Lecture 3.5 - Image Pyramids.ipynb

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    "## Image Pyramids\n",
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    "Useful when scaling images in object detection."
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    "import cv2\n",
    "\n",
    "image = cv2.imread('images/input.jpg')\n",
    "\n",
    "smaller = cv2.pyrDown(image)\n",
    "larger = cv2.pyrUp(smaller)\n",
    "\n",
    "cv2.imshow('smaller', smaller)\n",
    "cv2.imshow('larger', larger)\n",
    "cv2.waitKey(0)\n",
    "cv2.destroyAllWindows()"
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