Pull out the PostFilter to its own NonlinearBeamformer API

webrtc/modules/audio_processing/beamformer/beamformer.h

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  public:
   virtual ~Beamformer() {}
 
   // Process one time-domain chunk of audio. The audio is expected to be split
   // into frequency bands inside the ChannelBuffer. The number of frames and
   // channels must correspond to the constructor parameters. The same
   // ChannelBuffer can be passed in as |input| and |output|.
   virtual void ProcessChunk(const ChannelBuffer<T>& input,
                             ChannelBuffer<T>* output) = 0;
 
+  // Applies the postfilter mask to one chunk of audio. The audio is expected to
+  // be split into frequency bands inside the ChannelBuffer. The number of
+  // frames must correspond to the constructor parameters and the number of
+  // channels is expected to be 1, since that is the output number of channels
+  // of ProcessChunk().
+  virtual void PostFilter(ChannelBuffer<float>* data) {};

[peah-webrtc, 2016/05/26 08:48:53]

I'm not that familiar with interfaces, but why can't you make this method pure
virtual similar to the other interface methods?

[aluebs-webrtc, 2016/05/28 03:00:00]

Addressed in the other comment.

+
   // Sample rate corresponds to the lower band.
   // Needs to be called before the the Beamformer can be used.
   virtual void Initialize(int chunk_size_ms, int sample_rate_hz) = 0;
 
   // Aim the beamformer at a point in space.
   virtual void AimAt(const SphericalPointf& spherical_point) = 0;
 
   // Indicates whether a given point is inside of the beam.
   virtual bool IsInBeam(const SphericalPointf& spherical_point) { return true; }
 
   // Returns true if the current data contains the target signal.
   // Which signals are considered "targets" is implementation dependent.
   virtual bool is_target_present() = 0;
 };
 
 }  // namespace webrtc
 
 #endif  // WEBRTC_MODULES_AUDIO_PROCESSING_BEAMFORMER_BEAMFORMER_H_