Incorporating human visual model and spatial sampling in banding artifact reduction

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 2642-2647

  Chen, Cheng Lun ^a   Chiu, George T C ^b  

^a LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN VISUAL MODELS; LINEAR PARAMETER VARYING REPETITIVE CONTROLLERS (LPVRC); SPATIAL SAMPLING;

CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

XEROGRAPHY;

CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTATIC COPYING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAMPLING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 8744309877     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2004.182504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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