• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.487-491
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• 2009

The inverse halftoning is processing to restore the image made binary to former step image. There are smoothing and gaussian filtering in the technique so far. However, there are still a lot of insufficient points in past inverse halftoning. The removal of the noise and the edge enhansment are closely related in inverse halftoning. It is difficult to do both the noise rednctiom and the edge enhansment in high accuracy at the same time in the technique so far. The technique that can achieve both the removal of the noise and the emphasis of Edge at the same time is expected as future tasks. Then, it was tried to apply the Kalmann filtering to inverse halftoning. In the actual experiment, the effectiveness of the application of the Kalmann filtering to inverse halftoning comparing it with the technique so far was shown.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.684-688
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• 2009

In this paper, it proposes the technique to restore from a binary image in the color image. The color image is composed of three element images of red, green and blue. Therefore, the color image is first divided into a red, green, and blue element, and the Inverse Halftoning[2]$\sim$[4] is processed to each element images. Finally, each element images is collectively displayed. In that case, the Kalman filter was applied to the Inverse Halftoning for the restoration accuracy improvement of the image. As a result, it was possible to restore it in the color image as well as the time of a monochrome image. Moreover, the result that the restoration accuracy had improved even when which combining with the technique by using the Kalman filter for the Inverse Halftoning so far came out.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.308-319
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• 1999

In this paper we propose a new color inverse halftoning for color prints halftoned by clustered-dot. The proposed method divide channel image into blocks and then extract moire region according to its strength. To get more natural continuous tone image in human vision, the proposed method smooths the extracted moire region in proportion to moire strength. It can also preserve the significant edges well by considering edge information of color halftone image in the process of inverse halftoning. Experimental results show that the proposed method can make more improved inverse halftoning. Experimental results show that the proposed method can make more improved inverse halftoning image than the results of previous works. It could be applied to field of multimedia application, such as digital library construction, color print image compression and multimedia authoring.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.183-193
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• 1998

Color inverse halftoning is the transformation of a color-halftone image to a continuous-tone color image that is more natural in human vision. In this paper, we propose a new smoothing mask that can remove halftone patterns in channel effectively and we apply it to color inverse halftoning. The proposed smoothing mask can make channel images more smooth and natural in human vision than traditional ones. Its characteristic can be adapted automatically according to the various color halftone images. We analyze the result images in various aspects through experiments. Experimental results show that the mask is useful for color inverse halftoning. It can be applied to field of multimedia application, such as desktop publishing, color facsimile and digital library construction.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.12a
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• pp.81-84
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• 2000

Digital Halftoning convert a continuous-tone images to a binary images. Inverse halftoning addresses the problem of recovering a continuous image from a halftoned binary image. Simple low pass filtering can remove the high frequency noise but it also removes the edge information. Thus the edge information should be separated from the halftoning noise. As a result, the edge of result image is blurring. This paper present that we obtain continuous-tone-image which using Anisotropic diffusion filter. To reduce noise without blurring the edges of reconstructed image use edge map. The experimental results show that proposed method gives a higher PSNR and better subjective quality than conventional methods. As a result, the edge information of reconstructed image reduce blurring.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.162-168
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• 2008

A look-up table based vector adaptive filter is proposed in color inverse halftoning. Inverse halftoning converts halftone image into a continuous-tone image. The templates and training images are required in the process of look-up table based methods, which can be obtained from distributed patterns in the sample halftone images and their original images. Although the look-up table based methods usually are faster and show better performances in PSNR than other methods do, they show wide range of qualities depending on how they treat nonexisting patterns in the look-up table. In this paper, a vector adaptive filter is proposed to compensate for these nonexisting patterns, which achieves better quality owing to the contributed informations about hue, saturation, and intensity of surrounding pixels. The experimental results showed that the proposed method resulted in higher PSNR than that of conventional Best Linear Estimation method. The bigger the size of the template in the look-up table becomes, the more outstanding quality in the proposed method can be obtained.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.1C
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• pp.72-80
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• 2009

Look-up table based inverse halftoning from the digital color halftone image is proposed in this paper, which uses vector adaptive filter for the nonexisting patterns in the table. Halftone image is obtained from a continuous -tone image, which can be restored into continuous one from the digital binary image by way of inverse halftoning method. Look-up table based method usually processes fast and has even performances over the various halftoning. The numbers of pixels in the pattern of table and the method how to define the table elements for each R, G, B channels can effect largely for its performance. The proposed method uses 16 pixels in the table considering the diversity of the expressions from their patterns and with memory size as well. This also proposed how to combine R, G, B channels into one. Experimental results showed the better performance in the expression of colors, better color restoration and the short processing time compared with the conventional ones.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.148-153
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• 1998

칼라 역 해프토닝(Color inverse halftoning)은 해프토닝 칼라 영상을 시각적으로 보다 자연스러운 연속계조 칼라영상으로 변환해 주는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는, 분리된 각 칼라 채널 영상에서 나타나는 해프톤 셀 패턴을 효과적으로 제거할 수 있는 새로운 평활화 마스크를 제안하고, 이를 칼라역 해프토닝에 활용하였다. 제안한 평활화 마스크는 기존의 평활화 마스크가 잘 제거하지 못했던 해프톤, 셀 패턴을 시각적으로 보다 자연스럽게 평활해 줄 수 있으며, 마스크의 특성을 평활화하고자 하는 채널 영상에 적합하게 조정할 수 있도록 설계하였다. 실험을 통해, 평활화된 채널 영상과 그 스펙트럼을 비교 분석함으로써 제안한 방법의 유용성을 확인하였다. 이 방법은 전자 출판, 칼라 팩스, 해프톤 영상의 압축 등의 분야에 활용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.260-265
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• 1998

칼라 역 헤프토닝(Color inverse halftoning)은 헤프토닝된 칼라 영상을 시각적으로 보다 자연스러운 연속계조 영상으로 변환해 주는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는, 칼라 채널 영상에서 나타나는 모아레 페턴을 효과적으로 제거하면서 경계를 보존할 수 있는 적응적 평활화(adaptive smoothin) 방법을 제안하였다. 적응적 평활화 방법은 해프톤 영상을 블록으로 나눈 후, 각 블록에서의 모아레 패턴이 존재하는 정도를 나타내는 모아레 가중치 값을 계산하고, 이 값에 다라 평활화 정도를 조절한다. 실험을 통해 제안한 방법이 경계를 효과적으로 보존하면서도 모아레 패턴을 효과적으로 제거할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 제안한 방법은 전자 출판, 칼라 팩스, 해프톤 영상의 압축, 디지털 도서관 구축 등과 간은 멀티미디어 응용 분야에서 유용하게 활용할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.263-271
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new smoothing method for removing moire patterns using analysis of halftone patterns interference. The proposed method can determine a strength of moire patterns by using gray values of pixels and the size of smoothing mask for moire region is adjusted adaptively according to the strength of moire patterns. Therefore it can remove moire patterns effectively and preserve meaningful high frequencies well, such as edges and textures. The proposed method only refer to predefined lookup table to determine the strength of moire patterns, so it is more efficient than a previous work based on FFT of subblock. It could be applied to field of various multimedia applications that deal with color prints.