Re: alive?
David Squire <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.gift.general |
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| 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 CRICOS Provider No. 00008C http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davids/