What is Laplacian pyramid used for?
The Laplacian pyramid provides that extra level of analysis, breaking the image into different isotropic spatial frequency bands. The Steerable pyramid provides a clean separation of the image into different scales and ori- entations.
What is a pyramidal image?
A pyramidal image is any image that is represented by a pyramid of images where higher images in the pyramid are smaller, lower resolution and lower images are larger, higher resolution.