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What do frequencies mean in an image?

If an image has large values at high frequency components then the data is changing rapidly on a short distance scale. e.g. a page of text

If the image has large low frequency components then the large scale features of the picture are more important. e.g. a single fairly simple object which occupies most of the image.



tex2html_wrap_inline2984 David Marshall 1994-1997