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However, it is experimentally possible to demonstrate that these limitations can be overcome by using reduced-resolution images and resizing techniques. The evaluation of the proposed model indicated satisfactory performance compared to state-of-the-art works that use images with resolutions identical to those in this work, validating the comparative tests. It presented an improvement in the Absolute Relative Error of 25.22% and 6.28% in relation to the Root Mean Squared Error. 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