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 * Copyright (c) 2011-2016, Peter Abeles. All Rights Reserved.
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package boofcv.abst.scene;

import boofcv.struct.image.ImageBase;
import boofcv.struct.image.ImageType;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Base class for algorithms which process an image and load a model to do so
 *
 * @author Peter Abeles
 */
public interface ImageModelBase<T extends ImageBase<T>> {
	/**
	 * Loads the model at the specified location.  See documentation of the classifier for what needs to be
	 * passed in here.
	 *
	 * @param path Path to directory or file containing the model
	 */
	void loadModel( File path ) throws IOException;

	/**
	 * Returns the type of input image
	 * @return input image type
	 */
	ImageType<T> getInputType();
}