What are the most important/popular applications of eigenvalues and eigenvectors in practical terms, in fields such as computer science and computer graphics?
Wikipedia does mention some but doesn't really elaborate much.
What are the most important/popular applications of eigenvalues and eigenvectors in practical terms, in fields such as computer science and computer graphics?
Wikipedia does mention some but doesn't really elaborate much.
Eigenvectors and eigenvalues are important for understanding the properties of expander graphs, which I understand to have several applications in computer science (such as derandomizing random algorithms). They also give rise to a graph partitioning algorithm.
Perhaps the most famous application, however, is to Google's PageRank algorithm.
PRuler is an iPhone app that lets you measure objects using a credit card and your iPhone camera. I'm told it uses a Singular Value Decomposition (which is very closely related to eigenvalues and eigenvectors)