There are 4 MATLAB files in this directory: klt.m performs the discrete KL transform on a set of vectors project.m does the projection on the resulting eigenspace, computes the "distance-from-feature-space" and the reconstruction. dffs_map.m computes the "distance-from-feature-space" at every pixel over in input image read_uchars.m utility for reading in a set of images into a matrix These files have MATLAB help files built in, so you can type (for example) >> help klt inside MATLAB for help on their syntax and function. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Step 1: Take your set of training images and put them in a directory. The files should be unsigned char (8 bits/pixel) in standard raster format (with NO headers, just raw pixel dumps). Most importantly, they should be labeled data0, data1, data2 .... dataN Step 2: From inside matlab use read_uchars() to read them into a matrix, where each column is the vectorized image (column-concatenated). The arguments to read_uchars are the directory dir, an index vector n that indicates which (possibly a subset) of the data you wanna read in, and a 1-by-2 vector Size of the dimensions of the image. Type help read_uchars in Matlab for more info. Eg. Lets say you have 50 images of size 640-by-480 in the directory Test to read all the even ones into a matrix in Matlab you issue the command. >> X = read_uchars('Test',0:2:48,[640 480]); Step 3: Next you compute the principal components using the following command (type "help klt" in matlab for more detailed info): >> [U,Xm] = klt(X); Step 4: To project this (or another matrix of images) onto, say the first 10 eigenvectors, use project() >> C = project(X,Xm,U,1:10); C is now a matrix of coefficients, where each column is the expansion coefficients of the corresponding image in X Step 5: To compute the "distance-from-feature-space" metric for a set of images X, use project.m with the second output argument: >> [C,D] = project(X,Xm,U,1:10); To compute the DFFS metric at every pixel in an input image, use the function dffs_map.m