0. 6 0. 8 1. 0 5 2.2 Some Mathematical Notation Images are represented as matrices. Here is a small example to fix ideas: x <- matrix(c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1), nrow = 4, byrow = TRUE) # x ## [,1] [,2] [,3] ## [1,] 0 0 0 ## [2,] 0 0 1 ## [3,] 1 1 1 ## [4,] 0 0 1 # # Dimension # dim(x) ## [1] 4 3 nrow(x) ## [1] 4 ncol(x) ## [1] 3 # # Specific # x[1, 2] ## [1] 0 x[3, 1] ## [1] 1 So the image that is stored in the R object x comprises 4 rows and 3 columns. The value taken by the image in row 1, column 2 is 0 corresponding to black, while the value taken by the image in row 3, column 1 is 1 corresponding to white. We say that the above image comprises 4× 3 = 12 pixels. We shall use i to index the pixels: here i = 1, . . . , n = 12, where n is the total number of pixels. The value taken at pixel i is denoted xi, where xi can take the values 0 for black or 1 for white: xi ∈ {0,1}. This enables us to write the whole image as the vector x = (x1, . . . , xn). 6 We label the pixels column by column: Columns R ow s i = 1 or ( 1 , 1 ) i = 2 or ( 2 , 1 ) i = 3 or ( 3 , 1 ) i = 4 or ( 4 , 1 ) i = 5 or ( 1 , 2 ) i = 6 or ( 2 , 2 ) i = 7 or ( 3 , 2 ) i = 8 or ( 4 , 2 ) i = 9 or ( 1 , 3 ) i = 10 or ( 2 , 3 ) i = 11 or ( 3 , 3 ) i = 12 or ( 4 , 3 ) 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 So that x ## [,1] [,2] [,3] ## [1,] 0 0 0 ## [2,] 0 0 1 ## [3,] 1 1 1 ## [4,] 0 0 1 is the vector as.vector(x) ## [1] 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 or x = (x1, x2, . . . , x12) = (0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,1,1). 7 Please note that in Columns R ow s i = 1 or ( 1 , 1 ) i = 2 or ( 2 , 1 ) i = 3 or ( 3 , 1 ) i = 4 or ( 4 , 1 ) i = 5 or ( 1 , 2 ) i = 6 or ( 2 , 2 ) i = 7 or ( 3 , 2 ) i = 8 or ( 4 , 2 ) i = 9 or ( 1 , 3 ) i = 10 or ( 2 , 3 ) i = 11 or ( 3 , 3 ) i = 12 or ( 4 , 3 ) 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 we also show the row and column numbers in brackets. We will not usually use these, but they are added here for information. A point to notice is that the column labels increase from left to right, while the row labels increase from top to bottom which is different from standard Cartesian co-ordinates. 8 Let’s consider how R draws an image using its image function x ## [,1] [,2] [,3] ## [1,] 0 0 0 ## [2,] 0 0 1 ## [3,] 1 1 1 ## [4,] 0 0 1 # image(x, col = c("black", "white")) 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 0. 2 0. 2 0. 6 1. 0 # # Or with better labels # n_row <- nrow(x) # Number of rows in x n_row ## [1] 4 # n_col <- ncol(x) # Number of columns in x n_col ## [1] 3 # image(1:n_row, # Label the rows 1:n_col, # Label the columns x, col = c("black", "white"), xlab = "Row number", 9 ylab = "Column number", axes = FALSE) # axis(1, 1:n_row) axis(2, 1:n_col) Row number Co lu m n nu m be r 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 So R thinks of the horizontal axis as representing row number, and the vertical axis as representing column number, just like standard Cartesian co-ordinates: (row i, column j) =(horizontal co-ordinate x,vertical co-ordinate y). This means that the first column of the matrix x is plotted horizontally at the bottom, the middle column of x is plotted horizontally in the middle, and the final column of x is plotted horizontally at the top. These plotting details are not important for what will come. However, we give them here for information. 10 2.3 A Little More Mathematical Notation We have seen that in practice we observe a degraded version of a ‘true’ image such as: 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 0. 0 0. 2 0. 4 0. 6 0. 8 1. 