5. Halftoning Newspaper photographs simulate a greyscale, despite the fact that they have been printed using only black ink. A newspaper picture is, in.

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5. Halftoning Newspaper photographs simulate a greyscale, despite the fact that they have been printed using only black ink. A newspaper picture is, in fact, made up of a pattern of tiny black dots of varying size. The human visual system has a tendency to average brightness over small areas, so the black dots and their white background merge and are perceived as an intermediate shade of grey.

The process of generating a binary pattern of black and white dots from an image is termed halftoning. In traditional newspaper and magazine production, this process is carried out photographically by projection of a transparency through a 'halftone screen' onto film. The screen is a glass plate with a grid etched into it. Different screens can be used to control the size and shape of the dots in the halftoned image.

A fine grid, with a 'screen frequency' of 200 ‑ 300 lines per inch, gives the image quality necessary for magazine production. A screen frequency of 85 lines per inch is deemed acceptable for newspapers.

5.1 Patterning A simple digital halftoning technique known as patterning involves replacing each pixel by a pattern taken from a 'binary font'. Figure 5. 1 shows such a font, made up of ten 3 x 3 matrices of pixels. This font can be used to print an image consisting of ten grey levels.

Fig A 3 x 3 binary font for printing a greyscale.

A pixel with a grey level of 0 is replaced by a matrix containing no white pixels; a pixel with a grey level of 1 is replaced by a matrix containing a single white pixel; and so on. Note that, since we are replacing each pixel by a 3 x 3 block of pixels, both the width and the height of the image increase by a factor of 3. Figure 5. 2 shows an example of halftoning using the binary font depicted in Figure 5. 1.

Fig.5.2 Halftoning with a binary font. (a) 8-bit image (b) halftoned image

5.2 Dithering Another technique for digital halftoning is dithering. Dithering can be accomplished by thresholding the image against a dither matrix. The first two dither matrices, rescaled for application to 8 ‑ bit images, are

The elements of a dither matrix are thresholds. The matrix is laid like a tile over the entire image and each pixel value is compared with the corresponding threshold from the matrix. The pixel becomes white if its value exceeds the threshold or black otherwise. This approach produces an output image with the same dimensions as the input image, but with less detail visible.

Algorithm to halftone an image using a dither matrix. for all x & y do if f(x,y) > m(x,y) then g(x,y) = white else g(x,y) = black end if End for

Fig.5.3. Halftoning with dither matrices. (a) Input image. (b) Halftoned image using D 1. (c) Halftoned image using D 2