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Ink Drop Displacement Model-Based Direct Binary Search

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Yafei Mao *
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Utpal Sarkar
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Isabel Borrell
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Lluis Abello
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Jan P. Allebach
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2023.3283924delete
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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 that exhibit dot displacement errors. The tabular approach in the literature predicts the gray value of a printed pixel based on the halftone pattern in some neighborhood of that pixel. However, memory retrieval time and the complexity of memory requirements hamper its feasibility in printers that have a very large number of nozzles and produce ink drops that affect a large neighborhood. To avoid this problem, our IDD model embodies dot displacements by moving each perceived ink drop in the image from its nominal location to its actual location, rather than manipulating the average gray values. This enables DBS to directly compute the appearance of the final printout without retrieving values from a table. In so doing, the memory issue is eliminated and the computation efficiency is enhanced. The deterministic cost function of DBS is replaced by the expectation over the ensemble of the displacements for the proposed model such that the statistical behavior of the ink drops is accounted for. Experimental results show significant improvement in the quality of the printed image over the original DBS. Besides, the image quality obtained by the proposed approach appears to be slightly better than that obtained by the tabular approach.
Keywords:
Printers
Computational modeling
Ink
Printing
Satellite broadcasting
Analytical models
Image quality
Halftoning
direct binary search
Index Terms
inkjet
model-based

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