0 We refer to this observed or degraded image using the vector y = (y1, . . . , yn), where n is the number of pixels. Here yi ∈ {0,1}, i = 1, . . . , n. 11 2.4 Some Literature and Other Irrelevant Information In scientific writing, we should always give credit where credit is due. Many people have contributed to statistical image restoration. The following are but two references among a great many: Besag, J. E. (1986) On the statistical analysis of dirty pictures (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 48, 259–302. Geman, D. and Geman, S. (1984) Stochastic relaxation, Gibbs distributions and the Bayesian restoration of images. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 6, 721–41. Coursework 1 and Coursework 2 are based on the work of Greig, D. M., Porteous, B. T. and Seheult, A. H. (1989) Maximum a posteriori estimation for binary images. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 51, 271–279. Greig, Porteous and Seheult (1989) assume black is coded as 1 and white as 0. In Coursework 1 and Coursework 2, we use take 1 to represent white and 0 to represent black, as this is more natural and usual. The work of Greig, Porteous and Seheult (1989) was expanded on in these works: Jubb, M. D. (1989) Image Reconstruction. PhD thesis. University of Bath. Stander, J. (1992) Some Topics in Statistical Image Analysis. PhD thesis. University of Bath. Stander, J. and Silverman, B. W. (1994) Temperature schedules for simulated annealing. Statistics and Computing, 4, 21–32. Franconi, L. and Jennison, C. (1997) Comparison of a genetric algorithm and simulated annealing in an application to statistical image reconstruction. Statistics and Computing, 7, 193–207. No knowledge of any of this literature is assumed in either Coursework 1 or Coursework 2. We end this section by remarking that images are not usually binary. Often each pixel can take a grey level so that xi ∈ {0,1, . . . ,255} where 0 is black and 255 is white for example, or a colour, which is more complicated to represent. We work with binary images to keep life relatively simple, as this may be the first time that you have met image reconstruction problems. 12 2.5 Statistical Models Image restoration proceeds by specifying statistical models for possible true images x =(x1, . . . , xn) and for degraded images y = (y1, . . . , yn). Please note that this is not a statistics module, so not all the details that we present here are needed for you to be able to do Coursework 1 or Coursework 2. We include these details to explain how the image restoration problem can be expressed as an optimization problem. It is with that optimization problem that we shall work. 2.6 A Statistical Model for y given x We will assume the following statistical model for yi given xi: Pr(yi = 0 ∣xi = 0) = 1 p (no error made, no swap) Pr(yi = 1 ∣xi = 0) = p (error made, swap from 0 to 1) Pr(yi = 0 ∣xi = 1) = p (error made, swap from 1 to 0) Pr(yi = 1 ∣xi = 1) = 1 p (no error made, no swap) Essentially, we are assuming that the colour at pixel i is swapped from black to white, or from white to black, with probability p ∈ [0,1]; otherwise, it is not changed. For simplicity, we assume that p is known. We assume that the error mechanism at each pixel is independent of the error mechanisms at every other pixel. This enables us to write down Pr(y ∣x): Pr(y ∣x) = n∏ i=1 Pr(yi ∣xi). Let’s recall that the degraded image y is observed, while the ‘true’ image x is unknown and needs to be estimated. Thought of as a function of the unknown image vector x, Pr(y ∣x) is the likelihood function that you may have met in MATH2602 Statistical Inference and Regression or MATH3613 Data Modelling. We shall write L(y ∣x) = Pr(y ∣x). 13 Now let’s write f(yi ∣xi) = Pr(yi ∣xi), so that f(1 ∣0) = Pr(yi = 1 ∣xi = 0) for example. We have L(y ∣x) = Pr(y ∣x) = n∏ i=1 Pr(yi ∣xi) = n∏ i=1 f(yi ∣1)xif(yi ∣0)1 xi , since f(yi ∣1)xif(yi ∣0)1 xi = f(yi ∣1) if xi = 1 and f(yi ∣0) if xi = 0. From this it follows that L(y ∣x) = n∏ i=1 f(yi ∣0) × {f(yi ∣1)f(yi ∣0)} xi . (1) Later, we will use λi, which is defined as follows: λi = log{f(yi ∣1) f(yi ∣0)} . (2) Please note that λi only depends on the observed yi and not on xi. Please also note that, if yi = 0, then λi = log{f(yi ∣1) f(yi ∣0)} = log{f(0 ∣1)f(0 ∣0)} = log ( p1 p) , while, if yi = 1, then λi = log{f(yi ∣1) f(yi ∣0)} = log{f(1 ∣1)f(1 ∣0)} = log (1 pp ) . 