Multi-layer image compression algorithm for e-commerce

A new method for pyramidal image decomposition called inverse is presented. This method permits to obtain first low resolution components while mainly concentrating image energy in these first components. Each one of its components is defined on the basis of approximating models representing the so called oriented surfaces of second degree, which constitute the different levels of the corresponding difference pyramid in the image space with minimum mean-square error (MSE). The inverse pyramidal decomposition (IPD) is compared to the pyramidal structures based on the well-known Laplacian pyramid and to the related reduced pyramids