理解whitening(白化)
首先理解什么是whitening白化,以下内容引用自wikipedia维基百科:
A whitening transformation or sphering transformation is a linear transformation that transforms a vector of random variables with a known covariance matrix into a set of new variables whose covariance is the identity matrix, meaning that they are uncorrelated and each have variance 1.[1] The transformation is called “whitening” because it changes the input vector into a white noise vector.
白化转换是一个线性转换,它将具有已知协方差矩阵的随机变量向量转换为一组新的变量,这些变量的协方差是单位矩阵,这意味着它们是不相关的,每个变量的方差都是1。
在维基中,白化定义如下:
Suppose X X X is a random (column) vector with non-singular covariance matrix Σ \Sigma Σ and mean 0 0 0. Then the transformation Y