org.openimaj.experiment.validation

Interface ValidationOperation<DATASET extends org.openimaj.data.dataset.Dataset<?>,ANALYSIS_RESULT>

Type Parameters:

DATASET - The type of dataset

ANALYSIS_RESULT - The type of the resulting data from the operation.

public interface ValidationOperation<DATASET extends org.openimaj.data.dataset.Dataset<?>,ANALYSIS_RESULT>

Interface describing the contract for classes which can perform a the operations required for a single round of validation.

The common use-case of this class is for it to be used as part of the validation of some system as coordinated by a ValidationRunner. As the ValidationRunner can perform multiple validations at once using multi-threading, implementors of this interface should be thread-safe.

Author:

Jonathon Hare (jsh2@ecs.soton.ac.uk)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ANALYSIS_RESULT	evaluate(DATASET training, DATASET validation) Perform the operations required for one round of validation using the provided training and validation datasets.

Method Detail

evaluate

ANALYSIS_RESULT evaluate(DATASET training,
                         DATASET validation)

Perform the operations required for one round of validation using the provided training and validation datasets. The result of the evaluation round is returned.

Parameters:

training - the training data

validation - the validation data

Returns:

the result of the validation round