• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.148-153
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• 1998

칼라 역 해프토닝(Color inverse halftoning)은 해프토닝 칼라 영상을 시각적으로 보다 자연스러운 연속계조 칼라영상으로 변환해 주는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는, 분리된 각 칼라 채널 영상에서 나타나는 해프톤 셀 패턴을 효과적으로 제거할 수 있는 새로운 평활화 마스크를 제안하고, 이를 칼라역 해프토닝에 활용하였다. 제안한 평활화 마스크는 기존의 평활화 마스크가 잘 제거하지 못했던 해프톤, 셀 패턴을 시각적으로 보다 자연스럽게 평활해 줄 수 있으며, 마스크의 특성을 평활화하고자 하는 채널 영상에 적합하게 조정할 수 있도록 설계하였다. 실험을 통해, 평활화된 채널 영상과 그 스펙트럼을 비교 분석함으로써 제안한 방법의 유용성을 확인하였다. 이 방법은 전자 출판, 칼라 팩스, 해프톤 영상의 압축 등의 분야에 활용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.239-244
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• 2000

영상공간에서의 역 해프토닝 성능을 향상시키기 위해서는 정확한 해프톤 셀 정보를 기반으로 최적의 평활화 마스크가 생성되어야 한다. 이에 본 논문에서는, 퓨리에 공간에서 피크형태와 영상공간에서의 해프토닝 특성을 이용해서 정확한 해프톤 셀 정보를 추출하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 차원분해(dimension decomposition)와 제한된 구간의 자동 탐색에 의해 정확한 해프톤 셀 정보를 효율적으로 추출하므로 역 해프토닝의 성능을 향상 시키며, 전체 영상에서 오차의 누적없이 셀 중심(seed pixel)을 정확하게 찾는 것을 실험을 통해 확인하였다. 정확한 해프톤 셀 정보는 셀 단위의 연산이나 해프톤 영상의 채널 분리 및 모아레 패턴의 존재 여부 판정 시 활용할 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.123-131
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• 2005

Among the digital halftoning, the error diffusion halftoning gives better subjective quality than other halftoning techniques. But it also makes edges of objects blurred. To overcome the defect, this paper proposes the modified error diffusion halftoning algorithm to enhance the edges using the spatial perceptual properties of the human visual system. Using the properties that the human eyes perceive not the pixel's luminance itself but the local average luminance and the information that human eyes perceive spatial variation, the proposed method computes information of edge enhancement(IEE). The IEE is added to the quantizer's input pixel and feeds into the halftoning quantizer. The quantizer produces the halftone image having the enhanced edge. Also this paper proposes the technique that the coefficients of the error diffusion filter are adapted according to the correlation among color components. The computer simulation results show that the proposed method produces finer halftoning images than conventional methods due to the enhanced edges. And the proposed method also preserves similar in edges to original image and reduces some defects such as color impulse and false contours.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.308-319
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• 1999

In this paper we propose a new color inverse halftoning for color prints halftoned by clustered-dot. The proposed method divide channel image into blocks and then extract moire region according to its strength. To get more natural continuous tone image in human vision, the proposed method smooths the extracted moire region in proportion to moire strength. It can also preserve the significant edges well by considering edge information of color halftone image in the process of inverse halftoning. Experimental results show that the proposed method can make more improved inverse halftoning. Experimental results show that the proposed method can make more improved inverse halftoning image than the results of previous works. It could be applied to field of multimedia application, such as digital library construction, color print image compression and multimedia authoring.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.183-193
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• 1998

Color inverse halftoning is the transformation of a color-halftone image to a continuous-tone color image that is more natural in human vision. In this paper, we propose a new smoothing mask that can remove halftone patterns in channel effectively and we apply it to color inverse halftoning. The proposed smoothing mask can make channel images more smooth and natural in human vision than traditional ones. Its characteristic can be adapted automatically according to the various color halftone images. We analyze the result images in various aspects through experiments. Experimental results show that the mask is useful for color inverse halftoning. It can be applied to field of multimedia application, such as desktop publishing, color facsimile and digital library construction.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.164-172
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• 2004

