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Training-based descreening

Siddiqui et al., 2007

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13348249727704909652
Author
Siddiqui H
Bouman C
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE transactions on image processing

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Conventional halftoning methods employed in electrophotographic printers tend to produce Moireacute artifacts when used for printing images scanned from printed material, such as books and magazines. We present a novel approach for descreening color scanned …
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