scikit-image/scikit-image — pull request #1105 by pmneila (2014-08-17 22:16:11+00:00)
Title: Minor fix for bugs in HOG implementation

There are some problems with the current implementation of the HOG features:

- The code for the visualisation of the features has the coordinate Y flipped upside down, i.e., the representation of the gradients is mirrored in the vertical direction.
- The gradients are computed calling to ``np.diff`` for each axis. ``np.diff`` uses an even length filter [-1, 1] that causes problems when applied in image edges with diagonal orientations.

This [IPython notebook](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/pmneila/832aa665680f54e99937) contains two example images where the current HOG implementation fails and the fixed code provides proper results.