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An image pyramid is a multi-scale representation of an image comprising a hierarchy of fine to coarse resolution versions. Generated by iterative filtering and sampling, a tapered pyramid structure is formed by the sequence of the input image at consecutively halved resolutions.
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The concept of an image pyramid was formulated by Tanimoto and Pavlidis [1] as a means to improve processing efficiency. Here, the issue of scale is raised through the need for selectivity of visual attention as in human visual systems. Scale is a crucial aspect in image representation as different objects may require different resolutions to faithfully represent the details in the scene. Since digital images comprise rasterized pixels in a fixed grid, explicit multi-scale representation is required to mimic the efficiency of human vision.
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Lee, S., Lee, K.M. (2020). Image Pyramid. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_840-1
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