14 2.7 A Statistical Model for x To define a statistical model for x, we need to explain what it means for two pixels to be neighbours. This can be done by the following picture Columns R ow s i = 1 or ( 1 , 1 ) i = 2 or ( 2 , 1 ) i = 3 or ( 3 , 1 ) i = 4 or ( 4 , 1 ) i = 5 or ( 1 , 2 ) i = 6 or ( 2 , 2 ) i = 7 or ( 3 , 2 ) i = 8 or ( 4 , 2 ) i = 9 or ( 1 , 3 ) i = 10 or ( 2 , 3 ) i = 11 or ( 3 , 3 ) i = 12 or ( 4 , 3 ) 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 The red and blue lines indicate neighbouring pixles; we use blue to indicate horizontal neighbours and red to indicate vertical neighbours, although this distinction is not important. As an example we see that the neighbours of pixel i = 6 are 5, 10, 7 and 2. It turns out that it simpler to assume that the image is wrapped on a torus, so that, for example the neighbours of pixel i = 1 are 4 (wrapped top to bottom), 5, 2 and 9 (wrapped left to right). This assumption has very little practical effect for large images, but it does mean that every pixel has four neighbours. 15 These neighbourhood relationships lead to a symmetric adjacency matrix A, which here will be of dimension n × n = 12 × 12: ## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10] [,11] [,12] ## [1,] 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ## [2,] 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 ## [3,] 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 ## [4,] 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 ## [5,] 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 ## [6,] 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 ## [7,] 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 ## [8,] 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 ## [9,] 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 ## [10,] 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 ## [11,] 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 ## [12,] 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 Do you understand why 16 We can now define a probability mass function on images x as Pr(x) = exp ( β × number of discrepant neighbouring pairs in x)∑images x′ exp ( β × number of discrepant neighbouring pairs in x′) , in which β ≥ 0 is a constant that we will discuss later. The sum over all images x′ comprises 2n terms, where n is the number of pixels, and can be very hard to compute when n is large. As this sum does not depend on the argument x of Pr(x), we can discard it, if we replace the equality with a ‘proportional to’ sign. So we write Pr(x)∝ exp ( β × number of discrepant neighbouring pairs in x) . For the image x that we have been working with: ## [,1] [,2] [,3] ## [1,] 0 0 0 ## [2,] 0 0 1 ## [3,] 1 1 1 ## [4,] 0 0 1 the number of discrepant neighbouring pairs is 10: Columns R ow s 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 Hence, the probability of this image is Pr(x) = C exp( β × 10), where C is a constant. 17 Similarly, the number of discrepant neighbouring pixels in the all black and the all white images is, unsurprisingly, 0: Columns R ow s 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 Columns R ow s 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 This means that the all black and the all white images are the most probable with probabilities C exp(β × 0) = C each. 18 The chess-board image is the least probable, as it has the highest number of discrepant neighbouring pixels: Columns R ow s 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 There are 20 discrepant pairs, meaning that the

probability of the chess board image is
C exp( β × 20).
