<p>In <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/696#discussion_r67198515">src/mlpack/methods/edge_boxes/feature_extraction_impl.hpp</a>:</p>
<pre style='color:#555'>&gt; +  // transform along rows
&gt; +  for (size_t y = 0; y &lt; im.n_rows; y++)
&gt; +  {
&gt; +    f.subvec(0, im.n_cols - 1) = im.row(y).t();
&gt; +    arma::vec d = this-&gt;DistanceTransform1D(f, im.n_cols, inf);
&gt; +    im.row(y) = d.t();
&gt; +  }
&gt; +}
&gt; +
&gt; +/* euclidean distance transform of binary image using squared distance */
&gt; +template&lt;typename MatType, typename CubeType&gt;
&gt; +MatType StructuredForests&lt;MatType, CubeType&gt;::
&gt; +DistanceTransformImage(MatType const &amp;im, double on)
&gt; +{
&gt; +  //need a large value but not infinity.
&gt; +  double inf = 999999.99;
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<p>As zoq mentions, we can define a const value for inf and -inf(DBL_MAX and -DBL_MAX).</p>

<pre><code>constexpr double DBL_MAX = std::numeric_limits&lt;double&gt;::max();
constexpr double DBL_MIN = std::numeric_limits&lt;double&gt;::min();

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