Handbook of Image and Video Processing, 2nd Edition

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Image Quantization, Halftoning, and Printing

Ping Wah Wong,     IDzap, LLC

1 Introduction and Printing Technologies

2 Scalar Quantization

2.1 Quantization Basics

2.2 Optimum Quantization

2.3 Distortion Criteria and Image Quantization

3 Halftoning

3.1 Ordered Dithering

3.2 Error Diffusion

3.3 Optimization Halftoning Techniques

3.4 Halftoning and Compression

4 Color Quantization

4.1 Color Palette Design

4.2 Error Diffusion Approach

5 Halftone Watermarking and Embedding.

6 Conclusion

References

1 Introduction and Printing Technologies

The rapidly decreasing cost and increasing power of modern day computing devices have contributed to the prevalent use of digital images in recent years. Image processing systems that have found applications ...