Image Scaling

Bilinear image scaling is about the same as　nearest neighbor image scaling except with interpolation. Instead of copying the neighboring pixels (which often results in jaggy image), interpolation technique based on surrounding pixels is used to produce much smoother scaling.
Although bilinear scaling is not exactly complicated, it is a composite algorithm based on other more basic function. As the name might have suggested, the algorithm is a combination of two linear interpolations. It is not mandatory to know what linear interpolation is but doing is not really that bad. I suggest the reader to follow through at least the brief explanation.

Linear Interpolation (a brief explanation)

Linear interpol