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 …

A combined approach for the binarization of handwritten document images

K Ntirogiannis, B Gatos, I Pratikakis - Pattern recognition letters, 2014 - Elsevier
There are many challenges addressed in handwritten document image binarization, such as
faint characters, bleed-through and large background ink stains. Usually, binarization …

GiB: A ame Theory nspired inarization Technique for Degraded Document Images

S Bhowmik, R Sarkar, B Das… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Document image binarization classifies each pixel in an input document image as either
foreground or background under the assumption that the document is pseudo binary in …

A non-parametric binarization method based on ensemble of clustering algorithms

SK Bera, S Ghosh, S Bhowmik, R Sarkar… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2021 - Springer
Binarization of document images still attracts the researchers especially when degraded
document images are considered. This is evident from the recent Document Image …

Gabor filter-based texture for ancient degraded document image binarization

A Sehad, Y Chibani, R Hedjam, M Cheriet - Pattern Analysis and …, 2019 - Springer
Binarization of ancient degraded document images is a very important step for their
preservation and digital use. In this paper, a new simple threshold-based method is …

Historical document binarization based on phase information of images

H Ziaei Nafchi, R Farrahi Moghaddam… - Computer Vision-ACCV …, 2013 - Springer
In this paper, phase congruency features are used to develop a binarization method for
degraded documents and manuscripts. Also, Gaussian and median filtering are used in …

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 …

Document preprocessing system-automatic selection of binarization

IB Messaoud, H Amiri, H El Abed… - 2012 10th IAPR …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the reason that historical documents present many degradations, the analysis of such
documents is considered as a big challenge. In this paper we present a system which allows …

A design of a preprocessing framework for large database of historical documents

IB Messaoud, H El Abed, V Märgner… - Proceedings of the 2011 …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
The objective of document preprocessing is to ease the text recognition or the document
indexing processes. The analysis of historical documents seems to be a big challenge …

A multilevel text-line segmentation framework for handwritten historical documents

IB Messaoud, H Amiri, H El Abed… - … on Frontiers in …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Text-line segmentation is considered as a crucial step of document analysis and recognition
systems because its output is considered as the input of recognition systems. Due to the …