boofcv.abst.feature.detdesc.DetectDescribePoint Maven / Gradle / Ivy

Go to download

Show more of this group Show more artifacts with this name
Show all versions of feature Show documentation

BoofCV is an open source Java library for real-time computer vision and robotics applications.

There is a newer version: 0.26

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2011-2013, Peter Abeles. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * This file is part of BoofCV (http://boofcv.org).
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package boofcv.abst.feature.detdesc;

import boofcv.abst.feature.describe.DescriptorInfo;
import boofcv.abst.feature.detect.interest.InterestPointDetector;
import boofcv.struct.feature.TupleDesc;
import boofcv.struct.image.ImageBase;

/**
 * Interface for detecting and describing point features. By detecting and describing at the same time some algorithms
 * can be significantly speed up by avoiding recomputing preprocessing steps twice.
 *
 * @author Peter Abeles
 */
public interface DetectDescribePoint
		extends InterestPointDetector, DescriptorInfo
{
	/**
	 * Returns the feature descriptor at the specified index.
	 * 
	 * WARNING: The returned data structure is recycled each time {@link #detect(boofcv.struct.image.ImageBase)}
	 * is called.  Create a copy if this is a problem.
	 * 
	 *
	 * @param index Which feature
	 * @return Feature descriptor
	 */
	public Desc getDescription(int index);
}