Improving mid-tone quality of variable-coefficient error diffusion using threshold modulation

ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers, SIGGRAPH '03

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 437-444

  Zhou, Bingfeng ^a   Fang, Xifeng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

blue noise; correlation; error diffusion; fourier transform; halftoning; threshold modulation

Indexed keywords

BLUE NOISE; DIFFUSION PARAMETERS; ERROR-DIFFUSION; HALFTONING; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; PARAMETER SET; THRESHOLD MODULATION; VISUAL ANOMALIES; VISUAL ARTIFACTS;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MODULATION; OPTIMIZATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 73849134436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1201775.882289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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