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/******************************************************************************
 ** Filename:    features.h
 ** Purpose:     Generic definition of a feature.
 ** Author:      Dan Johnson
 ** History:     Sun May 20 10:28:30 1990, DSJ, Created.
 **
 ** (c) Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company, 1988.
 ** Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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 ******************************************************************************/

#ifndef FEATURES_H
#define FEATURES_H

#include "blobs.h"

#include <cstdio>

class DENORM;
struct INT_FX_RESULT_STRUCT;

#undef Min
#undef Max
#define FEAT_NAME_SIZE 80

// A character is described by multiple sets of extracted features.  Each
// set contains a number of features of a particular type, for example, a
// set of bays, or a set of closures, or a set of microfeatures.  Each
// feature consists of a number of parameters.  All features within a
// feature set contain the same number of parameters.  All circular
// parameters are required to be the first parameters in the feature.

struct PARAM_DESC {
  int8_t Circular;      // TRUE if dimension wraps around
  int8_t NonEssential;  // TRUE if dimension not used in searches
  float Min;            // low end of range for circular dimensions
  float Max;            // high end of range for circular dimensions
  float Range;          // Max - Min
  float HalfRange;      // (Max - Min)/2
  float MidRange;       // (Max + Min)/2
};

struct FEATURE_DESC_STRUCT {
  uint16_t NumParams;           // total # of params
  const char* ShortName;        // short name for feature
  const PARAM_DESC* ParamDesc;  // array - one per param
};
using FEATURE_DESC = FEATURE_DESC_STRUCT*;

struct FEATURE_STRUCT {
  const FEATURE_DESC_STRUCT* Type;  // points to description of feature type
  float Params[1];                  // variable size array - params for feature
};
using FEATURE = FEATURE_STRUCT*;

struct FEATURE_SET_STRUCT {
  uint16_t NumFeatures;     // number of features in set
  uint16_t MaxNumFeatures;  // maximum size of feature set
  FEATURE Features[1];      // variable size array of features
};
using FEATURE_SET = FEATURE_SET_STRUCT*;

// A generic character description as a char pointer. In reality, it will be
// a pointer to some data structure. Paired feature extractors/matchers need
// to agree on the data structure to be used, however, the high level
// classifier does not need to know the details of this data structure.
using CHAR_FEATURES = char*;

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Macros for defining the parameters of a new features
----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#define StartParamDesc(Name) const PARAM_DESC Name[] = {
#define DefineParam(Circular, NonEssential, Min, Max) \
  {Circular,                                          \
   NonEssential,                                      \
   Min,                                               \
   Max,                                               \
   (Max) - (Min),                                     \
   (((Max) - (Min)) / 2.0),                           \
   (((Max) + (Min)) / 2.0)},

#define EndParamDesc };

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------
Macro for describing a new feature.  The parameters of the macro
are as follows:

DefineFeature (Name, NumLinear, NumCircular, ShortName, ParamName)
----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#define DefineFeature(Name, NL, NC, SN, PN) \
  const FEATURE_DESC_STRUCT Name = {((NL) + (NC)), SN, PN};

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------
        Generic routines that work for all feature types
----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
bool AddFeature(FEATURE_SET FeatureSet, FEATURE Feature);

void FreeFeature(FEATURE Feature);

void FreeFeatureSet(FEATURE_SET FeatureSet);

FEATURE NewFeature(const FEATURE_DESC_STRUCT* FeatureDesc);

FEATURE_SET NewFeatureSet(int NumFeatures);

FEATURE ReadFeature(FILE* File, const FEATURE_DESC_STRUCT* FeatureDesc);

FEATURE_SET ReadFeatureSet(FILE* File, const FEATURE_DESC_STRUCT* FeatureDesc);

void WriteFeature(FEATURE Feature, STRING* str);

void WriteFeatureSet(FEATURE_SET FeatureSet, STRING* str);

#endif