Modern Digital Halftoning / Edition 2

by Daniel L. Lau, Gonzalo R. Arce

Overview

The late 1980s, revolutionary advances in digital halftoning enabled inkjet printers to achieve much higher image fidelity. The rapid rate of progress has resulted in numerous breakthroughs scattered throughout the literature, rendering old technologies obsolete and renewing the need for a centralized source on the current state of the art. Entirely revised and updated, Modern Digital Halftoning, Second Edition provides an integrated and up-to-date treatment of stochastic halftoning and digital printing.

Using full-color illustrations to enhance the text, this edition incorporates new topics as well as updated models, algorithms, and methods used to construct and improve the quality of green-noise, blue-noise, and multitone images. Following a review of various halftoning techniques, this edition now covers amplitude modulated dither arrays, adapting to human visual models, direct binary search, and handling stochastic moiré problems. It also presents a new chapter on lenticular printing, a means for printing color holographic images. Accompanying downloadable resources contain MATLAB^® software files and illustrated examples employing algorithms, statistics, and other key concepts from the book.

Documenting the development of digital printing since the first edition, Modern Digital Halftoning, Second Edition offers a well-rounded and accurate perspective on the technological capabilities of digital printing and provides all the necessary tools for continuing research in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420047530
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/24/2008
Series:	Signal Processing and Communications , #1
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	686
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Daniel L. Lau, Gonzalo R. Arce

Table of Contents

Introduction. Dot shape. Stochastic halftone analysis. Halftone visibility. Blue-noise dithering. Blue-noise dither arrays. Direct binary search. Hexagonal grid halftoning. Printers: distortions and models. Green-noise dithering. Green-noise masks. Color printing. Stochastic moiré. Lenticular halftoning. Conclusions. Bibliography. List of figures. Index.

Editorial Reviews

This book/CD-ROM package offers a broad review of digital halftoning. It develops new standards for halftone robustness as well as visibility, and examines a new stochastic halftoning model, green- noise, and its desirable attributes in printing. Introduces several metrics for the study of binary patterns, presenting both the ideal spatial and ideal spectral characteristics of green-noise. Examines techniques for producing green-noise and studies them in terms of their visual pleasantness and the computational complexity. Also looks at the application of green-noise to color halftoning environments. Includes color and b&w photos. The CD-ROM contains algorithms and statistics with color examples, and a guide to running software on MATLAB for converting digital images to halftones. Lau is a DSP engineer and a member of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Arce is professor and chair for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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