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A GPU Implementation of Clipping-Free Halftoning Using the Direct Binary Search

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Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2014)

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Halftoning is an important process to convert a gray scale image into a binary image with black and white pixels. The clipping-free DBS (Direct Binary Search)-based halftoning is one of the halftoning methods that can generate high quality binary images. However, considering the computing time, it is not realistic for most applications such as printing purpose. The main contribution of this paper is to show a new GPU implementation for the clipping-free DBS-based halftoning. We have considered programming issues of the GPU architecture to implement the method on the GPU. The experimental result shows that our GPU implementation on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti for a 4096×3072 gray scale image runs in 7.240 seconds, while the CPU implementation runs in 346.6 seconds. Thus, our GPU implementation attains a speed-up factor of 47.82.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama 1-4-1, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan

    Hiroaki Koge, Yasuaki Ito & Koji Nakano

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Koge, H., Ito, Y., Nakano, K. (2014). A GPU Implementation of Clipping-Free Halftoning Using the Direct Binary Search. In: Sun, Xh., et al. Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. ICA3PP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8630. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11197-1_5

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