Proc. IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, May 23-25, 2010, Austin, Texas USA, invited paper.

Flicker Assessment of Low-to-Medium Frame-rate Binary Video Halftones

Hamood-ur Rehman and Brian L. Evans

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering Science Building, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA
rehman@mail.utexas.edu - bevans@ece.utexas.edu

Paper Draft - Slides

Image Halftoning Research at UT Austin

Abstract

Video display on devices with limited bit-depth capabilities requires conversion of the original (continuoustone) video having a higher bit-depth to one having a lower bit-depth. Video halftoning refers to a process that attempts to perform this conversion such that the resulting halftone video is perceptually similar to the continuous-tone video. This quantization process, however, results in artifacts. A video halftoning algorithm can be assessed by quantifying the artifacts introduced by it. In this paper, we discuss an approach to assess flicker, a typical temporal artifact, in low-to-medium frame-rate binary video halftones produced from grayscale continuous-tone videos.


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