以下内容为罗方炜译:
Earth mover’s distance
In computer science, the earth mover’s distance (EMD) is a measure of the distance between two probability distributions over a region D. In mathematics, this is known as the Wasserstein metric. Informally, if the distributions are interpreted as two different ways of piling up a certain amount of dirt over the region D, the EMD is the minimum cost of turning one pile into the other; where the cost is assumed to be amount of dirt moved times the distance by which it is moved [1].
在计算机科学与技术中,地球移动距离(EMD)是一种在D区域两个概率分布距离的度量,就是被熟知的Wasserstein度量标准。不正式的说,如果两个分布被看作在D区域上两种不同方式堆积一定数量的山堆,那么EMD就是把一堆变成另一堆所需要移动单位小块最小的距离之和。
The above definition is valid only if the two distributions have the same integral (informally, if the two piles have the same amount of dirt), as in normalized histograms orpr