You may be asking: what does β ≥ 0 do The larger the value of β, the higher the relative
probabity given to the all black and to the all white image. In other words, higher β values
encourage ‘smoother’ images. Because of this, sometimes β is referred to as a smoothing
parameter.
Finally, we remark that our probability model for images x,
Pr(x)∝ exp ( β × number of discrepant neighbouring pairs in x) ,
is essentially the same as the Ising model used a lot in physics and statistical mechanics
to represent substances such as magnets. To quote Federico Camia: ‘The Ising model,
introduced by Lenz in 1920 to describe ferromagnetism, is one of the most studied models
of statistical mechanics. Its two dimensional version has played a special role in rigorous
statistical mechanics since Peierls’ proof of a phase transition in 1936 and Onsager’s derivation
of the free energy in 1944.’
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It can be shown that the
number of discrepant neighbouring pairs in x = 12 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2 ,
in which x = (x1, . . . , xn) is an image and aij is the (i, j)-th element of the adjacence matrix
A such that
aij = {1 if pixels i and j are neighbours0 if pixels i and j are not neighbours.
A consequence of this result is that
Pr(x) ∝ exp ( β × number of discrepant neighbouring pairs in x)
= exp( β × 12 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2)
= exp( β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2) . (3)
Another irrelevant fact is that more general probability mass functions can be defined by
replacing (xi xj)2 with φ (xi xj) where the function φ satisfies certain properties.
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2.8 A Statistical Model for x given y
It makes sense to consider Pr(x ∣ y), as we are given the observed image y. Pr(x ∣ y) can be
found using Bayes’ theorem as follows:
Pr(x ∣ y) ∝ L(y ∣x) ×Pr(x)
∝ n∏
i=1 f(yi ∣0) × {f(yi ∣1)f(yi ∣0)}
xi ×Pr(x) from (1)
∝ n∏
i=1 f(yi ∣0) × {f(yi ∣1)f(yi ∣0)}
xi × exp( β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2) from (3) (4)
In the language of Bayesian statistical inference, Pr(x) is the prior probability mass
function of all images x before observing the degraded image y. Pr(x) expresses our belief
about x before seeing the data in terms of probabilities. Pr(x ∣ y) is our belief about x after
seeing the data y and is referred to as our posterior probability mass function.
Please note that, as mentioned, it does not matter if you do not follow all these details,
although they are not hard. The important part is that image restoration leads to an
optimization problem, as we shall see.
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2.9 The Restoration of a Binary Image as an Optimization Problem
The restored image is defined as the most probable image under the posterior Pr(x ∣ y).
That is, it is the image x that maximizes Pr(x ∣ y). For this reason it is referred to as the
maximum a posteriori or MAP image.
From (4) we see that the restored image maximizes
Pr(x ∣ y)∝ n∏
i=1 f(yi ∣0) × {f(yi ∣1)f(yi ∣0)}
xi × exp( β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2)
over all images x.
We know that it’s very often easier to work with the logarithm of a function, rather than
the function itself, when maximizing. This is because the logarithm of a function and the
function itself are maximized at the same point, and also because taking logarithms turns
products into sums, which are easier to deal with. So, the restored image maximizes
log {Pr(x ∣ y)} = additive constant D + n∑
i=1 log [f(yi ∣0) × {f(yi ∣1)f(yi ∣0)}
xi] β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2
= D + n∑
i=1 log {f(yi ∣0)} + n∑i=1 log [{f(yi ∣1)f(yi ∣0)}
xi] β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2
= D + n∑
i=1 log {f(yi ∣0)} + n∑i=1 xi log{f(yi ∣1)f(yi ∣0)} β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2
= D + n∑
i=1 log {f(yi ∣0)} + n∑i=1 xiλi β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2 (5)
by the definition of λi in (2).
