// Copyright (C) 2013 Davis E. King (davis@dlib.net)
// License: Boost Software License See LICENSE.txt for the full license.
#undef DLIB_BINNED_VECTOR_FEATUrES_ABSTRACT_Hh_
#ifdef DLIB_BINNED_VECTOR_FEATUrES_ABSTRACT_Hh_
#include "../lsh/projection_hash_abstract.h"
#include <vector>
#include "../matrix.h"
namespace dlib
{
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
template <
typename feature_extractor,
typename hash_function_type_ = projection_hash
>
class binned_vector_feature_image : noncopyable
{
/*!
REQUIREMENTS ON feature_extractor
- must be an object with an interface compatible with dlib::hog_image
REQUIREMENTS ON hash_function_type_
- must be an object with an interface compatible with projection_hash
INITIAL VALUE
- size() == 0
WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS
This object is a tool for performing image feature extraction. In
particular, it wraps another image feature extractor and converts the
wrapped image feature vectors into a high dimensional sparse vector. For
example, if the lower level feature extractor outputs the vector [3,4,5]
and this vector is hashed into the second bin of four bins then the output
sparse vector is:
[0,0,0,0, 3,4,5,1, 0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0].
That is, the output vector has a dimensionality that is equal to the number
of hash bins times the dimensionality of the lower level vector plus one.
The value in the extra dimension concatenated onto the end of the vector is
always a constant value of of 1 and serves as a bias value. This means
that, if there are N hash bins, these vectors are capable of representing N
different linear functions, each operating on the vectors that fall into
their corresponding hash bin.
THREAD SAFETY
Concurrent access to an instance of this object is not safe and should be
protected by a mutex lock except for the case where you are copying the
configuration (via copy_configuration()) of a binned_vector_feature_image
object to many other threads. In this case, it is safe to copy the
configuration of a shared object so long as no other operations are
performed on it.
NOTATION
let BASE_FE denote the base feature_extractor object contained inside the
binned_vector_feature_image.
!*/
public:
typedef feature_extractor feature_extractor_type;
typedef hash_function_type_ hash_function_type;
typedef std::vector<std::pair<unsigned int,double> > descriptor_type;
binned_vector_feature_image (
);
/*!
ensures
- this object is properly initialized
!*/
void clear (
);
/*!
ensures
- this object will have its initial value
!*/
void set_hash (
const hash_function_type& hash
);
/*!
ensures
- #get_hash() == hash
!*/
const hash_function_type& get_hash (
) const;
/*!
ensures
- returns the hash function used by this object to hash
base feature vectors into integers.
!*/
void copy_configuration (
const feature_extractor& item
);
/*!
ensures
- performs BASE_FE.copy_configuration(item)
!*/
void copy_configuration (
const binned_vector_feature_image& item
);
/*!
ensures
- copies all the state information of item into *this, except for state
information populated by load(). More precisely, given two binned_vector_feature_image
objects H1 and H2, the following sequence of instructions should always
result in both of them having the exact same state.
H2.copy_configuration(H1);
H1.load(img);
H2.load(img);
!*/
template <
typename image_type
>
void load (
const image_type& img
);
/*!
requires
- image_type == any type that can be supplied to feature_extractor::load()
ensures
- performs BASE_FE.load(img)
i.e. does feature extraction. The features can be accessed using
operator() as defined below.
!*/
unsigned long size (
) const;
/*!
ensures
- returns BASE_FE.size()
!*/
long nr (
) const;
/*!
ensures
- returns BASE_FE.nr()
!*/
long nc (
) const;
/*!
ensures
- returns BASE_FE.nc()
!*/
long get_num_dimensions (
) const;
/*!
ensures
- returns the dimensionality of the feature vectors returned by operator().
In this case, this is the number of hash bins times the dimensionality of
the features produced by BASE_FE plus one. That is, this function
returns get_hash().num_hash_bins()*(BASE_FE.get_num_dimensions()+1)
!*/
const descriptor_type& operator() (
long row,
long col
) const;
/*!
requires
- 0 <= row < nr()
- 0 <= col < nc()
- It must be legal to evaluate expressions of the form: get_hash()(BASE_FE(row,col))
(e.g. the hash function must be properly configured to process the feature
vectors produced by the base feature extractor)
ensures
- hashes BASE_FE(row,col) and returns the resulting sparse vector. In
particular, we return a vector that is a copy of BASE_FE(row,col) that
has been shifted into the part of the sparse vector indicated by the hash
function. It will also have a constant bias value of 1 appended to it.
- To be precise, this function returns a sparse vector V such that:
- V.size() == BASE_FE.get_num_dimensions()+1
- let IDX = get_hash()(BASE_FE(row,col))
- for i where 0 <= i < BASE_FE.get_num_dimensions():
- V[i].first == IDX*(BASE_FE.get_num_dimensions()+1) + i
- V[i].second == BASE_FE(row,col)(i)
- V[BASE_FE.get_num_dimensions()].first == IDX*(BASE_FE.get_num_dimensions()+1) + BASE_FE.get_num_dimensions()
- V[BASE_FE.get_num_dimensions()].second == 1
!*/
const rectangle get_block_rect (
long row,
long col
) const;
/*!
ensures
- returns BASE_FE.get_block_rect(row,col)
I.e. returns a rectangle that tells you what part of the original image is associated
with a particular feature vector.
!*/
const point image_to_feat_space (
const point& p
) const;
/*!
ensures
- returns BASE_FE.image_to_feat_space(p)
I.e. Each local feature is extracted from a certain point in the input image.
This function returns the identity of the local feature corresponding
to the image location p. Or in other words, let P == image_to_feat_space(p),
then (*this)(P.y(),P.x()) == the local feature closest to, or centered at,
the point p in the input image. Note that some image points might not have
corresponding feature locations. E.g. border points or points outside the
image. In these cases the returned point will be outside get_rect(*this).
!*/
const rectangle image_to_feat_space (
const rectangle& rect
) const;
/*!
ensures
- returns BASE_FE.image_to_feat_space(rect)
I.e. returns rectangle(image_to_feat_space(rect.tl_corner()), image_to_feat_space(rect.br_corner()));
(i.e. maps a rectangle from image space to feature space)
!*/
const point feat_to_image_space (
const point& p
) const;
/*!
ensures
- returns BASE_FE.feat_to_image_space(p)
I.e. returns the location in the input image space corresponding to the center
of the local feature at point p. In other words, this function computes
the inverse of image_to_feat_space(). Note that it may only do so approximately,
since more than one image location might correspond to the same local feature.
That is, image_to_feat_space() might not be invertible so this function gives
the closest possible result.
!*/
const rectangle feat_to_image_space (
const rectangle& rect
) const;
/*!
ensures
- returns BASE_FE.feat_to_image_space(rect)
I.e. return rectangle(feat_to_image_space(rect.tl_corner()), feat_to_image_space(rect.br_corner()));
(i.e. maps a rectangle from feature space to image space)
!*/
};
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
template <
typename T,
typename U
>
void serialize (
const binned_vector_feature_image<T,U>& item,
std::ostream& out
);
/*!
provides serialization support
!*/
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
template <
typename T,
typename U
>
void deserialize (
binned_vector_feature_image<T,U>& item,
std::istream& in
);
/*!
provides deserialization support
!*/
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
}
#endif // DLIB_BINNED_VECTOR_FEATUrES_ABSTRACT_Hh_