Blue-noise halftoning for hexagonal grids

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1270-1284

  Lau, Daniel L ^a   Ulichney, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue noise; Green noise; Halftoning; Printing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; FOURIER OPTICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BLUE-NOISE HALFTONING; GREEN-NOISE; HEXAGONAL GRIDS;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33646006691     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.864160     Document Type: Article

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