A novel attribute-based framework is proposed to tackle the problem of halftone water- marking in combination of the spatial/transformation domain. The challenge is that the host image is continuous, while the waterma...A novel attribute-based framework is proposed to tackle the problem of halftone water- marking in combination of the spatial/transformation domain. The challenge is that the host image is continuous, while the watermarked halftone is bi-level. To search for a solution, an attribute image is defined as a good connection between the original grayscale image and its halftone image. When the attribute image is used as a watermark carrier, it helps to fred the watermarked halftone efficiently by solving a constrained modified direct binary search problem. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme in comparison with other similar methods maintains high watermark capacity with good image quality, high robustness, processing efficiency and easy decoding. Especially it has a good performance in printing application.展开更多
Digital image halftoning is a widely used technique. However, achieving high fidelity tone reproduction and structural preservation with low computational time cost remains a challenging problem. This paper presents a...Digital image halftoning is a widely used technique. However, achieving high fidelity tone reproduction and structural preservation with low computational time cost remains a challenging problem. This paper presents a highly parallel algorithm to boost real-time application of serial structure-preserving error diffusion. The contrast-aware halftoning approach is one such technique with superior structure preservation, but it offers only a limited opportunity for graphics processing unit(GPU) acceleration. Our method integrates contrast-aware halftoning into a new parallelizable error-diffusion halftoning framework. To eliminate visually disturbing artifacts resulting from parallelization, we propose a novel multiple quantization model and space-filling curve to maintain tone consistency, blue-noise property, and structure consistency. Our GPU implementation on a commodity personal computer achieves a real-time performance for a moderately sized image. We demonstrate the high quality and performance of the proposed approach with a variety of examples, and provide comparisons with state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61100156)the National 12th Five-Year Plan Item of China(513160702)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(JB150317,JB140311,K5051303014)
文摘A novel attribute-based framework is proposed to tackle the problem of halftone water- marking in combination of the spatial/transformation domain. The challenge is that the host image is continuous, while the watermarked halftone is bi-level. To search for a solution, an attribute image is defined as a good connection between the original grayscale image and its halftone image. When the attribute image is used as a watermark carrier, it helps to fred the watermarked halftone efficiently by solving a constrained modified direct binary search problem. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme in comparison with other similar methods maintains high watermark capacity with good image quality, high robustness, processing efficiency and easy decoding. Especially it has a good performance in printing application.
基金Project supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program of China(No.2012BAH35B03)the National High-Tech R&D Program of China(No.2012AA12090)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61232012 and 81172124)the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation(No.LY13F020002)
文摘Digital image halftoning is a widely used technique. However, achieving high fidelity tone reproduction and structural preservation with low computational time cost remains a challenging problem. This paper presents a highly parallel algorithm to boost real-time application of serial structure-preserving error diffusion. The contrast-aware halftoning approach is one such technique with superior structure preservation, but it offers only a limited opportunity for graphics processing unit(GPU) acceleration. Our method integrates contrast-aware halftoning into a new parallelizable error-diffusion halftoning framework. To eliminate visually disturbing artifacts resulting from parallelization, we propose a novel multiple quantization model and space-filling curve to maintain tone consistency, blue-noise property, and structure consistency. Our GPU implementation on a commodity personal computer achieves a real-time performance for a moderately sized image. We demonstrate the high quality and performance of the proposed approach with a variety of examples, and provide comparisons with state-of-the-art methods.
