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DownsampleImage


Shrinks an image by the factor of two along each axis.

Name Type Range Description
inImage Image Input image
inScaleStep Integer 0 - 12 Defines how many times the image size is divided by 2
outImage Image Output image

Applications

Usually used to speed-up image analysis at the cost of reduced precision. It is internally used to implement the pyramid strategy in template matching filters.

Description

The operation shrinks the inImage reducing its dimensions by a factor of two inScaleStep times.

Remarks

The operation produces a new image by averaging four neighboring pixels from the source image repeatedly. New width and height of image are always rounded up, thus pixels from source image at last row or column are averaged in pairs or copied when corresponding dimension is odd.

This operation can be used as faster replacement for ShrinkImageNTimes.

Hardware Acceleration

This operation is optimized for SSE2 technology for pixels of type: 1xUINT8.

This operation is optimized for SSSE3 technology for pixels of type: 3xUINT8.

This operation supports automatic parallelization for multicore and multiprocessor systems.

Complexity Level

This filter is available on Basic Complexity Level.

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