Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Naman Kasliwal Date: 6/2/2018

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Introduction:
 Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a useful technique for dimensionality reduction
 It is optimal to represent the variability of the training data with as few dimensions as
possible
 PCA helps find the combinations of variables that explain the most variance
 PCA seeks orthogonal linear combinations of the features which show the greatest variance,
and as such, can help give you a good idea of the structure of the data set
 Linear dimensionality reduction uses approximated Singular Value Decomposition of the
data and keeps only the most significant singular vectors to project the data to a lower
dimensional space

Input Images:

Result of applying PCA:

The mean image (top left) and the first seven modes; that is, the directions with most variation.