It's about digit recogntion and HOG.I am a beginner about them，can anyone tell the meaning of these codes？Thank you so much.Just below '# transform to Hellinger kernel'.Why the vector should be treated with these steps?
def preprocess_hog(digits):
samples = []
for img in digits:
gx = cv2.Sobel(img, cv2.CV_32F, 1, 0)
gy = cv2.Sobel(img, cv2.CV_32F, 0, 1)
mag, ang = cv2.cartToPolar(gx, gy)
bin_n = 16
bin = np.int32(bin_n*ang/(2*np.pi))
bin_cells = bin[:10,:10], bin[10:,:10], bin[:10,10:], bin[10:,10:]
mag_cells = mag[:10,:10], mag[10:,:10], mag[:10,10:], mag[10:,10:]
hists = [np.bincount(b.ravel(), m.ravel(), bin_n) for b, m in zip(bin_cells, mag_cells)]
hist = np.hstack(hists)
# transform to Hellinger kernel
eps = 1e-7
hist /= hist.sum() + eps
hist = np.sqrt(hist)
hist /= norm(hist) + eps
samples.append(hist)
return np.float32(samples)