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30 package org.openimaj.ml.clustering;
31
32 import org.openimaj.experiment.evaluation.cluster.processor.Clusterer;
33
34 /**
35 * Clusterers can extract clusters from data types and return
36 * the data in a clustered form
37 *
38 * @author Sina Samangooei (ss@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
39 * @param <DATA> the data which can be clustered
40 * @param <CLUSTER>
41 */
42 public interface DataClusterer<DATA, CLUSTER extends IndexClusters> extends Clusterer<DATA>{
43 /**
44 * @param data the data to be clustered
45 * @return the clusters produced
46 */
47 public CLUSTER cluster(DATA data);
48 }