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The Gaussian kernel is continuous. Most commonly, the discrete equivalent is the sampled Gaussian kernel that is produced by sampling points from the continuous Gaussian. An alternate method is to use the discrete Gaussian kernel [10] which has superior characteristics for some purposes.
At the end, the form of the kernel is examined, and if it matches a known distribution, the normalization factor can be reinstated. Otherwise, it may be unnecessary (for example, if the distribution only needs to be sampled from). For many distributions, the kernel can be written in closed form, but not the normalization constant.
When utilized for image enhancement, the difference of Gaussians algorithm is typically applied when the size ratio of kernel (2) to kernel (1) is 4:1 or 5:1. In the example images, the sizes of the Gaussian kernels employed to smooth the sample image were 10 pixels and 5 pixels.
A kernel smoother is a statistical technique to estimate a real valued function: as the weighted average of neighboring observed data. The weight is defined by the kernel, such that closer points are given higher weights. The estimated function is smooth, and the level of smoothness is set by a single parameter.
A simple answer is to sample the continuous Gaussian, yielding the sampled Gaussian kernel. However, this discrete function does not have the discrete analogs of the properties of the continuous function, and can lead to undesired effects, as described in the article scale space implementation.
Output after kernel PCA, with a Gaussian kernel. Note in particular that the first principal component is enough to distinguish the three different groups, which is impossible using only linear PCA, because linear PCA operates only in the given (in this case two-dimensional) space, in which these concentric point clouds are not linearly separable.
A much better and theoretically more well-founded approach is to instead perform the smoothing with the discrete analogue of the Gaussian kernel, [6] which possesses similar properties over a discrete domain as makes the continuous Gaussian kernel special over a continuous domain, for example, the kernel corresponding to the solution of a ...
Demonstration of density estimation using Kernel density estimation: The true density is a mixture of two Gaussians centered around 0 and 3, shown with a solid blue curve. In each frame, 100 samples are generated from the distribution, shown in red. Centered on each sample, a Gaussian kernel is drawn in gray.