推土机距离matlab实现,[转][译]一种度量准则：推土机距离Earth Mover's Distance(EMD)...

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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 orprobability density functions. In that case, the EMD is equivalent to