A multiscale error diffusion technique for digital halftoning

  • Authors:
  • I. Katsavounidis;C. -C. Jay Kuo

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

A new digital halftoning technique based on multiscale error diffusion is examined. We use an image quadtree to represent the difference image between the input gray-level image and the output halftone image. In iterative algorithm is developed that searches the brightest region of a given image via “maximum intensity guidance” for assigning dots and diffuses the quantization error noncausally at each iteration. To measure the quality of halftone images, we adopt a new criterion based on hierarchical intensity distribution. The proposed method provides very good results both visually and in terms of the hierarchical intensity quality measure