Print Defect Detection and Quality Assessment

A collection of print defect detection and quality assessment papers with code (constantly updating, welcome to contribute!)

By Xiaoyu Xiang, EISL, Purdue University (Don't hesistate to contact me if you have any suggestions: xiang43@purdue.edu).

Defects Detection

General Analysis

• Onome Augustine Ugbeme, Eli Saber, Wencheng Wu, An automated defect classification algorithm for printed documents, ICIS 2006, [Paper]

• Kartheek Chandu, Eli Saber, and Wencheng Wu, A Mutual Information Based Automatic Registration and Analysis Algorithm for Defect Identification in Printed Documents, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing(ICIP) 2007, [Paper]

Local Defects

• Jianyu Wang, Terry Nelson, Renee Jessome, Steve Astling, Eric Maggard, Mark Shaw, Jan P Allebach, Local defect detection and print quality assessment, Electronic Imaging, 2016, [Paper]

• Xiaoyu Xiang, Renee Jessome, Eric Maggard, Yousun Bang, Minki Cho, Jan Allebach, Blockwise Based Detection of Local Defects, Electronic Imaging, 2019, [Paper]

Streaks

• Wencheng Wu, R. Victor Klassen, Banding and streak detection using customer documents, [US Patent]

• Hector Santos Rosario, Eli Saber, Wencheng Wu, Kartheek Chandu, Streak detection in mottled and noisy images , Electronic Imaging 2007, [Paper]

• N.G. Shankar, N. Ravi, Z.W. Zhong, A real-time print-defect detection system for web offset printing, Measurement 2009, [Paper]

• Daulet Kenzhebalin, Xing Liu, Ni Yan, Peter Bauer, Jerry Wagner, Jan Allebach, Detection of streaks caused by dust in the sheetfed scanners, Electronic Imaging, 2017. [Paper]

• Daulet Kenzhebalin, Ni Yan, Peter Bauer, Jerry Wagner, Jan Allebach, Recent advances in detection and healing of streaks caused by dust in a sheetfed scanner, Electronic Imaging, 2018. [Paper]

Banding

• Meera Sampath, Ronald M. Rockwell, D. Rene Rasmussen, Ashok V. Godambe, Eric Jackson, Raj Minhas, Automated banding defect analysis and repair for document processing systems, [US Patent]

• Bang Yousun, Pizlo Zygmunt, Allebach Jan P., Burningham Norman, Discrimination Based Banding Assessment, International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies 2003, [Paper]

• Osman Arslan; Zygmunt Pizlo; Jan P. Allebach, Softcopy banding visibility assessment, Electronic Imaging 2005, [Paper]

• Nathir A. Rawashdeh, Il-Won Shin, Kevin D. Donohue, Shaun Love, Printer banding estimation using the generalized spectrum, Electronic Imaging 2006, [Paper]

• Peter Paul, Systems and methods to measure banding print defects, [US Patent]

• Peter Paul, Sahand Rabbani, Banding profile estimator using multiple sampling intervals, [US Patent]

• Wencheng Wu, R. Victor Klassen, Banding and streak detection using customer documents, [US Patent]

• Ahmed H. Eid, Brian E. Cooper, Edward E. Rippetoe, Characterization of mottle and low-frequency print defects, Electronic Imaging 2008, [Paper]

• Ahmed H. Eid, Mohamed N. Ahmed, Brian E. Cooper, Edward E. Rippetoe, Characterization of Electrophotographic Print Artifacts: Banding, Jitter, and Ghosting, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2011, [Paper]

• Beilei XuWencheng Wu, Banding defect detection in digital imaging systems, [US Patent]

• Jia Zhang, Stephen Astling, Renee Jessome, Eric Maggard, Terry Nelson, Mark Shaw, Jan P Allebach, Assessment of presence of isolated periodic and aperiodic bands in laser electrophotographic printer output, Electronic Imaging, 2013, [Paper]

• Jia Zhang, Jan P Allebach, Estimation of repetitive interval of periodic bands in laser electrophotographic printer output, Electronic Imaging, 2015, [Paper]

