function gmask = gaussMask(w, sigma)
% Version 0.1, Feb 2006.
% This code is copyrighted by Ashutosh Saxena, Stanford University
% It is available for non-commercial use only. For commericial use, please
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% Any publication or report resulting from Use of this code, should cite:
% Learning Depth from Single Monocular Images, Ashutosh Saxena, Sung H. Chung, Andrew Y. Ng, NIPS 2005.
% 3-D Depth Reconstruction from a Single Still Image, Ashutosh Saxena, Sung H. Chung, Andrew Y. Ng, To appear in IJCV 2007.
% For more info and dataset, visit: http://ai.stanford.edu/~asaxena/learningdepth/
% For a better version of the algorithm, also visit: 
% http://ai.stanford.edu/~asaxena/reconstruction3d/

 
ww = 2*w + 1;
 
[x,y] = meshgrid(-w:w, -w:w);
 
gmask = 1/(2*pi) * exp( -(x.^2 + y.^2)/2/sigma^2);
gmask = gmask / sum(sum(gmask));