comirva.audio.extraction
Class AttributeExtractor

java.lang.Object
  comirva.audio.extraction.AttributeExtractor

Direct Known Subclasses:

AudioFeatureExtractor

public abstract class AttributeExtractor
extends java.lang.Object

Title: Attribute Extractor

Description:

This interface defines a very general attribute extractor. It separates the process of extracting an attribute from the representation of an attribute as an object.

See Also:

Attribute

Constructor Summary

AttributeExtractor()

Method Summary

abstract Attribute	calculate(java.lang.Object input) This method encapsulates the attribute extraction process.
abstract AttributeExtractor	copy() This method returns a copy of an AttributeExtractor.
abstract int	getAttributeType() Returns the type of the attribute that the class implementing this interface will return as the result of its extraction process.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AttributeExtractor

public AttributeExtractor()

Method Detail

copy

public abstract AttributeExtractor copy()

This method returns a copy of an AttributeExtractor. This is useful to use multiple extractors in parallel or distributed environments as AttributeExtractors can be stateful.

Returns:

calculate

public abstract Attribute calculate(java.lang.Object input)
                             throws java.io.IOException,
                                    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

This method encapsulates the attribute extraction process. The input parameter is open, because of the very general design of AttributeExtractor and Attribute. A concrete class implementing this interface will however expect the input to be of a certain type and will raise a IllegalArgumentException, if the passed argument is not of the expected type.

Parameters:

input - Object an object representing the input data to extract the feature out of

Returns:

Feature a feature extracted from the input data

Throws:

java.io.IOException - failures due to io operations are signaled by IOExceptions

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - raised if method contract is violated, especially if the open input type is not of the expected type

getAttributeType

public abstract int getAttributeType()

Returns the type of the attribute that the class implementing this interface will return as the result of its extraction process. By definition this is the hash code of the attribute's class name.

Returns:

int an integer uniquely identifying the returned Attribute