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    Parallel Inverse Halftoning by Look-Up Table (LUT) Partitioning

    (2008) Parallel Inverse Halftoning by Look-Up Table (LUT) Partitioning. Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering (AJSE).

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    Abstract

    Look-Up Table (LUT) method for inverse halftoning is computation less, fast, and also yields goods results. It employs a single LUT that is stored in a ROM and contains pre-computed contone (gray level) values for inverse halftone operation. This paper proposes an algorithm that can perform parallel inverse halftone operation by partitioning the single LUT into N smaller Look-Up Tables (s-LUTs). Thereby, upto k (k≤N) pixels can be concurrently fetched from the halftone image, and their contone values can also be fetched concurrently from separate smaller Look-Up Tables (s-LUT). The parallelization increases the speed of inverse halftoning by upto k times while the total entries in all s-LUTs remains equal to the entries in the single LUT of the serial LUT method. Some degradation in image quality is possible due to pixel loss during parallel fetching. This is due to some contone values cannot be fetched in the same cycle because some other contone value is being fetched from the s-LUT. The complete implementation of the algorithm requires two CPLD devices for computational portion, external content addressable memories (CAM) and static RAMs to store s-LUTs.

    Item Type: Article
    Subjects: Computer
    Department: College of Computing and Mathematics > Computer Engineering
    Depositing User: UMAIR FAROOQ SIDDIQI
    Date Deposited: 10 Jul 2008 23:51
    Last Modified: 01 Nov 2019 14:09
    URI: http://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/id/eprint/14947

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