marf.Classification.Distance
Class Distance

java.lang.Object
  marf.Storage.StorageManager
      marf.Classification.Classification
          marf.Classification.Distance.Distance

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, IClassification, IStorageManager, java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

ChebyshevDistance, DiffDistance, EuclideanDistance, MahalanobisDistance, MinkowskiDistance

public abstract class Distance

extends Classification

Abstract Distance Classifier.

$Id: Distance.java,v 1.30 2005/12/24 19:47:37 mokhov Exp $

Since:

0.0.1

Version:

$Revision: 1.30 $

Author:

Serguei Mokhov

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class marf.Classification.Classification

oFeatureExtraction, oResultSet, oTrainingSet

Fields inherited from class marf.Storage.StorageManager

bDumpOnNotFound, iCurrentDumpMode, oObjectToSerialize, strFilename

Fields inherited from interface marf.Classification.IClassification

MARF_INTERFACE_CODE_REVISION

Fields inherited from interface marf.Storage.IStorageManager

DUMP_BINARY, DUMP_CSV_TEXT, DUMP_GZIP_BINARY, DUMP_HTML, DUMP_SQL, DUMP_XML, MARF_INTERFACE_CODE_REVISION, STORAGE_FILE_EXTENSIONS

Constructor Summary

Distance(IFeatureExtraction poFeatureExtraction)
Distance Constructor.

Method Summary

boolean	classify() Classify the feature vector based on whatever distance() derivatives implement.
abstract double	distance(double[] paVector1, double[] paVector2) Generic distance routine.
static java.lang.String	getMARFSourceCodeRevision() Retrieves class' revision.
Result	getResult() Retrieves the minimum-distance classification result.

Methods inherited from class marf.Classification.Classification

clone, dump, getFeatureExtraction, getResultSet, getTrainingSetFilename, restore, setFeatureExtraction, train

Methods inherited from class marf.Storage.StorageManager

backSynchronizeObject, dumpBinary, dumpCSV, dumpGzipBinary, dumpHTML, dumpSQL, dumpXML, enableDumpOnNotFound, equals, getDefaultExtension, getDefaultExtension, getDumpMode, getFilename, hashCode, restoreBinary, restoreCSV, restoreGzipBinary, restoreHTML, restoreSQL, restoreXML, setDumpMode, setFilename, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Distance

public Distance(IFeatureExtraction poFeatureExtraction)

Distance Constructor.

Parameters:

poFeatureExtraction - FeatureExtraction module reference

Method Detail

classify

public final boolean classify()
                       throws ClassificationException

Classify the feature vector based on whatever distance() derivatives implement.

Returns:

true if classification successful whatever that means

Throws:

ClassificationException - if sanity checks fail. The checks include verifying nullness of the mean vector and its length compared to the feature vector or encapsulation of StorageException when dumping/restoring.

See Also:

distance(double[], double[])

distance

public abstract double distance(double[] paVector1,
                                double[] paVector2)

Generic distance routine. To be overridden.

Parameters:

paVector1 - first vector for distance calculation

paVector2 - second vector for distance calculation

Returns:

distance between the two vectors

getResult

public Result getResult()

Retrieves the minimum-distance classification result.

Returns:

Result object

Since:

0.3.0

getMARFSourceCodeRevision

public static java.lang.String getMARFSourceCodeRevision()

Retrieves class' revision.

Returns:

revision string

Since:

0.3.0.2