Fading

• Yanling Ju, Eric Maggard, Renee Jessome, Jan Allebach， Autonomous detection of text fade point with color laser printers， Electronic Imaging, 2015, [Paper]

• Ni Yan, Eric Maggard, Roberta Fothergill, Renee J Jessome, Jan P Allebach, Autonomous detection of ISO fade point with color laser printers, Electronic Imaging, 2015, [Paper]

• Zuguang Xiao, Shaoyuan Xu, Eric Maggard, Katie Morse, Mark Shaw, Jan Allebach, Detection of Color Fading in Printed Customer Content, Electronic Imaging, 2018. [Paper]

Ghosting

• Ahmed H. Eid, Brian E. Cooper, Mohamed N. Ahmed, Characterization of Ghosting Defects in Electrophotographic Printers, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing(ICIP) 2007, [Paper]

• Ahmed H. Eid, Mohamed N. Ahmed, Brian E. Cooper, Edward E. Rippetoe, Characterization of Electrophotographic Print Artifacts: Banding, Jitter, and Ghosting, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2011, [Paper]

• Xiaochen Jing, Steve Astling, Renee Jessome, Eric Maggard, Terry Nelson, Mark Shaw, Jan P Allebach, NIP & Digital Fabrication Conference 2015, [Paper]

Large-area uniformity

• Minh Q Nguyen, Renee Jessome, Steve Astling, Eric Maggard, Terry Nelson, Mark Shaw, Jan P Allebach, Perceptual metrics and visualization tools for evaluation of page uniformity, Electronic Imaging 2014, [Paper]

• Minh Q Nguyen, Jan P Allebach, Controlling misses and false alarms in a machine learning framework for predicting uniformity of printed pages, Electronic Imaging 2015, [Paper]

• Minh Q Nguyen, Jan P Allebach, Feature ranking and selection used in a machine learning framework for predicting uniformity of printed pages, Electronic Imaging 2017, [Paper]

Quality Assessment

• Peter Nussbaum, Colour measurement and print quality assessment in a colour managed printing workflow, 2010, [PhD Thesis]

• Marius Pedersen, Nicolas Bonnier, Jon Y. Hardeberg, Fritz Albregtsen, Image quality metrics for the evaluation of print quality , Electronic Imaging 2011, [Paper]

• Pedersen Marius, Bonnier Nicolas, Hardeberg Jon Y., Albregtsen Fritz, Estimating Print Quality Attributes by Image Quality Metrics, 18th Color and Imaging Conference Final Program and Proceedings 2010, [Paper]

• A.Verikasa, J. Lundström, M. Bacauskieneb, A. Gelzinisb, Advances in computational intelligence-based print quality assessment and control in offset colour printing, Expert Systems with Applications 2011, [Paper]

• Maria V Ortiz Segovia, Nicolas Bonnier, Jan P Allebach, Print quality analysis for ink-saving algorithms, Electronic Imaging 2012, [Paper]

• Xing Liu, Gary Overall, Travis Riggs, Rebecca Silveston-Keith, Julie Whitney, George Chiu, Jan Allebach, Wavelet-based figure of merit for macro-uniformity, Electronic Imaging 2013, [Paper]

• Weibao Wang, Gary Overall, Travis Riggs, Rebecca Silveston-Keith, Julie Whitney, George Chiu, Jan P Allebach, Figure of merit for macrouniformity based on image quality ruler evaluation and machine learning framework, Electronic Imaging, 2013, [Paper]

• Xiaochen Jing, Steve Astling, Renee Jessome, Eric Maggard, Terry Nelson, Mark Shaw, Jan P Allebach, A general approach for assessment of print quality, Electronic Imaging, 2013, [Paper]

• Puneet Goyal, Jan P Allebach, Print quality assessment for stochastic clustered-dot halftones using compactness measures, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), [Paper]

• Zuguang Xiao, Minh Nguyen, Eric Maggard, Mark Shaw, Jan Allebach, Amy Reibman, Real-Time Print Quality Diagnostics, Electronic Imaging, 2017, [Paper]

• Jordi Sender BeletaM.Isabel Borrell Bayona, Print quality evaluation, [US Patent]