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 version 3 as
13 * published by the Free Software Foundation.
15 * folded-ctf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
16 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
18 * General Public License for more details.
20 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21 * along with folded-ctf. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
27 A pool of images is used to avoid having too many images in memory
28 at the same time. It can be either a file, or a subset of another
29 pool of images (see the subclasses).
33 #ifndef LABELLED_IMAGE_POOL_H
34 #define LABELLED_IMAGE_POOL_H
37 #include "labelled_image.h"
39 class LabelledImagePool {
41 virtual ~LabelledImagePool();
42 virtual int nb_images() = 0;
43 // grab_image _DOES NOT_ build the rich structure of the grabbed
44 // image. One has to call compute_rich_structure() explicitely for
46 virtual LabelledImage *grab_image(int n_image) = 0;
47 virtual void release_image(int n_image) = 0;