A theory of nonsubtractive dither

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 499-516

  Wannamaker, Robert A ^a   Lipshitz, Stanley P ^a   Vanderkooy, John ^a   Wright, J Nelson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Parallax Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Dither; Quantization

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NONSUBTRACTIVE DITHER;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 0033908505     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.823976     Document Type: Article

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