Speaking of which, are there any good ways to undither images? Things like GIMP FFT are not perfectly reversible.
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.
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:
It's a somewhat active inverse problems research subfield https://github.com/MenghanXia/ReversibleHalftoning