Multi-scale probabilistic dithering for suppressing banding artifacts in digital images

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bhagavathy, Sitaram ^a   Llach, Joan ^a   Zhai, Jie Fu ^a  

^a Thomson Corporate Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Banding artifact removal; Debanding; Decontouring; False contour removal

Indexed keywords

PIXELS;

BANDING ARTIFACT; COLOR QUANTIZATION; DEBANDING; DECONTOURING; DETECTION MECHANISM; DIGITAL IMAGE; INPUT IMAGE; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 48149103728     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2007.4380038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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