Title
Linear interpolation revitalized.
Abstract
We present a simple, original method to improve piecewise-linear interpolation with uniform knots: we shift the sampling knots by a fixed amount, while enforcing the interpolation property. We determine the theoretical optimal shift that maximizes the quality of our shifted linear interpolation. Surprisingly enough, this optimal value is nonzero and close to 1/5. We confirm our theoretical findings by performing several experiments: a cumulative rotation experiment and a zoom experiment. Both show a significant increase of the quality of the shifted method with respect to the standard one. We also observe that, in these results, we get a quality that is similar to that of the computationally more costly "high-quality" cubic convolution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/TIP.2004.826093
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
zoom experiment,optimal value,cubic convolution,linear interpolation,theoretical optimal shift,theoretical finding,interpolation property,cumulative rotation experiment,piecewise-linear interpolation,original method,kernel,cumulant,interpolation,indexing terms,sampling methods,spline function,piecewise linear,algorithms,convolution,feedback,spline,digital filter,digital filters,approximation theory,linear models
Spline (mathematics),Applied mathematics,Spline interpolation,Interpolation,Artificial intelligence,Linear interpolation,Trilinear interpolation,Mathematical optimization,Pattern recognition,Convolution,Bicubic interpolation,Stairstep interpolation,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
5
1057-7149
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
55
2.85
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
T Blu12574259.70
Thevenaz, P.270280.79
Unser, M.33438442.40