Detail-enhanced error diffusion

Stefan Thurnhofer; Sanjit K. Mitra

doi:10.1117/1.600861

1 September 1996 Detail-enhanced error diffusion

Stefan Thurnhofer, Sanjit K. Mitra

Optical Engineering, Vol. 35, Issue 9, (September 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.600861

We propose a modification of the standard error-diffusion technique for image halftoning that enhances edges and textures by reducing the diffusion of the quantization error across edges. It employs a quadratic Volterra filter that extracts features from the original grayscale image and adapts the feedback loop to the local characteristics of the image. The additional computational complexity is small because the filter only uses a 3 X 3 region of support. Experimental comparisons of various techniques show that our modified error diffusion algorithm produces sharper results with improved contrast and detail resolution for both gray-scale and color images.

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Stefan Thurnhofer and Sanjit K. Mitra "Detail-enhanced error diffusion," Optical Engineering 35(9), (1 September 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.600861

Published: 1 September 1996

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