Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2002, Volume 2461/2002, 399-409, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45749-6_37

Non-independent Randomized Rounding and an Application to Digital Halftoning

Benjamin Doerr and Henning Schnieder

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Abstract

We investigate the problem to round a given [0]
Of a broader interest might be our rounding scheme, which is a modification of randomized rounding. Instead of independently rounding the variables (expected error 0.82944 per box in the worst case), we impose a number of suitable dependencies.
Experimental results show that roundings obtained by our approach look much less grainy than by independent randomized rounding, and only slightly more grainy than by error diffusion. On the other hand, the latter algorithm (like all known deterministic algorithms) tends to produce unwanted structures, a problem that randomized algorithms like ours are unlikely to encounter.

Keywords  Randomized rounding - discrepancy - digital halftoning

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