High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pyramid or 'pyramid representation' is a type of multi-scale signal representation developed by the computer vision, image processing and signal processing communities, in which a signal or an image is subject to repeated smoothing and subsampling. Historically, pyramid representation is a predecessor to scale space representation and multiresolution analysis.There are two main types of pyramids; lowpass pyramids and bandpass pyramids. A lowpass pyramid is generated by first smoothing the image with an appropriate smoothing filter and then subsampling the smoothed image, usually by a factor of two along each coordinate direction. As this process proceeds, the result will be a set of gradually more smoothed images, where in addition the spatial sampling density decreases level by level.