A steerable pyramid, developed by [[Eero Simoncelli|Simoncelli]] and others, is an implementation of a multi-scale, multi-orientation [[band-pass filter]] bank used for applications including [[image compression]], [[texture synthesis]], and [[Outline of object recognition|object recognition]]. It can be thought of as an orientation selective version of a Laplacian pyramid, in which a bank of [[steerable filter]]s are used at each level of the pyramid instead of a single Laplacian ofor [[Gaussian filter]].<ref>{{Cite web |first=Eero |last=Simoncelli |url=http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~eero/STEERPYR/ |title=The Steerable Pyramid |publisher=cns.nyu.edu }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first1=Roberto |last1=Manduchi |first2=Pietro |last2=Perona |first3=Doug |last3=Shy |title=Efficient Deformable Filter Banks |url=http://www.vision.caltech.edu/publications/ManduchiPeronaShy_efficient_deformable.pdf |publisher=[[California Institute of Technology]]/[[University of Padua]] |year=1997 }} <br />Also in {{Cite journal |journal=Transactions on Signal Processing |title=Efficient Deformable Filter Banks |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=1168–1173 |year=1998 |doi=10.1109/78.668570|last1=Manduchi |first1=R. |last2=Perona |first2=P. |last3=Shy |first3=D. |citeseerx=10.1.1.5.3102 }}</ref><ref>Stanley A. Klein ; Thom Carney ; Lauren Barghout-Stein and Christopher W. Tyler
"Seven models of masking", Proc. SPIE 3016, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging II, 13 (June 3, 1997); {{DOI|10.1117/12.274510}}</ref>
