Contourlet is a type of tool that helps people to break down pictures like paintings, photos or drawings into smaller pieces so that they can understand the picture in a more detailed way. Imagine you have a big picture of a forest, but you want to know more about the trees, animals, and plants in it. So you take a magnifying glass and look at each piece of the picture closely. Contourlet works in a similar way, but it breaks an image in specific ways to help us see it better.
Contourlet does this by dividing the picture into tiny squares and then breaking those squares down into other shapes in a specific way. Each shape represents a different set of features in the picture like color, texture, brightness, and contrast. This helps us see more detail in the picture that we may have missed before.
In simpler terms, contourlet is like a magician's wand that splits up a picture into smaller parts and then shows us the important features to help us understand it better.