2 * folded-ctf is an implementation of the folded hierarchy of
3 * classifiers for object detection, developed by Francois Fleuret
6 * Copyright (c) 2008 Idiap Research Institute, http://www.idiap.ch/
7 * Written by Francois Fleuret <francois.fleuret@idiap.ch>
9 * This file is part of folded-ctf.
11 * folded-ctf is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
12 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
13 * by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License,
14 * or (at your option) any later version.
16 * folded-ctf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
17 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
18 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
19 * General Public License for more details.
21 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
22 * along with folded-ctf. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
28 A pool of images is used to avoid having too many images in memory
29 at the same time. It can be either a file, or a subset of another
30 pool of images (see the subclasses).
34 #ifndef LABELLED_IMAGE_POOL_H
35 #define LABELLED_IMAGE_POOL_H
38 #include "labelled_image.h"
40 class LabelledImagePool {
42 virtual ~LabelledImagePool();
43 virtual int nb_images() = 0;
44 // grab_image _DOES NOT_ build the rich structure of the grabbed
45 // image. One has to call compute_rich_structure() explicitely for
47 virtual LabelledImage *grab_image(int n_image) = 0;
48 virtual void release_image(int n_image) = 0;