Image Halftoning with Turing Patterns

Atsushi Nomura

2012

Abstract

This paper presents an image halftoning algorithm with a reaction-diffusion system in which periodic patterns called Turing patterns autonomously emerge. Image halftoning refers to conversion of a gray level image to a binary image so that the human visual system can perceive the original gray level image from the converted binary one. The reaction-diffusion system has activator and inhibitor distributions, and creates the Turing type periodic patterns in the distributions from an initial noisy distributions under the condition of long-range inhibition. Characteristics of the Turing patterns depend on a parameter of the reaction-diffusion system. Thus, by modulating the parameter distribution according to an image brightness distribution, the proposed algorithm creates Turing patterns of which characteristics distribute spatially; the human visual system can perceive distribution of the Turing patterns as the original image. Application of the proposed algorithm to a test image demonstrates its qualitative performance and convergence.

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Nomura A. (2012). Image Halftoning with Turing Patterns . In Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-33-4, pages 286-289. DOI: 10.5220/0004149202860289


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@conference{ecta12,
author={Atsushi Nomura},
title={Image Halftoning with Turing Patterns},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={286-289},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004149202860289},
isbn={978-989-8565-33-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2012)
TI - Image Halftoning with Turing Patterns
SN - 978-989-8565-33-4
AU - Nomura A.
PY - 2012
SP - 286
EP - 289
DO - 10.5220/0004149202860289