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030package org.openimaj.tools.globalfeature;
031
032import org.openimaj.feature.FeatureVector;
033import org.openimaj.image.FImage;
034import org.openimaj.image.MBFImage;
035
036/**
037 * Global feature extractors can enact based on an image and a mask
038 * 
039 * @author Sina Samangooei (ss@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
040 * @author Jonathon Hare (jsh2@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
041 */
042public abstract class GlobalFeatureExtractor {
043
044        /**
045         * Create the feature from the image and optional mask.
046         * 
047         * @param image the image
048         * @param mask the mask (be be null)
049         * @return the feature based on an image and mask
050         */
051        public abstract FeatureVector extract(MBFImage image, FImage mask);
052        
053        /**
054         * Create the feature from the image.
055         * 
056         * @param image the image
057         * @return the feature based on an image
058         */
059        public FeatureVector extract(MBFImage image) {
060                return extract(image, null);
061        }
062}