Data compression of scanned halftone images

A New Inverse Halftoning Method Using Reversible Data Hiding for Halftone Images

A new inverse halftoning algorithm based on reversible data hiding techniques for halftone images is proposed in this paper. The proposed scheme has the advantages of two commonly used methods, the lookup table (LUT) and Gaussian filtering methods. We embed a part of important LUT templates into a halftone image and restore the lossless image after these templates have been extracted. Then a hy...

Algorithms for coding scanned halftone pictures

A method of coding scanned documents containing halftone pictures, e.g. newspapers and magazines, for transmission purposes in prepress is proposed. The halftone screen is estimated and the grey value of each dot is found, thus giving a compact description. At the receiver the picture is re-screened. A new data structure and related algorithms for handling the digital screen without restriction...

A Review on Scanned color image improvement using image descreening

To print continuous tone images, Electrophotographic (EP) printer uses halftoning technique. Image halftoning prints the image as matrix of dots which are halftone patterns those are hardly perceived by human eyes. So scanned images obtained from such hard printed copies are normally affected by screen like artifacts and moiré patterns. Scanned color Image improvement using Image descreening te...

Compressible halftoning

We present a technique for converting continuous gray-scale images to halftone (black and white) images that lend themselves to lossless data compression with compression factor of three or better. Our method involves using novel halftone mask structures which consist of non-repeated threshold values. We have versions of both dispersed-dot and clustered-dot masks, which produce acceptable image...

Reconstruction from Scanned Halftone Images