Issue No. 02 - February (1985 vol. 7)
ISSN: 0162-8828
pp: 178-186
Donald E. Troxel , Research Laboratory of Electronics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA 02139.
William F. Schreiber , Research Laboratory of Electronics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA 02139.
ABSTRACT
The transformation of image signals between the continuous domain of the real world and the discrete domain of modern data processing can have a significant effect on quality and efficiency. Analysis based on perceptual rather than mathematical considerations has been carried out. A series of experiments based on the analysis has shown that substantial improvement over usual techniques can be achieved by the use of a cascade of a presharpening filter combined with Gaussian presampling and interpolation filters. The resulting sharpened Gaussian'' filter, although not exactly circularly symmetrical, gives a high degree of isotropy. Each element in the cascade is separable, so that computational efficiency is high. A favorable tradeoff is achieved among sharpness, smoothness, and the effects of aliasing. Subjective testing, in comparison with other commonly used filters, has shown the clear superiority of this filter.
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CITATION
Donald E. Troxel, William F. Schreiber, "Transformation Between Continuous and Discrete Representations of Images: A Perceptual Approach", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol. 7, no. , pp. 178-186, February 1985, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.1985.4767642