HOME | Research | Media | Careers | Contacts | Products | Search | Publications | Site Map

CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics

Image Analysis Biotech Imaging Group Application Areas  Biotechnology  Cellular Screening  Health  Asset Monitoring  Exploration  Other Areas Skills  Segmentation  Feature Extraction  Statistical Analysis  Stereo Vision  Image Motion   Projects Imaging Services Imaging Products Track Record Publications Patents Staff

Handling variants Functions are usually written with a specific data type in mind. However, image data comes in a variety of types, such as char, int, float etc. Therefore, functions should be written to cope with different types. In the LIAR, functions cope with different data types by either: 1) being passed the data type in the argument list; or 2) there exists different versions of the same function specifically written to handle each data type expected. The latter approach is often the simplist. Figure 10 provides an example of how different versions of the same function can be declared. Note, these two functions are just copies of each other, with the appropriate data type changed. Also note, that the name of the function reflects the data type expected by the function.

© Copyright 2013, CSIRO Australia
Use of this web site and information available from
it is subject to our Legal Notice and Disclaimer and Privacy Statement