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* We kindly ask you to refer the any or one of the following publications in
* any publication mentioning or employing Lire:
*
* Lux Mathias, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis. Lire: Lucene Image Retrieval -
* An Extensible Java CBIR Library. In proceedings of the 16th ACM International
* Conference on Multimedia, pp. 1085-1088, Vancouver, Canada, 2008
* URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1459359.1459577
*
* Lux Mathias. Content Based Image Retrieval with LIRE. In proceedings of the
* 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 735-738, Scottsdale,
* Arizona, USA, 2011
* URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2072432
*
* Mathias Lux, Oge Marques. Visual Information Retrieval using Java and LIRE
* Morgan & Claypool, 2013
* URL: http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00468ED1V01Y201301ICR025
*/
package net.semanticmetadata.lire.imageanalysis.features;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
/**
* This is the basic interface for all global and local extractors.
* Created by Nektarios on 27/3/2015.
*
* @author Nektarios Anagnostopoulos, nek.anag@gmail.com
* (c) 2015 by Nektarios Anagnostopoulos
*/
public interface Extractor {
/**
* Extracts the feature vector from a BufferedImage.
* @param image the source image
*/
public void extract(BufferedImage image);
}