This review provides a comprehensive view of the field of historical document image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 …

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 …

H-DIBCO 2016 is the international Handwritten Document Image Binarization Contest
organized in the context of ICFHR 2016 conference. The general objective of the contest is …

Document image binarization is an important step in the document image analysis and
recognition pipeline. H-DIBCO 2014 is the International Document Image Binarization …

Abstract We present Generalized Histogram Thresholding (GHT), a simple, fast, and
effective technique for histogram-based image thresholding. GHT works by performing …

In this paper, a phase-based binarization model for ancient document images is proposed,
as well as a postprocessing method that can improve any binarization method and a ground …

Document image binarization is one of the critical initial steps for document analysis and
understanding. Previous work mostly focused on exploiting hand-crafted features to build …

For the purpose of facilitating benchmark contributions for binarization methods, a new fast
ground truthing approach, called the PhaseGT, is proposed. This approach is used for …

The concept of Image Phase Congruency (IPC) is deeply rooted in the way the human visual
system interprets and processes spatial frequency information. It plays an important role in …

Scanned images of historical documents often suffer from bleed-through, which refers to the
ink on one side seeping through the paper and appearing on the other side. In this paper, a …