Detection of worms in error diffusion halftoning
Original version
Pedersen, M., Albregtsen, F., & Hardeberg, J. Y. (2009). Detection of worms in error diffusion halftoning. In S. P. Farnand & F. Gaykema (Eds.), Image Quality and System Performance VI, San Jose, CA, USA (pp. 12). Bellingham, Wash.: SPIE. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.805555Abstract
Digital halftoning is used to reproduce a continuous tone image with a printer. One of these halftoning algorithms, error diffusion, suffers from certain artifacts. One of these artifacts is commonly denoted as worms. We propose a simple measure for detection of worm artifacts. The proposed measure is evaluated by a psychophysical experiment, where 4 images were reproduced using 5 different error diffusion algorithms. The results indicate a high correlation between the predicted worms and perceived worms.
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This is the copy of journal's version originally published in Proc. SPIE 7242. Reprinted with permission of SPIE: http://spie.org/x10.xml?WT.svl=tn7