Restoration of Color Halftone Image by Using Fast Inverse Half Toning Algorithm

A fast inverse half toning algorithm is used for error diffused halftones. Halftones and other binary images are difficult to process cause several degradations. Jarvis's halftoning operator is used to obtain sharper halftone image. Color image of 24-bit BMP formats splits image into 8- bit R-G...

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Main Authors: Kekre, H.B., Sange, S.R., Kolhe, A.K., Mali, B.L.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Costs
Degradation
Diffusion
Finite impulse response filter
Gray-scale
Halftoning
Image coding
Image reconstruction
Image restoration
Iterative algorithms
PSNR
Smoothing methods
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Summary:A fast inverse half toning algorithm is used for error diffused halftones. Halftones and other binary images are difficult to process cause several degradations. Jarvis's halftoning operator is used to obtain sharper halftone image. Color image of 24-bit BMP formats splits image into 8- bit R-G-B planes. Degradation is greatly reduced if the halftone is inverse halftone (converted to gray scale) before scaling, or other processing. At each pixel, the proposed algorithm applies a separable 7 times 7 FIR filter. The filter passes in vertical and horizontal direction separately and computes vertical and horizontal edge strengths from local gradients. It requires entirely local operations and storage of 7 rows. We compare our algorithm with previously reported approaches to show that it delivers comparable subjective quality at a fraction of the computation and memory usage.
DOI:10.1109/ARTCom.2009.36