Last I checked, image resizing was anything but trivial. I get your point, but if you were optimizing for low energy consumption, you’d want to skip that downsc

Last I checked, image resizing was anything but trivial. I get your point, but if you were optimizing for low energy consumption, you’d want to skip that downscaling because dropping every nth pixel actually removes data; meanwhile convolution operations are slow and cannot be done in-place i.e. without making it obvious what is happening.