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A group of pixels of a digital image is processed to reduce bleed-through. The processing includes generating an upper bound for each pixel of the group; and taking a weighted average of the upper bound and original pixel intensity for each pixel of the group.
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Processing of a pixel in a digital image includes performing inverse halftoning on the pixel with respect to a local pixel neighborhood; and performing selective sharpening on the inverse halftoned pixel with respect to the local pixel neighborhood.
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A system and method of removing background noise from a digital image of a scanned document is described. The system and method is a reversible background noise removal technique that allows a user to select whether background noise is removed or not. In addition, since the present invention divides the background noise removal operations into a two phase process, the overall efficiency of the system and method are significantly improved.
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Processing of a pixel of a digital image includes mapping intensity of the pixel as a smooth, non-linear continuous function of the intensity and minimum and maximum intensities of a local pixel neighborhood of the pixel.
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A method of deriving from an existing selective image smoothing filter either a corresponding filter for selective image sharpening, or a corresponding filter for both selective image smoothing and selective image sharpening. The selective sharpening filter can be implemented quickly by using implementations of the existing selective smoothing filter and a derived matching non-selective smoothing filter as black boxes and combining their outputs in a simple manner. Alternatively, the derived selective sharpening filter can be implemented by inlining the combination of the implementations of the existing selective smoothing.
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A system and method of image processing for smoothing, denoising, despeckling and sharpening scanned document images which is performed prior to a compression. The scanned image is selectively smoothed by anisotropic diffusion filtering in a single iteration with a 3×3 kernel, which provides denoising, edge-preserving smoothing. The smoothed image data is then selectively sharpened using variable contrast mapping that provides overshoot-free variable-sharpening and despeckling. Image quality is improvides while increasing compressibility of the image.
摘要:
A method of deriving from an existing selective image smoothing filter either a corresponding filter for selective image sharpening, or a corresponding filter for both selective smoothing and selective image sharpening. The selective sharpening filter can be implemented quickly by using implementations of the existing selective smoothing filter and a derived matching non-selective smoothing filter as black boxes and combining their outputs in a simple manner. Alternatively, the derived selective sharpening filter can be implemented by inlining the combination of the implementations of the existing selective smoothing.
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Compression of a digital image is performed by bit-depth truncating a luminance channel of the digital image and performing lossless compression on the bit-depth truncated luminance channel; and performing lossy compression on chrominance channels of the digital image.
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Image sharpening is performed by applying variable contrast stretching to pixels of interest in a digital image. For each pixel of interest, the amount of contrast stretching is a function of minimum and maximum intensity values in a local pixel neighborhood.
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Chromatic bleeding artifacts in a digital image are reduced by modifying chrominance values of at least some pixels in the digital image. The chrominance values are modified according to luminance values and chromatic dynamic range.