Spatial sampling effects on scanned 2-D patterns

Jiangying Zhou, Daniel Lopresti, Prateek Sarkar, George Nagy

Abstract

The bitmap obtained by scanning a printed pattern depends on the exact location of the scanning grid relative to the pattern. We consider ideal sampling with a regular lattice of delta functions. the displacement of the lattice relative to the pattern is random and obeys a uniform probability density function defined over a unit cell of the lattice. the resulting random-phase sampling noise affects the edge-pixels of scanned bitmaps. The number of distinct bitmaps and their relative frequencies can be predicted from a mapping of the original pattern boundary to the unit cell (called a modulo-grid-diagram).

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@incollection{zhou:IWVF97
, author = "J. Y. Zhou and D. Lopresti and P. Sarkar and G. Nagy"
, title = "Spatial sampling effects on scanned 2-D patterns"
, booktitle = "Advances in Visual Forms Analysis"
, editor = "C. Arcelli and L. P. Cordella and G. S. di Baja"
, publisher = "World Scientific"
, address = "Singapore"
, year = "1997"
}
Prateek Sarkar
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