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This paper describes a novel adaptive-hierarchical-filtering technique to achieve high-quality image enhancement when the image possesses the artifact of moiré pattern during the reproduction of the image by different computer peripherals such as color copier, or scanners plus printers. Commercial magazine images are halftoned images. Unacceptable noises and moiré distortion may result when halftone images are copied (i.e., scanned and printed). In this paper, we analyze the formation of moiré patterns in the frequency and spatial domain. Based on the analysis, a set of hierarchical filter is developed to suppress the moiré artifacts and enhance the image adaptively. The hierarchical filter consists of a set of variable-length low-pass filters and high-pass filters. The low-pass filters have a nice inheritance of canceling aliased low frequency components (moiré distortion). High- pass filtering is also applied to sharpen image edges. An image classifier is developed to determine that an edge is either a global true edge (for sharpening enhancement) or a local halftone’s micro-structural edge (for LPF for moiré reduction), so that adaptive filter technique can be applied to achieve the smooth transition between sharp edges and smooth halftone regions. Thus, we achieves overall high-quality output images. Experimental results have been shown the effectiveness of the presented technique that works well on wide combinations of above-mentioned 6 factors, which will be explained during the following sections, for high-quality magazine image reproduction.
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Lin, Tn., Shu, J. (2002). Adaptive-Hierarchical-Filtering Technique for Image Enhancement. In: Chen, YC., Chang, LW., Hsu, CT. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing — PCM 2002. PCM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2532. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36228-2_50
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