NICE_VisLearning/math/distances/KLDistance.cpp

/** 
* @file KLDistance.cpp
* @brief $\chi^2$ distance measure
* @author Erik Rodner
* @date 02/19/2008

*/
#include <iostream>

#include "vislearning/math/distances/KLDistance.h"

using namespace OBJREC;

using namespace std;
// refactor-nice.pl: check this substitution
// old: using namespace ice;
using namespace NICE;

double DeprecatedKLDistance::doCalculate (const NICE::Vector & x, const NICE::Vector & y) const
{
    double dist = 0.0;
    for ( int i = 0 ; i < (int)x.size() ; i++ )
    {
	double u = x[i];
	double v = y[i];

	if ( fabs(u) < 10e-6 ) continue;
	if ( fabs(v) < 10e-6 ) v = 10e-6;
	
	dist += u * log ( u / v );
    }

    if ( dist < 0.0 ) dist = 0.0;
    return dist;
}