Detailed Description of the Laplacian Pyramid method

This project asks you to study the supplied code for enhancing high resolution medical and scientific images and develop from it a Map-Reduce distributed task that performs the same enhancement – but has the capability to process, in a timely way, images many times the size. The image processing technique uses a Laplacian Pyramid to find and enhance edges in frequency space, and tunes the greyscale to enhance contrast. One of the important challenges of this project is identifying the opportunities for parallelism within the processing of a single large image, without generating offsetting inefficiency due to overhead. For your image processing enjoyment, we’ve included mammograms, for which this technique has been previously studied and has dramatic results, as well as lunar images, for which we’ve observed that it is also very effective.