Subjective image quality for multi-level error diffusion and its objective evaluation method

Journal of Imaging Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 170-177

  Miyata, Kimiyoshi ^a,b   Tsumura, Norimichi ^a   Haneishi, Hideaki ^a   Miyake, Yoichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

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