Re: alive?

David Squire <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.gift.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:55:35AM +0100, David Squire wrote:
>   
[snip]
>> There is a broader point too though. I would like to encourage the idea 
>> that the feature extraction part of the GIFT should be in some way 
>> pluggable. When adding a collection, the user should be able to specify 
>> which feature extraction system he/she wants to use, and there could be 
>> multiple ones shipped with the GIFT, or others could be available from 
>> third party sites.
>>     
>
> sounds great to me. porting my code to imagemagick as we speak.
>
> a pluggable system might be in order BEFORE we make a release, as my code 
> performs 2/9ths WORSE on a non-sse2 enabled machine.
>   
Agreed. I was thinking of this issue. BTW, is there an environment 
variable or other system resource that could be checked so that the 
right choice of default is made during installation?
>> I guess that this would mean that (at least) an attribute would have to 
>> be added to the collection element in the gift-config.mrml file so that 
>> the system could be aware of whether features are comensurate for 
>> different collections.
>>     
>
> personally, i'd love to see some documentation on the feature file format, 
> and a "clean reference implimentation". i've overhauled your code, and i 
> still cant make heads or tails out of some of it. comments would be nice. ;)
>   
Hey! There are lots of comments :) Of which parts in particular would 
you like a more detailed explanation?

>> I am fairly sure there was a discussion about this a few years ago, 
>> either on this list, or via email - I will have a look for it.
>>
>> This would make it easier for various GIFT users to share their 
>> specializations of the system (e.g. I have a version that uses 
>> annotations too, and I know that Henning has done stuff using a greater 
>> number of greys, more texture orientations, etc.)
>>
>>     
>
> i'd be interested in seeing some of this work as well, as my input images 
> are all greyscale.
>   
Check out publications etc. available via 
http://www.sim.hcuge.ch/medgift/. I've you've got greyscale images, you 
definitely don't want to be using the default GIFT features (unless 
texture is the only important thing for you).

Cheers,

David

-- 
Dr David McG. Squire,  Senior Lecturer, on sabbatical in 2006
Caulfield School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
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