QR-RLS algorithm for error diffusion of color images

Gozde Bozkurt Unal; Yasemin C. Yardimci; Orhan Arikan; Enis A. Cetin

doi:10.1117/1.1313749

1 November 2000 QR-RLS algorithm for error diffusion of color images

Gozde Bozkurt Unal, Yasemin C. Yardimci, Orhan Arikan, Enis A. Cetin

Optical Engineering, Vol. 39, Issue 11, (November 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1313749

Printing color images on color printers and displaying them on computer monitors requires a significant reduction of physically distinct colors, which causes degradation in image quality. An efficient method to improve the display quality of a quantized image is error diffusion, which works by distributing the previous quantization errors to neighboring pixels, exploiting the eye's averaging of colors in the neighborhood of the point of interest. This creates the illusion of more colors. A new error diffusion method is presented in which the adaptive recursive least- squares (RLS) algorithm is used. This algorithm provides local optimization of the error diffusion filter along with smoothing of the filter coefficients in a neighborhood. To improve the performance, a diagonal scan is used in processing the image.

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Gozde Bozkurt Unal, Yasemin C. Yardimci, Orhan Arikan, and Enis A. Cetin "QR-RLS algorithm for error diffusion of color images," Optical Engineering 39(11), (1 November 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1313749

Published: 1 November 2000

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