Author Description

Halftoning is an essential step in the process of printing and in displaying images on limited bit-depth devices. Processing these images involves different challenges from those of continuous tone images. Image Processing and Halftones covers the latest advances in the processing of halftone images. The book begins with an introduction to essential signal processing techniques and most the commonly used halftoning algorithms. Several important areas of halftone image processing are considered in detail: inverse halftoning; compression; watermarking; and data hiding. The reader can gain a detailed and comprehensive view of the state-of-the-art techniques in halftoning and an understanding of their increasing application in secure printing, scanning, fax, image pipelines, and image transmission. Image Processing and Halftones includes worked examples throughout the text, allowing the book to be used as a introduction to image processing for halftones by advanced students.