Please note that ∑ni=1 log {f(yi ∣0)} does not depend on x, and so can be considered a constant.
It therefore follows that we need to maximize
n∑
i=1 xiλi β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2
over x = (x1, . . . , xn), or, equivalently, to minimize
n∑
i=1 xiλi + β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2
over all images x.
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So, we have finally arrived at our image restoration optimization problem. Given a degraded
image y = (y1, . . . , yn), we can find our restored image by solving the problem:
minimize: n∑
i=1 xiλi + β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2 over images x = (x1, . . . , xn). (6)
It can be shown that the minimiation problem given by (6) is equivalent to the problem
minimize:
n∑
i=1(1 xi)max(0, λi) + n∑i=1 ximax(0, λi) + β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2 (7)
over images x, in which max(a, b) means the maximum of a and b, so that, for example,
max(0,1) = 1 and max(0, 1) = 0.
This quantity is never negative.
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2.10 Solving the Minimization Problem using the Ford-Fulkerson
Algorithm
We will now see how Greig, Porteous and Seheult (1989) solved the minimization problem
(7), namely,
minimize:
n∑
i=1(1 xi)max(0, λi) + n∑i=1 ximax(0, λi) + β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2
over images x, using the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm. To do this, Greig, Porteous and Seheult
(1989) defined a network with capacities as follows:
2.10.1 Definition of the Network with Capacities
There are n + 2 vertices:
– A source s;
– A sink t;
– A vertex for each of the n pixels, indexed by i or j below.
If λi > 0, there is an arc (directed edge) (s, i) from the source s to i with capactiy
csi = λi; otherwise
If λi < 0, there is an arc (i, t) from i to the sink t with capactiy cit = λi; There is an undirected edge {i, j} between two internal vertices i and j (that corre- spond to pixels i and j) with capacities cij = β aij. This can be thought of as two arcs, one between i and j, and the other between j and i, both of which have capacities β aij . There are no other arcs. 24 2.10.2 Definition of a Cut Let us say that x = (x1, . . . , xn) is an image that is being proposed as a reconstruction of the observed y = (y1, . . . , yn). Partitioning the Network We can use x to partition the network into two sets: W (x) = {s} ∪ {i ∶ xi = 1}, source s and all white pixels B(x) = {i ∶ xi = 0} ∪ {t}, all black pixels and the sink t. This partition of the vertices in the network into the sets W (x) and B(x) defines a cut. The Cut Capacity The associated cut capacity is C(x) ∶= C( +(W (x))) = ∑ kl∈ +(W (x)) ckl. (8) Notice that the arcs of +(W (x)) are of three types: arcs starting at s; arcs ending at t; arcs between intermediate vertices. The cut capacity (8) can also be written as C(x) = ∑ k∈W (x) ∑l∈B(x) ckl. It turns out that C(x) = n∑ i=1(1 xi)max(0, λi) + n∑i=1 ximax(0, λi) + β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2 , which is exactly the function that we wanted to minimize in (7) to restore the image from y., So, the image restoration problem becomes a max-flow/min-cut problem: we find the cut that minimizes the cut capacity C(x) and this determines x. We can do this using the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm (or modern improvements of it). , We will expand on and explore the above in Coursework 1 and Coursework 2. 25 3 Coursework 1 Marks will be assigned for Coursework 1 according to this marking grid. MATH3609 Optimization, Networks and Graphs: Coursework 1 Marking Grid Assessment Area Maximum Awarded Feedback Mark Mark Task 1: Correctness and va- lidity of argument. Read- ability of explanation. 15 Task 2: Correctness and va- lidity of argument. Read- ability of explanation. 20 Task 3: Correctness and va- lidity of argument. Read- ability of explanation. 10 Task4: Correctness and va- lidity of argument. Read- ability of explanation. 25 Task 5: Correctness and va- lidity of argument. Read- ability of explanation. 15 Task 6: Correctness and va- lidity of argument. Read- ability of explanation. 15 Total1 100 1This mark is provisional. Like all marks it is considered by an External Examiner and an Assessment Panel. 