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+%% 2011 Adapted to Octave by Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal@ifi.uzh.ch>
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+%% -*- texinfo -*-
+%% @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{vn} = } normalizeVector (@var{v})
+%% Normalize a vector to have norm equal to 1
+%%
+%% Returns the normalization of vector @var{v}, such that ||@var{v}|| = 1.
+%% @var{v} can be either a row or a column vector.
+%%
+%% When @var{v} is a MxN array, normalization is performed for each row of the
+%% array.
+%%
+%% Example:
+%%
+%% @example
+%% vn = normalizeVector([3 4])
+%% vn =
+%% 0.6000 0.8000
+%% vectorNorm(vn)
+%% ans =
+%% 1
+%% @end example
+%%
+%% @seealso{vectors2d, vectorNorm}
+%% @end deftypefn
+
+function vn = normalizeVector(v)
+
+ dim = size(v);
+
+ if dim(1)==1 || dim(2)==1
+ vn = v / sqrt(sum(v.^2));
+ else
+ %same as: vn = v./repmat(sqrt(sum(v.*v, 2)), [1 dim(2)]);
+ vn = bsxfun(@rdivide, v, sqrt(sum(v.^2, 2)));
+ end
+
+endfunction
+
+%!assert (1,vectorNorm (normalizeVector ([3 4])))
+