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#pragma once

#include <ICLCV/ImageRegion.h>

#include <ICLMarkers/FiducialDetectorPlugin.h>
#include <ICLMarkers/RegionStructure.h>

namespace icl{
  namespace markers{
    
  
    /// Extra abstraction layer that defines a basic skeleton for the detection of hierarchical fiducials \ingroup PLUGINS
    class FiducialDetectorPluginHierarchical : public FiducialDetectorPlugin{
      /// internal data class
      struct Data;
      
      /// internal hidden data pointer
      Data *data;
      
      protected:
      
      /// Constructor
      FiducialDetectorPluginHierarchical();
      public:
      
      /// destructor
      ~FiducialDetectorPluginHierarchical();
      
      /// defines which features are supported
      virtual void getFeatures(Fiducial::FeatureSet &dst)=0;
      
      /// defines how to detect markers from a given image
      /** In this case, regions are detected using the internal region detector.
          The regions are then passed to the other detect method */
      virtual void detect(std::vector<FiducialImpl*> &dst, const core::Img8u &image);
  
      /// defines how to find makers in the given vector of regions
      virtual void detect(std::vector<FiducialImpl*> &dst, const std::vector<cv::ImageRegion> &regions) = 0;
      
      /// defines how to load/remove marker definitions
      virtual void addOrRemoveMarkers(bool add, const utils::Any &which, const utils::ParamList &params)=0;
    };
    
  } // namespace markers
}