26 3.1 Coursework 1 Tasks Coursework 1 comprises a number of tasks. You need to produce a document containing your solutions to these tasks. These may be hand-written and then scanned or typed up using, for example, LATEX. It is your responsibility to make sure that they are readable. The page limit is fifteen pages. Please note that this is the limit and should not be considered as the target. Well written, clear and concise mathematics will receive high credit. Please arrange your report under subheadings referring to the tasks, that is, Task 1, Task 2, . . .. This will help you to respond systematically to all parts of Coursework 1. The marks for each task are shown in the grid on page 26. Task 1: Let G = (V,E) be a graph with vertex set V = {1,2, . . . , n} and let A be the adjacency matrix of G with (i, j)-th entry aij. Suppose x∶V → {0,1} is a function which assigns to each vertex i a number xi, which is either 0 or 1. A pair of neighbouring vertices i and j are called discrepant if xi ≠ xj. Explain why the number of discrepant neighbouring (unordered) pairs is given by the formula: 1 2 n∑ i=1 n∑ j=1aij (xi xj)2 . Task 2: Explain why the minimization problem given by (6) on page 23 is equivalent to the problem minimize: n∑ i=1(1 xi)max(0, λi) + n∑i=1 ximax(0, λi) + β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2 over images x, in which max(a, b) means the maximum of a and b, so that, for example, max(0,1) = 1 and max(0, 1) = 0. Task 3: Prove that n∑ i=1(1 xi)max(0, λi) + n∑i=1 ximax(0, λi) + β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2 is never negative. Task 4: Prove that C( +(W (x))) = n∑ i=1(1 xi)max(0, λi) + n∑i=1 ximax(0, λi) + β2 n∑i=1 n∑j=1aij (xi xj)2 . Hint: The arcs of +(W (x)) can be split into three types, namely, arcs that start at s, arcs that end at t and arcs between intermediate vertices. Consider the sums of the capacities arcs of each type separately. 27 Task 5: Show that every cut K of the network can be written as K = +(W (x)) for some image x, and deduce using this and the previous tasks that the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm can be used to find a restored image. Task 6: Is there always a unique solution x to the minimization problem (i.e. a unique restored image) Illustrate your answer with an example. 28 3.2 Coursework 1: What You Need to Submit Your group needs to submit the following file electronically using the DLE: A Portable Document Format file MATH3609_Coursework_1_2020_2021.pdf containing your report for Coursework 1. All members of the group should take responsibility for seeing that your work is submitted before the deadline. It is also the responsibility of all members to check that the correct file has been uploaded and that it is readable. If anything is unclear, you should ask without delay. 29 4 Coursework 2 Marks will be assigned for Coursework 2 according to this marking grid. MATH3609 Optimization, Networks and Graphs: Coursework 2 Marking Grid Assessment Area Maximum Awarded Feedback Mark Mark Image Restoration Tasks: Defining the set- up. Correctness, clarity and presentation of code. 25 Image Restoration Tasks: Optimizing, presenting the results, choosing β. Depth of understanding and quality of description of insights gained. 50 Report: display results clearly, concisely, system- atically and professionally, using correct spelling and grammar. This is important for employability. 25 Total2 100 2This mark is provisional. Like all marks it is considered by an External Examiner and an Assessment Panel. 30 4.1 Coursework 2 Tasks Coursework 2 comprises a number of tasks. You need to produce a report of your work following the instructions below. Your report should contain well presented and annotated R code. The page limit is twenty pages, including R code and figures. Please see page 39 for more details. Please do not submit an additional appendix as it will not be considered. Reports that contain irrelevant or uninteresting discussion or R code will be penalized. Please note that twenty pages is the limit and should not be considered as the target. Well written, concise reports will receive high credit. You may also omit lengthy, technical R code, if you feel that it does not add to the argument that you are making. Essential code should, however, be shown. Please arrange your report under subheadings referring to the tasks, that is, Task 1, Task 2, . . .. This will help you to respond systematically to all parts of Coursework 2. 