On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:55:35AM +0100, David Squire wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Julia, > > > >That's great. You're motivated, you're pushy :-) . Given that the output > >is equal to the previous output, I guess the main part of your sources > >should be in GIFT quite soon. Without having looked more at your source > >than before, I can tell you the questions I see: > > > >1) I did not quite understand the thingy about the "aggregator"? > >2) Are you able to write "feature information files"? > >3) Given that Image Magick is already a prerequisite for successful GIFT > >installation, the current state of your code introduces a new dependency, > >right? Probably everyone has it anyway, but I still think it would be best > >to move to the use of ImageMagick as file reading library. If you've got > >the time, it would be worthwile adding that, and it would be very much in > >your own interest, as you would save the convert call that has to be > >issued for each image. > > > >David, Julia: sounds reasonable? > > > > Yes, that does sound reasonable to me. > > 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. > > 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. ;) > 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. > Regards, > > David > to you, Julia Longtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ help-GIFT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gift
