what the meaning of slim.metrics.streaming_sparse_average_precision_at_k? - tensorflow

Question

This function refer to tf.contrib.metrics.streaming_sparse_average_precision_at_k,and the explanation in source code is follow,any one can explain it by giving some simply example? And I wonder whether this metric is same as the average precision calculation used in PASCAL VOC 2012 challenge.Thanks a lot.
def sparse_average_precision_at_k(labels,
predictions,
k,
weights=None,
metrics_collections=None,
updates_collections=None,
name=None):
"""Computes average precision#k of predictions with respect to sparse labels.
`sparse_average_precision_at_k` creates two local variables,
`average_precision_at_<k>/total` and `average_precision_at_<k>/max`, that
are used to compute the frequency. This frequency is ultimately returned as
`average_precision_at_<k>`: an idempotent operation that simply divides
`average_precision_at_<k>/total` by `average_precision_at_<k>/max`.
For estimation of the metric over a stream of data, the function creates an
`update_op` operation that updates these variables and returns the
`precision_at_<k>`. Internally, a `top_k` operation computes a `Tensor`
indicating the top `k` `predictions`. Set operations applied to `top_k` and
`labels` calculate the true positives and false positives weighted by
`weights`. Then `update_op` increments `true_positive_at_<k>` and
`false_positive_at_<k>` using these values.
If `weights` is `None`, weights default to 1. Use weights of 0 to mask values.
Args:
labels: `int64` `Tensor` or `SparseTensor` with shape
[D1, ... DN, num_labels] or [D1, ... DN], where the latter implies
num_labels=1. N >= 1 and num_labels is the number of target classes for
the associated prediction. Commonly, N=1 and `labels` has shape
[batch_size, num_labels]. [D1, ... DN] must match `predictions`. Values
should be in range [0, num_classes), where num_classes is the last
dimension of `predictions`. Values outside this range are ignored.
predictions: Float `Tensor` with shape [D1, ... DN, num_classes] where
N >= 1. Commonly, N=1 and `predictions` has shape
[batch size, num_classes]. The final dimension contains the logit values
for each class. [D1, ... DN] must match `labels`.
k: Integer, k for #k metric. This will calculate an average precision for
range `[1,k]`, as documented above.
weights: `Tensor` whose rank is either 0, or n-1, where n is the rank of
`labels`. If the latter, it must be broadcastable to `labels` (i.e., all
dimensions must be either `1`, or the same as the corresponding `labels`
dimension).
metrics_collections: An optional list of collections that values should
be added to.
updates_collections: An optional list of collections that updates should
be added to.
name: Name of new update operation, and namespace for other dependent ops.
Returns:
mean_average_precision: Scalar `float64` `Tensor` with the mean average
precision values.
update: `Operation` that increments variables appropriately, and whose
value matches `metric`.
Raises:
ValueError: if k is invalid.
"""