Title
Progressive coding of error-diffused bilevel images
Abstract
We propose a new method to compress error-diffused bilevel images with resolution scalability. This method is a combination of inverse halftoning and rehalftoning. For the inverse halftoning, we combine 2 x 2 dots into a single pixel of a resolution-reduced image, where each pixel has a multilevel value of 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. After the inverse halftoning, the resolution-reduced multilevel image is halftoned by using an error diffusion algorithm. Thus, the resolution of the error-diffused bilevel images can be reduced by repetition of the inverse halftoning and rehalftoning processes. After reducing the image size, we encode an error-diffused bilevel image progressively from the lowest resolution image to the highest resolution image. To encode higher resolution images, we use the information in the previously coded lower resolution image. Though the compression ratios of the proposed algorithm are similar to those of progressive Joint Bilevel Image Processing Group (JBIG), the image quality of the resolution-reduced image from the proposed algorithm is much better than that from the progressive JBIG. (C) 2003 SPIE and IST.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1117/1.1525794
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Keywords
Field
DocType
algorithms,computer programming,image quality,image processing,diffusion
Computer vision,Inverse,Pattern recognition,Feature detection (computer vision),Computer science,Image processing,Image quality,Sub-pixel resolution,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,JBIG,Image resolution
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
1
1017-9909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.46
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chul-Soo Lee1405.30
Hyun Wook Park249554.79