pyemd

A Python wrapper around FastEMD by Ofir Pele.

Please cite these papers if you use this code:

 A Linear Time Histogram Metric for Improved SIFT Matching
 Ofir Pele, Michael Werman
 ECCV 2008
bibTex:
@INPROCEEDINGS{Pele-eccv2008,
author = {Ofir Pele and Michael Werman},
title = {A Linear Time Histogram Metric for Improved SIFT Matching},
booktitle = {ECCV},
year = {2008}
}
 Fast and Robust Earth Mover's Distances
 Ofir Pele, Michael Werman
 ICCV 2009
@INPROCEEDINGS{Pele-iccv2009,
author = {Ofir Pele and Michael Werman},
title = {Fast and Robust Earth Mover's Distances},
booktitle = {ICCV},
year = {2009}
}

The code in the subdirectory, FastEMD, is taken from the website, http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ofirpele/FastEMD/

I've successfully compiled on Windows Python 2.7 AMD64, Cython 0.20.1 and numpy 1.7.0 and the Windows SDK. Pull requests that correct build problems on other platforms would be appreciated.