Marvel: Raster gray-level manga vectorization via primitive-wise deep reinforcement learning

H Su, X Liu, J Niu, J Cui, J Wan, X Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manga is a fashionable Japanese-style comic form that is composed of black-and-white
strokes and is generally displayed as raster images on digital devices. Typical mangas have …

Ink Dot-Oriented Differentiable Optimization for Neural Image Halftoning

H Jiang, B Zhou, Y Mu - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Halftoning is a time-honored printing technique that simulates continuous tones using ink
dots (halftone dots). The resurgence of deep learning has catalyzed the emergence of …

Scale-arbitrary invertible image downscaling

J Xing, W Hu, M Xia, TT Wong - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional social media platforms usually downscale high-resolution (HR) images to
restrict their resolution to a specific size for saving transmission/storage cost, which makes …

Conditional diffusion process for inverse halftoning

H Jiang, Y Mu - Advances in Neural Information Processing …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Inverse halftoning is a technique used to recover realistic images from ancient prints (\textit
{eg}, photographs, newspapers, books). The rise of deep learning has led to the gradual …

Efficient halftoning via deep reinforcement learning

H Jiang, D Xiong, X Jiang, L Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Halftoning aims to reproduce a continuous-tone image with pixels whose intensities are
constrained to two discrete levels. This technique has been deployed on every printer, and …

Ink Drop Displacement Model-Based Direct Binary Search

Y Mao, U Sarkar, I Borrell, L Abello… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel statistical ink drop displacement (IDD) printer model for the direct binary search
(DBS) halftoning algorithm is proposed. It is intended primarily for pagewide inkjet printers …

[PDF][PDF] Mimicking DBS halftoning via a deep learning approach

B Choi, JP Allebach - Electronic Imaging, 2022 - library.imaging.org
In this paper we investigate applying two deep generative models to digital halftoning with
the aim of generating halftones with comparable quality to those generated with the direct …

Halftoning with multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

H Jiang, D Xiong, X Jiang, A Yin… - … Conference on Image …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks have recently succeeded in digital halftoning using vanilla
convolutional layers with high parallelism. However, existing deep methods fail to generate …

Taming reversible halftoning via predictive luminance

CK Lau, M Xia, TT Wong - IEEE Transactions on Visualization …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional halftoning usually drops colors when dithering images with binary dots, which
makes it difficult to recover the original color information. We proposed a novel halftoning …

Point set self-embedding

R Li, X Li, TT Wong, CW Fu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents an innovative method for point set self-embedding, that encodes the
structural information of a dense point set into its sparser version in a visual but …