Package elki.distance

Interface SpatialPrimitiveDistance<V extends SpatialComparable>

Type Parameters:

V - Vector type

All Superinterfaces:

Distance<V>, PrimitiveDistance<V>

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArcCosineDistance, ArcCosineUnitlengthDistance, BrayCurtisDistance, CanberraDistance, ChiDistance, ChiSquaredDistance, ClarkDistance, CosineDistance, CosineUnitlengthDistance, DimensionSelectingLatLngDistance, EuclideanDistance, FisherRaoDistance, HellingerDistance, HistogramIntersectionDistance, HistogramMatchDistance, JeffreyDivergenceDistance, JensenShannonDivergenceDistance, Kulczynski1Similarity, LatLngDistance, LngLatDistance, LPIntegerNormDistance, LPNormDistance, ManhattanDistance, MaximumDistance, MinimumDistance, OnedimensionalDistance, SqrtCosineDistance, SqrtCosineUnitlengthDistance, SqrtJensenShannonDivergenceDistance, SquaredEuclideanDistance, SubspaceEuclideanDistance, SubspaceLPNormDistance, SubspaceManhattanDistance, SubspaceMaximumDistance, TriangularDiscriminationDistance, TriangularDistance, WeightedCanberraDistance, WeightedEuclideanDistance, WeightedLPNormDistance, WeightedManhattanDistance, WeightedMaximumDistance, WeightedSquaredEuclideanDistance

public interface SpatialPrimitiveDistance<V extends SpatialComparable>
extends PrimitiveDistance<V>

API for a spatial primitive distance function.

Since:

0.4.0

Author:

Erich Schubert

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
default <T extends V> SpatialPrimitiveDistanceQuery<T>	instantiate(Relation<T> relation)	Instantiate with a database to get the actual distance query.
double	minDist(SpatialComparable mbr1, SpatialComparable mbr2)	Computes the distance between the two given MBRs according to this distance function.

Methods inherited from interface elki.distance.Distance

isMetric, isSquared, isSymmetric

Methods inherited from interface elki.distance.PrimitiveDistance

distance, getInputTypeRestriction

Method Detail

minDist

double minDist(SpatialComparable mbr1,
               SpatialComparable mbr2)

Computes the distance between the two given MBRs according to this distance function.

Parameters:

mbr1 - the first MBR object

mbr2 - the second MBR object

Returns:

the distance between the two given MBRs according to this distance function

instantiate

default <T extends V> SpatialPrimitiveDistanceQuery<T> instantiate(Relation<T> relation)

Description copied from interface: Distance

Instantiate with a database to get the actual distance query.

Specified by:

instantiate in interface Distance<V extends SpatialComparable>

Specified by:

instantiate in interface PrimitiveDistance<V extends SpatialComparable>

Parameters:

relation - The representation to use

Returns:

Actual distance query.