Utilities module

This module contains general utility functions that are used all over the toolkit.

Module functions

Files

• readfile - Parse a file to a cell array
• readstruct - Read a key-value file to a structure
• writestruct - Store a structure to file
• file_newer_than - Test if the first file is newer than the second file
• generate_from_template - Generate a new file from a template file
• delpath - Deletes the file or directory recursively
• mkpath - Creates a directory path
• relativepath - Returns the relative path from an root path to the target path

Figures

• plotc - Plot closed polygon
• sfigure - Silently creates a figure window
• export_figure - Export a figure to various formats

General

• is_octave - Test if in GNU/Octave or Matlab
• iterate - Iterates over experiment, tracker and sequence triplets
• iff - A simulation of inline conditional statement
• struct_merge - Merges a from structure to another in a recursive manner
• format_interval - Format a time interval
• patch_operation - Performs a point-wise operation with two unequal matrices
• initialize_native - Initialize all native components
• compile_mex - Compile given source files to a MEX function

Strings

• md5hash - Calculate 128 bit MD5 checksum
• strjoin - Joins multiple strings
• strxcmp - Advanced substring comparison

Mathematics and statistics

• gmm_estimate - Estimates a GMM on a set of points
• gmm_evaluate - Evaluates the GMM for a set of points
• apcluster - Computers clusters on data using affinity propagation