Re-identification script: clean up seek files?

[gsaponaro]

Hi, I successfully ran the sample re-identification algorithm plus the evaluation code, then I closed MATLAB, and I noticed that my hda_image_sequences_matlab directory now contains a bunch of camera##-seek.mat files that previously weren't there.

I don't know details about this evaluation process, but I would expect that those "cache" files would pollute any future/different evaluations that I might want to do with the dataset.

Is there any strong reason in favour of keeping those seek files after the evaluation is finished?

If not, I suggest to automatically delete them upon completion.

[WurmD]

The seek.mat files do not interfere with the evaluation or anything else,
they simply speed up the access to the video images

Do you still feel they should be deleted?

Dario

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Giovanni Saponaro <[email protected]

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[gsaponaro]

Fair enough! If the seek files indeed give a speed advantage (and no disadvantages), by all means keep them.

Suggestion for the future: (if these files are not computer-specific) distribute them with the database.