HueChannel.H

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00001 /*!@file Channels/HueChannel.H */
00002 
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00034 // $HeadURL: svn://isvn.usc.edu/software/invt/trunk/saliency/src/Channels/HueChannel.H $
00035 // $Id: HueChannel.H 7434 2006-11-11 02:15:19Z rjpeters $
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00037 
00038 #ifndef HUECHANNEL_H_DEFINED
00039 #define HUECHANNEL_H_DEFINED
00040 
00041 #include "Channels/SingleChannel.H"
00042 
00043 // ######################################################################
00044 //! A hue similarity channel
00045 /*! Hue is represented as a bivariate Gaussian distibution in
00046   the C.I.E. color space, which is R/I vs. G/I.*/
00047 class HueChannel : public SingleChannel
00048 {
00049 public:
00050 
00051   //! Constructor with parameters of the bivariate Gaussian
00052   /*!@param mgr the ModelManager to assign this channel to
00053     @param muR the mean of the distribution in the R/I coordinate
00054     @param muG the mean in the G/I coordinate of the C.I.E. color space
00055     @param sigR the std in R/I
00056     @param sigG the std in G/I
00057     @param rho the correlation between R/I and G/I */
00058   HueChannel(OptionManager& mgr,
00059              float muR, float muG,
00060              float sigR, float sigG, float rho);
00061 
00062   //! Constuctor with sample pixel and std
00063   /*! Simplified version of the constructor that derives
00064     muR and muG from the pixel value hue, and it assumes
00065     that sigR=sigG=sig, and rho = 0.*/
00066   HueChannel(OptionManager& mgr,
00067              const PixRGB<byte> hue,
00068              float sig = 0.04);
00069 
00070   //! virtual destructor for inheritance
00071   virtual ~HueChannel();
00072 
00073   //! Combine all feature maps into a single output map
00074   /*! This overrides SingleChannel::combineSubMaps.
00075     Instead of doing center-surround and combining across scales,
00076     we just return the hue-filtered image at the map
00077     resolution.*/
00078   Image<float> combineSubMaps();
00079 
00080   //! always returns 1
00081   virtual uint numSubmaps() const;
00082 
00083   //! This is just a caching wrapper around computeSubmap()
00084   virtual Image<float> getSubmap(const uint index) const;
00085 
00086   //! Always returns "Hue"
00087   virtual std::string getSubmapName(const uint index) const;
00088 
00089 
00090  protected:
00091   //! special input function to compute the hue distance map
00092   virtual void doInput(const InputFrame& inframe);
00093 
00094   float itsMuR, itsMuG, itsSigR, itsSigG, itsRho;
00095 };
00096 
00097 // ######################################################################
00098 /* So things look consistent in everyone's emacs... */
00099 /* Local Variables: */
00100 /* indent-tabs-mode: nil */
00101 /* End: */
00102 
00103 #endif // HUECHANNEL_H_DEFINED
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