• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.3
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• pp.319-326
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• 2001

오차확산법은 중간조 처리에서 우수한 영상의 재현능력을 갖는 기법이다. 그러나 이의 기법은 경계재현 능력이 미약하며, 주기적인 패턴이 발생하여 영상의 화질을 저하시키는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 경계재현의 능력을 개선하기 위한 경계강조법과 주기적인 패턴 발생을 감소시키기 위한 적응형 임계값 변조를 적용하는 방법을 제안하였다. 경계강조를 위한 임계값을 변조는 원영상의 공간적 기울기 정보를 활용하여 수행하였고, 동시에 기울기 정보를 이용하여 청색잡음 마스크를 적응적으로 적용하는 임계값 변조로 주기적인 패턴의 발생을 감소시키도록 하였다. 적응형 임계값 변조를 적용한 실험에서 영상의 주기적인 패턴이 감소된 보다 선명한 경계강조의 중간조 영상을 얻을 수 있었으며, 객관적인 특성분석을 위한 표시오차의 RAPSD, 거리에 따른 경계상관도 및 로컬 평균 일치도의 분석에서 제안한 기법이 효율적임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.96-104
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• 2011

A halftoning method is used to obtain a binary image visually similar to a continuous gray-level image through the image output devices employing the limited number of gray-levels. As a halftoning method, the error diffusion method is widely used in various applications because of its low computational complexity and good image quality. However, this method weakens the edge in the process of error diffusion to the neighboring pixels. In this case, degradation of the edge quality and damage of the vivid image is expected. To solve these problems, the proposed method determines the adaptive error filter considering the error information of the present pixel and edge distribution of the neighbor pixels. Compared with the conventional methods for enhancing edges, the proposed method involves relatively a few process resources because of its simple procedure, still considerably improving the edges in the halftone image. To evaluate the objective image quality, the performance of the proposed method is compared with that of the conventional method in terms of the edge correlation and the local average accordance.

• Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.91-106
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• 1997

The new algorithm for halftone generation for gravure engraving was developed. The basic concept of this algorithm is based on the mapping and equal density expansion methods that we are mapped out. The program was used by the Microsoft Visiul C++2.0 and could be loaded in IBM personal computer.

• 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.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.85-94
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• 2023

Image halftoning is a technique for varying grayscale images into two-tone binary images. Unfortunately, the static representation of an image-half toning, wherever each pixel intensity is combined by its local neighbors only, causes missing subjective problem. Also, the existing noise causes an instability criterion. In this paper an image half-toning is represented as a dynamical system for recognizing the global representation. Also, noise is reduced based on a probabilistic model. Since image half-toning is considered as 2-D matrix with a full connected pass, this structure is recognized by the dynamical system of Cellular Neural Networks (CNNs) which is defined by its template. Bayesian Rough Sets is used in exploiting the ideal CNNs construction that synthesis its dynamic. Also, Bayesian rough sets contribute to enhance the quality of the halftone image by removing noise and discovering the effective parameters in the CNNs template. The novelty of this method lies in finding a probabilistic based technique to discover the term of CNNs template and define new learning rules for CNNs internal work. A numerical experiment is conducted on image half-toning corrupted by Gaussian noise.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.313-321
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• 2005

Digital halftoning is a process to produce a binary image so that the original image and its binary counterpart appear similar when observed from a distance. Among digital halftoning methods, error diffusion is a procedure for generating high quality bilevel images from continuous-tone images but blurs the edge information in the bilevel images. To solve this problem, we propose the improved error diffusion using local spatial information of the original images. Based on the fact that the human vision perceives not a pixel but local mean of input image, we compute edge enhancement information(EEI) by appling the ratio of a pixel and its adjacent pixels to local mean. The weights applied to local means is computed using the ratio of local activity measure(LAM) to the difference between input pixels of 3$\times$3 blocks and theirs mean. LAM is the measure of luminance changes in local regions and is obtained by adding the square of the difference between input pixels of 3$\times$3 blocks and theirs mean. We add the value to a input pixel of quantizer to enhance 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. Also the proposed method improves the quality of halftone images because unpleasant patterns for human visual system are reduced.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.1 s.307
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• pp.9-16
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• 2006

This Paper proposes an adaptive error diffusioThis paper proposes an adaptive error diffusion algorithm for text enhancement followed by an efficient text segmentation that uses the maximum gradient difference (MGD). The gradients are calculated along with scan lines, and the MGD values are filled within a local window to merge the potential text segments. Isolated segments are then eliminated in the non-text region filtering process. After the left segmentation, a conventional error diffusion method is applied to the background, while the edge enhancement error diffusion is used for the text. Since it is inevitable that visually objectionable artifacts are generated when using two different halftoning algorithms, the gradual dilation is proposed to minimize the boundary artifacts in the segmented text blocks before halftoning. Sharpening based on the gradually dilated text region (GDTR) prevents the printing of successive dots around the text region boundaries. The error diffusion algorithm with edge enhancement is extended to halftone color images to sharpen the tort regions. The proposed adaptive error diffusion algorithm involves color halftoning that controls the amount of edge enhancement using a general error filter. The multiplicative edge enhancement parameters are selected based on the amount of edge sharpening and color difference. Plus, the additional error factor is introduced to reduce the dot elimination artifact generated by the edge enhancement error diffusion. By using the proposed algorithm, the text of a scanned image is sharper than that with a conventional error diffusion without changing background.

• Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.23-36
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• 1998

Moisture content of printing paper and circumstance of printing room has great influence on the printing works. We have studied on the printability of domestic art paper according to the insufficient Korea weather. As the result, we found the printability of domestic art paper are much more affect by moisture content than any other printability coefficients, especially print density and hygroexpansivity decrease with moisture content increase.

• Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.41-55
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• 1997

We examine various digital halftoning technique and their application to printings. Three such technique are the error diffusion, cluster dither and disperse dither method. This paper describes a new tone correction halftone method to compensate dot gain. Input digital level are transformed by tone correction characteristics. The function of tone correction are solved from the printer response characteristic. The experimental results show that the proposed method is useful and valid.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.153-158
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 해프톤 패턴의 간섭현상으로 발생하는 모아레 패턴을 효과적으로 제거할 수 있는 새로운 모아레 패턴 평활화 방법을 제시한다. 제안한 방법에서는 모아레 패턴이 존재하는 영역에 대해서만 그 세기에 따라 평활화 정도를 적극적으로 조정해 주기 때문에, 모아레 패턴을 효과적으로 제거하면서 경계나 텍스쳐 같은 의미있는 고주파 성분도 잘 보존할 수 있다. 또한 기존의 방법과 달리 퓨리에 변환과 같은 추가 연산을 필요로 하지 않고 미리 만들어진 테이블을 참조하는 과정만으로 모아레 피크의 세기를 결정하기 때문에 연산 시간 측면에 서로 효율적이다. 제안한 방법은 칼라 인쇄물을 다루는 다양한 멀티미디어 분야에서 유용하게 활용될 수 있다.