NDLI: The Hybrid Screen—Improving the Breed

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Changhyung Lee Allebach, J.P.
Copyright Year	1992
Abstract	The hybrid screen is a halftoning method that generates stochastic dispersed dot textures in highlights and periodic clustered dot textures in midtones. Each tone level is sequentially designed from highlight to midtone by applying an iterative halftoning algorithm such as direct binary search (DBS). By allowing random seeding followed by swap-only DBS in a predefined core region within each microcell, each level can be designed while satisfying the stacking constraint and guaranteeing a smooth transition between levels. This paper describes a complete design process for the hybrid screen, introduces a number of enhancements to the original hybrid screen, and evaluates their impact on print quality. These enhancements include a multilevel screen design based on either extending a bilevel screen or directly generating a multilevel screen on a high resolution grid, and extending the hybrid screen design procedure to color by jointly optimizing the color screens using color DBS. For the multilevel screen, we show that the best choice for the core size critically depends on the bit depth and screen frequency. For the color hybrid screen, we demonstrate a significant improvement in the highlights over halftones generated by independently designed screens.
Sponsorship	IEEE Signal Processing Society
Page Count	16
File Size	3766433
Starting Page	435
Ending Page	450
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10577149
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-02-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Hybrid power systems Satellite broadcasting Stochastic processes Algorithm design and analysis Clustering algorithms Iterative algorithms Microcell networks Stacking Process design Mesh generation multilevel screen Color halftoning digital halftoning direct binary search human visual system model hybrid screen
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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