Speaking of which, are there any good ways to undither images? Things like GIMP FFT are not perfectly reversible.
It's a somewhat active inverse problems research subfield https://github.com/MenghanXia/ReversibleHalftoning
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Dither loses information, so perfectly reversible might be an unreasonable goal. But I bet you could train or fine-tune a denoiser to do a really good job. This might make a cool paper, if there’s anything at all non-standard or surprising you discover along the way.
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No, although AI gets really close. Dithering represents adding noise to an image and also represents doing a lossy type of compression.
Do you want to undither, or un-half-tone, like the images in TFA?
Unhalftoning is called descreening.
I use this: