    // Copyright (C) 2012  Davis E. King (davis@dlib.net)
    // License: Boost Software License   See LICENSE.txt for the full license.
    #undef DLIB_LOAD_IMAGE_DaTASET_ABSTRACT_Hh_
    #ifdef DLIB_LOAD_IMAGE_DaTASET_ABSTRACT_Hh_

    #include "image_dataset_metadata.h"
    #include "../array/array_kernel_abstract.h"
    #include <string>
    #include <vector>
    #include "../image_processing/full_object_detection_abstract.h"

    namespace dlib
    {

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

        class image_dataset_file
        {
            /*!
                WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS
                    This object is a tool used to tell the load_image_dataset() functions which
                    boxes and images to load from an XML based image dataset file.  By default,
                    this object tells load_image_dataset() to load all images and object boxes.
            !*/

        public:
            image_dataset_file(
                const std::string& filename
            );
            /*!
                ensures
                    - #get_filename() == filename
                    - #should_skip_empty_images() == false
                    - #get_selected_box_labels().size() == 0
                      This means that, initially, all boxes will be loaded.  Therefore, for all
                      possible boxes B we have:
                        - #should_load_box(B) == true
            !*/

            const std::string& get_filename(
            ) const;
            /*!
                ensures
                    - returns the name of the XML image dataset metadata file given to this
                      object's constructor.
            !*/

            bool should_skip_empty_images(
            ) const;
            /*!
                ensures
                    - returns true if we are supposed to skip images that don't have any boxes
                      to load when loading an image dataset using load_image_dataset().
            !*/

            image_dataset_file boxes_match_label(
                const std::string& label
            ) const;
            /*!
                ensures
                    - returns a copy of *this that is identical in all respects to *this except
                      that label will be included in the labels set (i.e. the set returned by
                      get_selected_box_labels()).
            !*/

            const std::set<std::string>& get_selected_box_labels(
            ) const;
            /*!
                ensures
                    - returns the set of box labels currently selected by the should_load_box()
                      method.  Note that if the set is empty then we select all boxes.
            !*/

            image_dataset_file skip_empty_images(
            ) const;
            /*!
                ensures
                    - returns a copy of *this that is identical in all respects to *this except
                      that #should_skip_empty_images() == true.
            !*/

            bool should_boxes_have_parts(
            ) const;
            /*!
                ensures
                    - returns true if boxes must have some parts defined for them to be loaded.
            !*/

            image_dataset_file boxes_have_parts(
            ) const;
            /*!
                ensures
                    - returns a copy of *this that is identical in all respects to *this except
                      that #should_boxes_have_parts() == true.
            !*/

            bool should_load_box (
                const image_dataset_metadata::box& box
            ) const;
            /*!
                ensures
                    - returns true if we are supposed to load the given box from an image
                      dataset XML file.  In particular, if should_load_box() returns false then
                      the load_image_dataset() routines will not return the box at all, neither
                      in the ignore rectangles list or in the primary object_locations vector.
                      The behavior of this function is defined as follows:
                        - if (should_boxes_have_parts() && boxes.parts.size() == 0) then
                            - returns false
                        - else if (get_selected_box_labels().size() == 0) then
                            - returns true
                        - else if (get_selected_box_labels().count(box.label) != 0) then
                            - returns true
                        - else
                            - returns false
            !*/

        };

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

        template <
            typename image_type,
            typename MM
            >
        std::vector<std::vector<rectangle> > load_image_dataset (
            array<image_type,MM>& images,
            std::vector<std::vector<rectangle> >& object_locations,
            const image_dataset_file& source
        );
        /*!
            requires
                - image_type == is an implementation of array2d/array2d_kernel_abstract.h
                - pixel_traits<typename image_type::type> is defined
            ensures
                - This routine loads the images and their associated object boxes from the
                  image metadata file indicated by source.get_filename().  This metadata file
                  should be in the XML format used by the save_image_dataset_metadata() routine.
                - #images.size() == The number of images loaded from the metadata file.  This
                  is all the images listed in the file unless source.should_skip_empty_images()
                  is set to true.
                - #images.size() == #object_locations.size()
                - This routine is capable of loading any image format which can be read by the
                  load_image() routine.
                - let IGNORED_RECTS denote the vector returned from this function.
                - IGNORED_RECTS.size() == #object_locations.size()
                - IGNORED_RECTS == a list of the rectangles which have the "ignore" flag set to
                  true in the input XML file.
                - for all valid i:
                    - #images[i] == a copy of the i-th image from the dataset.
                    - #object_locations[i] == a vector of all the rectangles associated with
                      #images[i].  These are the rectangles for which source.should_load_box()
                      returns true and are also not marked as "ignore" in the XML file.
                    - IGNORED_RECTS[i] == A vector of all the rectangles associated with #images[i]
                      that are marked as "ignore" but not discarded by source.should_load_box().
                    - if (source.should_skip_empty_images() == true) then
                        - #object_locations[i].size() != 0
                          (i.e. we won't load images that don't end up having any object locations)
        !*/

