From face to natural image: Learning real degradation for blind image super-resolution

X Li, C Chen, X Lin, W Zuo, L Zhang - European Conference on Computer …, 2022 - Springer
How to design proper training pairs is critical for super-resolving real-world low-quality (LQ)
images, which suffers from the difficulties in either acquiring paired ground-truth high-quality …

Deep halftoning with reversible binary pattern

M **a, W Hu, X Liu, TT Wong - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Existing halftoning algorithms usually drop colors and fine details when dithering color
images with binary dot patterns, which makes it extremely difficult to recover the original …

Image companding and inverse halftoning using deep convolutional neural networks

X Hou, G Qiu - arxiv preprint arxiv:1707.00116, 2017 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we introduce deep learning technology to tackle two traditional low-level
image processing problems, companding and inverse halftoning. We make two main …

Inverse halftoning methods based on deep learning and their evaluation metrics: A review

M Li, E Zhang, Y Wang, J Duan, C **g - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Inverse halftoning is an ill-posed problem that refers to the problem of restoring continuous-
tone images from their halftone versions. Although much progress has been achieved over …

Deep inverse halftoning via progressively residual learning

M **a, TT Wong - Computer Vision–ACCV 2018: 14th Asian Conference …, 2019 - Springer
Inverse halftoning as a classic problem has been investigated in the last two decades,
however, it is still a challenge to recover the continuous version with accurate details from …

Inverse halftoning through structure-aware deep convolutional neural networks

CH Son - Signal Processing, 2020 - Elsevier
The primary issue in inverse halftoning is removing noisy dots on flat areas and restoring
image structures (eg, lines, patterns) on textured areas. Hence, a new structure-aware deep …

Image inverse halftoning and descreening: a review

F Zhang, X Zhang - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019 - Springer
With the development of computer technology and network technology, a large amount of
printed documents are converted to the electronic documents and spread on internet. When …

Sparsity-based inverse halftoning via semi-coupled multi-dictionary learning and structural clustering

Y Zhang, E Zhang, W Chen, Y Chen, J Duan - Engineering Applications of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Inverse halftoning is the restoration of a continuous-tone image from its halftone version,
which is a critical process for halftone transform, digital archive management and high …

An inverse halftoning method for various types of halftone images based on multi-scale generative adversarial network

E Zhang, M Li, Q Zhang, L Wu, L Shao - Engineering Applications of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The inverse halftoning method based on deep neural network has been widely studied in
last few years. However, the existing methods only apply single-size convolution kernel to …

A multistage and multiresolution deep convolutional neural network for inverse halftoning

M Li, E Zhang, L Wu, J Duan - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Inverse halftoning is a technology to restore a continuous-tone image from its halftone
version. Recent works based on deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) have shown …