31 4.1.1 Implementing the Ford-Fulkerson Algorithm to Restore the Image in R: Getting Started Following on from the information in the section ‘Image Restoration: Preparation Work’ we will now produce an image restoration from observed data y using the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm implemented in R. First, we need to read y into R. The data that we will use are supplied in the file R_degraded_image_0.2.csv. We can read in and display these data in the same was as we did at the beginning of this document. Here is the code again to make sure that you get started properly: y <- as.matrix(read.table("R_degraded_image_0.2.csv", sep = ",")) # image(y, col = c("black", "white")) 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 0. 0 0. 2 0. 4 0. 6 0. 8 1. 0 # n_row <- nrow(y) n_col <- ncol(y) # c(n_row, n_col) ## [1] 23 28 # y_vec <- as.vector(y) # length(y_vec) ## [1] 644 32 We can label the axes in a possibly nicer way: image(1:n_row, 1:n_col, y, xlab = "Row number", ylab = "Column number", main = "Data: degraded image y", col = c("black", "white")) 5 10 15 20 5 10 15 20 25 Data: degraded image y Row number Co lu m n nu m be r It is not hard to imagine that y is a degraded version of the image in R_logo seen above. It is known that p = 0.2. (In practice, p and any other unknown parameter or parameters can also be estimated form the data by assigning prior distributions to them and sampling from the resulting posterior using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods as discussed in MATH3613 Data Modelling. This is beyond the scope of Coursework 2.) We will assume for now that β = 1. 33 4.1.2 Defining the Vector of λ Values Task 1: Using the function ifelse or otherwise, define the vector of λ values (λ1, . . . , λn) in R and show a few λ values. Identify and record in R which λi values are positive and which λi values are negative using the which function, storing the results in vectors which_lambda_positive and which_lambda_negative respectively. 4.1.3 Defining the Network with Capacities We need to define a data frame comprising three variables or columns called from, to and capacity. This data frame defines the capacities in the network. If, for example, we wish to specify ckl, then the variable from would take the value k, the variable to would take the value l and the variable capacity would take the value ckl. One way to define the required data frame of capacities is to construct three data frames df_source, df_sink and df_internal, and to combine df_source, df_sink and df_internal by binding their rows into one data frame df using rbind. The data frame df_source records the capacities of arcs coming from the source s. Task 2: Define df_source in R. The square brackets [] may help you here. In order to check this, the first few rows of the result are given ## from to capacity ## 1 source 2 1.386294 ## 2 source 3 1.386294 ## 3 source 4 1.386294 ## 4 source 6 1.386294 ## 5 source 7 1.386294 ## 6 source 8 1.386294 The data frame df_sink records the capacities of arcs going to the sink t. Task 3: Define df_sink in R and show a part of it. 34 Before we define df_internal, we need to obtain the adjacency matrix A. This can be done by using the function get_neighbourhood_matrix with which you are supplied in the file of helper functions helper_functions.R; you do not need to understand the details of these helper functions. Please note that get_neighbourhood_matrix is defined using other functions, so that you’ll have to make sure that all the functions in the file of helper functions helper_functions.R are loaded into R. We also need to extract the rows and columns of A corresonding to neighbouring pixels: A <- get_neighbourhood_matrix(y, n_row) # A[1:5, 1:5] ## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] ## [1,] 0 1 0 0 0 ## [2,] 1 0 1 0 0 ## [3,] 0 1 0 1 0 ## [4,] 0 0 1 0 1 ## [5,] 0 0 0 1 0 # neighbouring_pixels <- which(A == 1, arr.