Normalize/scale in range

hi all,

I would like to normalize values in a 18x17 matrix to have values between -1 and 1.

I would also like to be able to say that 0 = 76 mm, -1 = 71 mm, 1 = 81 mm for example instead of just using the min and max values in the array.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[dpb]

You can't do both unless the min/max are <= the chosen min/max.

NB: if you do choose the above three points the scaling between negative and positive results will be skewed by a significant amount -- double, in fact.

But, it's simply solving for the linear coefficients between the two...or you could use interp1

Answer 1

[Kaashyap Pappu]

The code below can help perform matrix normalization where you have to specify the appropriate -1, 0 and 1 values in variables "pointZero", "pointPositive" and "pointNegative". Any value lower than -1 is set to -1 and any value greater than one is set to 1.

Assuming "a" is your matrix,

a = (a - pointZero)/(pointPositive-pointNegative);
a(a<-1)=-1;
a(a>1)=1;

Note that the points raised by dpb are valid and could affect the properties of the values in the matrix.

Hope this helps!