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An Optimum Design of Error Diffusion Filters Using the Blue Noise in All Graylevels

Junghyeun HWANG, Hisakazu KIKUCHI, Shogo MURAMATSU, Jaeho SHIN

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The error diffusion filter in this paper is optimized with respect to the ideal blue noise pattern corresponding to a single tone level. The filter coefficients are optimized by the minimization of the squared error norm between the Fourier power spectra of the resulting halftone and the blue noise pattern. During the process of optimization, the binary pattern power spectrum matching algorithm is applied with the aid of a new blue noise model. The number of the optimum filters is equal to that of different tones. The visual fidelity of the bilevel halftones generated by the error diffusion filters is evaluated in terms of a weighted signal-to-noise ratio, Fourier power spectra, and others. Experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed filter set generates satisfactory bilevel halftones of grayscale images.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E93-A No.8 pp.1465-1475
Publication Date
2010/08/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E93.A.1465
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Digital Signal Processing

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