function [a,d]=dualdiag(w,b)
%DUALDIAG Simultaneous diagonalisation of two hermitian matrices [A,D]=(W,B)
% Given two hermitian matrices W and B with W positive definite, this routine
% calculates A such that A'*W*A=I and A'*B*A=diag(D). The D will be in descending order.
%
% Suppose we have several N-dimensional data row-vectors arising from each of C different classes of data.
% for each class, c, we can form the mean data vector m(c) and the within-class covariance matrix W(c)
% We can then form the between class covariance matrix B by taking the covariance of the mean vectors m(1), m(2), ...
% and also the averaged within-class covariance matrix W by averaging W(1), W(2), ...
% If we then take A=dualdiag(W,B) and postmultiply all our original data vectors by A, we obtain new
% data vectors for which the average within-class covariance matrix is the identity and for which
% the first few components contain most of the information that is useful in discriminating between classes.

% An alternative algorithm that is 20% faster but slightly less accurate is:
% n=size(w,1);
% [v,l]=eig(w\b);
% [s,i]=sort(-diag(l));
% s=-s;
% d=l(i*(n+1)-n);
% q=sqrt(diag(v'*w*v))'.^(-1);
% a=v(:,i).*q(ones(n,1),i);


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[y,l]=eig(w+w');
z=y*diag(sqrt(diag(l*0.5)).^(-1));
[u,s,v]=svd(z'*(b+b')*z);
d=diag(s)*0.5;
a=z*u;