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

        template <
            typename image_type,
            typename MM
            >
        std::vector<std::vector<rectangle> > load_image_dataset (
            array<image_type,MM>& images,
            std::vector<std::vector<rectangle> >& object_locations,
            const std::string& filename
        );
        /*!
            requires
                - image_type == is an implementation of array2d/array2d_kernel_abstract.h
                - pixel_traits<typename image_type::type> is defined
            ensures
                - performs: return load_image_dataset(images, object_locations, image_dataset_file(filename));
                  (i.e. it ignores box labels and therefore loads all the boxes in the dataset)
        !*/

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

        template <
            typename image_type,
            typename MM
            >
        std::vector<std::vector<rectangle> > load_image_dataset (
            array<image_type,MM>& images,
            std::vector<std::vector<full_object_detection> >& object_locations,
            const image_dataset_file& source,
            std::vector<std::string>& parts_list
        );
        /*!
            requires
                - image_type == is an implementation of array2d/array2d_kernel_abstract.h
                - pixel_traits<typename image_type::type> is defined
            ensures
                - This routine loads the images and their associated object locations from the
                  image metadata file indicated by source.get_filename().  This metadata file
                  should be in the XML format used by the save_image_dataset_metadata() routine.
                - The difference between this function and the version of load_image_dataset()
                  defined above is that this version will also load object part information and
                  thus fully populates the full_object_detection objects.
                - #images.size() == The number of images loaded from the metadata file.  This
                  is all the images listed in the file unless source.should_skip_empty_images()
                  is set to true.
                - #images.size() == #object_locations.size()
                - This routine is capable of loading any image format which can be read
                  by the load_image() routine.
                - #parts_list == a vector that contains the list of object parts found in the
                  input file and loaded into object_locations.
                - #parts_list is in lexicographic sorted order.
                - let IGNORED_RECTS denote the vector returned from this function.
                - IGNORED_RECTS.size() == #object_locations.size()
                - IGNORED_RECTS == a list of the rectangles which have the "ignore" flag set to
                  true in the input XML file.
                - for all valid i:
                    - #images[i] == a copy of the i-th image from the dataset.
                    - #object_locations[i] == a vector of all the rectangles associated with
                      #images[i].  These are the rectangles for which source.should_load_box()
                      returns true and are also not marked as "ignore" in the XML file.
                    - IGNORED_RECTS[i] == A vector of all the rectangles associated with #images[i]
                      that are marked as "ignore" but not discarded by source.should_load_box().
                    - if (source.should_skip_empty_images() == true) then
                        - #object_locations[i].size() != 0
                          (i.e. we won't load images that don't end up having any object locations)
                    - for all valid j:
                        - #object_locations[i][j].num_parts() == #parts_list.size()
                        - for all valid k:
                            - #object_locations[i][j].part(k) == the location of the part
                              with name #parts_list[k] or OBJECT_PART_NOT_PRESENT if the
                              part was not indicated for object #object_locations[i][j].
        !*/

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

        template <
            typename image_type,
            typename MM
            >
        std::vector<std::vector<rectangle> > load_image_dataset (
            array<image_type,MM>& images,
            std::vector<std::vector<full_object_detection> >& object_locations,
            const image_dataset_file& source
        );
        /*!
            requires
                - image_type == is an implementation of array2d/array2d_kernel_abstract.h
                - pixel_traits<typename image_type::type> is defined
            ensures
                - performs: return load_image_dataset(images, object_locations, source, parts_list);
                  (i.e. this function simply calls the above function and discards the output
                  parts_list.  So it is just a convenience function you can call if you don't
                  care about getting the parts list.)
        !*/

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

        template <
            typename image_type,
            typename MM
            >
        std::vector<std::vector<rectangle> > load_image_dataset (
            array<image_type,MM>& images,
            std::vector<std::vector<full_object_detection> >& object_locations,
            const std::string& filename
        );
        /*!
            requires
                - image_type == is an implementation of array2d/array2d_kernel_abstract.h
                - pixel_traits<typename image_type::type> is defined
            ensures
                - performs: return load_image_dataset(images, object_locations, image_dataset_file(filename));
                  (i.e. it ignores box labels and therefore loads all the boxes in the dataset)
        !*/

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    }

    #endif // DLIB_LOAD_IMAGE_DaTASET_ABSTRACT_Hh_