Rolling median algorithm in C

Question

I am currently working on an algorithm to implement a rolling median filter (analogous to a rolling mean filter) in C. From my search of the literature, there appear to be t

Answer 1

Here is the java implementation

package MedianOfIntegerStream;

import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.TreeSet;


public class MedianOfIntegerStream {

    public Set rightMinSet;
    public Set leftMaxSet;
    public int numOfElements;

    public MedianOfIntegerStream() {
        rightMinSet = new TreeSet();
        leftMaxSet = new TreeSet(new DescendingComparator());
        numOfElements = 0;
    }

    public void addNumberToStream(Integer num) {
        leftMaxSet.add(num);

        Iterator iterMax = leftMaxSet.iterator();
        Iterator iterMin = rightMinSet.iterator();
        int maxEl = iterMax.next();
        int minEl = 0;
        if (iterMin.hasNext()) {
            minEl = iterMin.next();
        }

        if (numOfElements % 2 == 0) {
            if (numOfElements == 0) {
                numOfElements++;
                return;
            } else if (maxEl > minEl) {
                iterMax.remove();

                if (minEl != 0) {
                    iterMin.remove();
                }
                leftMaxSet.add(minEl);
                rightMinSet.add(maxEl);
            }
        } else {

            if (maxEl != 0) {
                iterMax.remove();
            }

            rightMinSet.add(maxEl);
        }
        numOfElements++;
    }

    public Double getMedian() {
        if (numOfElements % 2 != 0)
            return new Double(leftMaxSet.iterator().next());
        else
            return (leftMaxSet.iterator().next() + rightMinSet.iterator().next()) / 2.0;
    }

    private class DescendingComparator implements Comparator {
        @Override
        public int compare(Integer o1, Integer o2) {
            return o2 - o1;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MedianOfIntegerStream streamMedian = new MedianOfIntegerStream();

        streamMedian.addNumberToStream(1);
        System.out.println(streamMedian.getMedian()); // should be 1

        streamMedian.addNumberToStream(5);
        streamMedian.addNumberToStream(10);
        streamMedian.addNumberToStream(12);
        streamMedian.addNumberToStream(2);
        System.out.println(streamMedian.getMedian()); // should be 5

        streamMedian.addNumberToStream(3);
        streamMedian.addNumberToStream(8);
        streamMedian.addNumberToStream(9);
        System.out.println(streamMedian.getMedian()); // should be 6.5
    }
}