I have a classification task on a number of gray-scale images (m classes and n images in each class). Before showing my classification results, I want to show that the intra-class variation between the images is high and the inter-class variation is low. This is apparent when we see the images but how do we formulate it into a mathematical result? There was a question on comparing two matrices on Comparing two matrices in Matlab but I want to do it on n matrices of a class.
Could there be a criteria (class dependent) which could tell us that an image is x distance off the class average?