A new model-based digital halftoning and data hiding designed with LMS optimization

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 687-699

  Guo, Jing Ming ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data hiding; Dot diffusion; Dot gain; Error diffusion; Halftone; Least squares; Ordered dither; Printer model; Water marking

Indexed keywords

DATA HIDING; DIRECT EMBEDDING LMS-DESIGNED HALFTONE TECHNIQUE (DELDH); ERROR DIFFUSION; GRAY LEVEL IMAGES; HALFTONE IMAGES; LEAST-MEAN-SQUARE (LMS); PRINTER MODEL;

IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249290787     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2007.895678     Document Type: Article

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