Historical document image binarization: A review

C Tensmeyer, T Martinez - SN Computer Science, 2020 - Springer
This review provides a comprehensive view of the field of historical document image
binarization with a focus on the contributions made in the last decade. After the introduction …

ICDAR 2013 document image binarization contest (DIBCO 2013)

I Pratikakis, B Gatos… - 2013 12th International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DIBCO 2013 is the international Document Image Binarization Contest organized in the
context of ICDAR 2013 conference. The general objective of the contest is to identify current …

ICFHR 2012 competition on handwritten document image binarization (H-DIBCO 2012)

I Pratikakis, B Gatos… - … international conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
H-DIBCO 2012 is the International Document Image Binarization Competition which is
dedicated to handwritten document images organized in conjunction with ICFHR 2012 …

Document image binarization using local features and Gaussian mixture modeling

N Mitianoudis, N Papamarkos - Image and Vision Computing, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we address the document image binarization problem with a three-stage
procedure. First, possible stains and general document background information are …

A new binarization method for non-uniform illuminated document images

J Wen, S Li, J Sun - Pattern recognition, 2013 - Elsevier
An original binarization method for document images acquired under non-uniform
illumination conditions was proposed in this paper. The Curvelet transform and Otsu's …

Adaptive binarization of severely degraded and non-uniformly illuminated documents

BM Singh, R Sharma, D Ghosh, A Mittal - International Journal on …, 2014 - Springer
This paper presents a new adaptive binarization method for the degraded document
images. Variable background, non-uniform illumination, and blur caused by humidity are the …

An optimization for binarization methods by removing binary artifacts

MA Ramírez-Ortegón, V Märgner, E Cuevas… - Pattern Recognition …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this article, we introduce a novel technique to remove binary artifacts. Given a gray-
intensity image and its corresponding binary image, our method detects and remove …

A segmentation method using Otsu and fuzzy k-Means for stereovision matching in hemispherical images from forest environments

PJ Herrera, G Pajares, M Guijarro - Applied soft computing, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper we describe a novel pixel-based strategy of segmentation and stereovision
matching for obtaining disparity maps from hemispherical images captured with fish-eye …

A fast adaptive binarization method for complex scene images

J Yang, K Wang, J Li, J Jiao, J Xu - 2012 19th IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel adaptive binarization method based on wavelet filter is proposed in this paper,
which shows comparable performance to other similar methods and processes faster, so …

[PDF][PDF] Binarization of document images using the modified local-global Otsu and Kapur algorithms

P Lech, K Okarma, D Wojnar - Przeglad Elektrotechniczny, 2015 - pe.org.pl
In the paper an algorithm for binarization of grayscale images representing text documents
together with its optimization is presented. In the proposed approach two classical global …