Fast Inverse Halftoning Package

Niranjan Damera-Venkata, Thomas D. Kite, and Brian L. Evans have developed two fast inverse halftoning algorithms and implemented them in C:

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The first is reported in [2] below. The second is reported in [1,3] below.

  1. T. D. Kite, N. Damera-Venkata, B. L. Evans, and A. C. Bovik, "A High Quality, Fast Inverse Halftoning Algorithm for Error Diffused Halftones", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Oct. 4-7, 1998, Chicago, IL, vol. 2, pp. 59-63.

  2. N. Damera-Venkata, T. D. Kite, M. Venkataraman, and B. L. Evans, "Fast Blind Inverse Halftoning", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Oct. 4-7, 1998, Chicago, IL, vol. 2, pp. 64-68.

  3. T. D. Kite, N. Damera-Venkata, B. L. Evans, and A. C. Bovik, ``A Fast, High-Quality Inverse Halftoning Algorithm for Error Diffused Halftones'', IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 1583-1592, Sep. 2000.

We optimized the choice of the two free parameters in [2] by using the visual quality model in


Last Updated 12/13/23.