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#ifndef __ARM_COMPUTE_IHOG_H__
#define __ARM_COMPUTE_IHOG_H__

#include "arm_compute/core/Types.h"

#include <cstddef>

namespace arm_compute
{
class HOGInfo;
/** Interface for HOG data-object */
class IHOG
{
public:
    /** Interface to be implemented by the child class to return the HOG's metadata
     *
     * @return A pointer to the HOG's metadata.
     */
    virtual const HOGInfo *info() const = 0;
    /** Default virtual destructor */
    virtual ~IHOG() = default;
    /** Pointer to the first element of the array which stores the linear SVM coefficients of HOG descriptor
     *
     * @note Other elements of the array can be accessed using descriptor()[idx] for idx=[0, descriptor_size() - 1]
     *
     * @return A pointer to the first element of the array which stores the linear SVM coefficients of HOG descriptor
     */
    virtual float *descriptor() const = 0;
};
}
#endif /* __ARM_COMPUTE_IHOG_H__ */