Halftoning of gray-scale image is a process to produce a binary image. The error diffusion halftoning method produces high qualify binary image but that has some defects such as sharpening and directional artifacts. We propose the threshold modulation to reduce such defects. The proposed algorithm uses thresholds reflecting local characteristic of image. We calculate thresholds which minimize errors of flat region of each gray-scale level by using a linear gain between original image and error-diffused image and then represent edge by compensating thresholds in proportion to edge information. The proposed method improves on halftone quality by minimizing an error which cause sharpening and directional artifact.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.2 s.105
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• pp.77-82
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• 2006

Digital halftoning is the technique to obtain a bilevel-toned image from continuous-toned image. Among halftoning methods, the error diffusion method gives better subjective quality than other halftoning ones. But it also makes edges of objects blurred. To overcome the defect, we proposes the modified error diffusion to enhance the edges using the property that human vision perceives the local average luminance and doesn't perceive a little variation of the spatial variation. The proposed method computes a spatialactivity, which is the difference between a pixel luminance and the average of its $3{\times}3$ neighborhood pixels' Iuminance weighted according to the spatial positioning. The system also usesof edge enhancement (IEE), which is computed from the normalized spatial activitymultiplied by the average luminance. The IEE is added to the quantizer's input pixel and feeds into the halftoning quantizer. The quantizer produces the halftone image having the enhanced edge. The computer experimental results show that the proposed method produces clearer bilevel-toned images than conventional methodsand the edge of objects is preserved well. Also the performance of the preposed method is improved, compared with that of the conventional method by measuring the edge correlation and the local average accordance at some ranges of viewing distance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.184-189
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• 2000

역 해프토닝의 성능을 향상시키려면 최적의 평활화마스크가 생성되어야하고, ？거의 평활화 마스크를 생성하기 위해서는 정확한 해프톤 셀 정보가 구해져야한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 퓨리에 공간에서 가우시안 보간법에 의해 구해진 피크위치를 이용해서 해프톤 셀 정보의 초기값을 설계하고 spatial 공간에서 셀크기, 각도 및 offset을 미세조정하면서 , 반복연산 (iteration )을 통한 해프톤 셀정보 추출방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법으로 구한 해프톤 셀 정보를 이용하면 최적의 평활화 마스크를 만들 수 있으며 , 영상의 원점에서 멀리 떨어져 오차가 많이 누적되는 부분에서도 해프톤 셀 중심(seed pixel)을 정확하게 구하는 것을 실험을 통해 확인하였다. 제안한 방법은 평활화 마스크를 만들기 위한 정보로 사용될 뿐만 아니라 , 해프톤 셀단위의 연산이나, 퓨리에 공간의 피크 정보를 이용하여 텍스쳐 패턴을 찾는 분야등에 유용하게 활용할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.87-92
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• 2004

Digital halftoning is to quantize a grayscale image to binary image. The error diffusion halftoning generates high quality bilevel image. But that also has some defects such as warms effect, sharpening and etc. To reduce these defects, Kite proposed the modified threshold modulation that has a parameter to control sharpening. Nevertheless some degradation left near edges with large luminance change. In this paver, we propose a method to control the parameter in proportional to local edge magnitude. The results of computer simulation show more reductions of the sharpening in the halftone image. Especially there are great improvement of quality near edges with large luminance change.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.221-228
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• 2005

The paper proposes the improved error diffusion halftoning system to enhance the edges using the spatial perceptual characteristics of the human visual system. The proposed method computes a spatial variation(SV), which is the difference between a pixel luminance and the average of its $3{\times}3$ neighborhood pixels' luminances weighted according to the spatial positioning. Information of edge enhancement(IEE) Is computed using the SV and the local average luminance. The IEE is added to the quantizer's input pixel and feeds into the halftoning quantizer. The quantizer produces the halftone image having the enhanced edge. The performance of the proposed method is compared with conventional methods by measuring the edge correlation. The halftone images by using the proposed method show better quality due to the enhanced edge. And the detailed edge is preserved in the halftone images by using the proposed method.