Hardcopy image barcodes via block-error diffusion

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1977-1989

  Damera Venkata, Niranjan ^a   Yen, Jonathan ^a   Monga, Vishal ^b   Evans, Brian L ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Barcodes; Halftoning; Hardcopy security; Information embedding

Indexed keywords

BAR CODES; BLOCK CODES; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DECODING; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; IMAGE QUALITY; SCANNING;

BLOCK FILTERING; BLOCK QUANTIZATION; ERROR DIFFUSION; HARDCOPY SECURITY; IMAGE BARCODES; INFORMATION CAPACITY TRADEOFFS; INFORMATION EMBEDDING;

IMAGE CODING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SECURITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PACKAGING; PRINTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SECURITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRINTING; PRODUCT LABELING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 28844506126     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.859776     Document Type: Article

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