title: The error-amended sharp edge (EASE) scheme for image zooming.
abstract: This paper proposes a new interpolation method, called the error-amended sharp edge (EASE) scheme, which is a modified bilinear method. In order to remove/reduce interpolation artifacts such as image blur and the checkerboard effect (ringing), EASE tries to amend the interpolation error by employing the classical interpolation error theorem in an edge-adaptive fashion. EASE is applied for image zooming by both integer and noninteger magnification factors. The new interpolation scheme has proved to result in high-resolution images having clearer and sharper edges than linear interpolation methods, for all synthetic and natural images we have tested. EASE can be implemented with ease; it turns out to be similarly efficient as cubic interpolation schemes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Sejong University, Seoul 143-747, Korea. yjcha@sejong.ac.kr
authors.forename: Youngjoon
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cha
authors.forename: Seongjai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D003196:Computer Graphics; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted