The bilateral wavelet pyramid (BWP): A novel image representation

In this paper, we study the properties of the bilateral pyramid, based on which a novel image representation-the bilateral wavelet pyramid (BWP) is proposed. The BWP provides a multi-resolution technique to manipulate image variances simultaneously in radiometric, spatial and frequency domains. Application to texture retrieval is discussed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the BWP.

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