IndexManager
Class RegIndexManagerMtree

java.lang.Object
  IndexManager.RegIndexManager
      IndexManager.RegIndexManagerMtree

public class RegIndexManagerMtree
extends RegIndexManager

Class for the management of the region index using M-tree.

Constructor Summary

RegIndexManagerMtree(java.lang.String filename)
Basic constructor.

Method Summary

boolean	create(java.lang.String featureFile) Creates a new index from a file containing region features.
RegionQuery	createQuery(Region region) Creates a new k-NN query based on the given region using this index.
boolean	delete(ImageID id, Region region) Deletes a region from the index.
boolean	insert(ImageID id, Region region) Inserts a new region in the index.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

RegIndexManagerMtree

public RegIndexManagerMtree(java.lang.String filename)

Basic constructor.

Parameters:

filename - The absolute path of the file containing the M-tree index.

Method Detail

createQuery

public RegionQuery createQuery(Region region)

Creates a new k-NN query based on the given region using this index.

Specified by:

createQuery in class RegIndexManager

Parameters:

region - The query region.

Returns:

A new k-NN query.

create

public boolean create(java.lang.String featureFile)

Creates a new index from a file containing region features.

Specified by:

create in class RegIndexManager

Parameters:

featureFile - Absolute path of the features file.

Returns:

true if the index was successfully created, false otherwise.

insert

public boolean insert(ImageID id,
                      Region region)

Inserts a new region in the index.

Specified by:

insert in class RegIndexManager

Parameters:

id - ID of the region to be inserted.

region - Region to be inserted.

Returns:

true if the region was successfully inserted, false otherwise.

delete

public boolean delete(ImageID id,
                      Region region)

Deletes a region from the index.

Specified by:

delete in class RegIndexManager

Parameters:

id - ID of the region to be inserted.

region - Region to be inserted.

Returns:

true if the region was successfully deleted, false otherwise.