DIBCO 2009 is the first International Document Image Binarization Contest organized in the
context of ICDAR 2009 conference. The general objective of the contest is to identify current …

Document image binarization is of great importance in the document image analysis and
recognition pipeline since it affects further stages of the recognition process. The evaluation …

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 …

This paper proposes a document image binarization method, which is especially robust to
the images degraded by uneven light condition, such as the camera captured document …

We propose an algorithm for the binarization of document images degraded by uneven light
distribution, based on the Markov Random Field modeling with Maximum A Posteriori …

This paper proposes a novel binarization algorithm for converting the grayscale and color
images into black and white images. The binarization is one of the very important process in …

With the extensive application of cryptography technologies in our lives, cryptography
course has been paid more attention to in many universities. The contents of cryptography …

In this paper, a new binarization algorithm for degraded document images is proposed. The
method is based on positive and negative pixel energies using the Laplacian of an image …

Various types of degradations such as uneven illumination, shadows, low contrast, smears
and heavy noise densities often make thresholding of the document images a difficult job. In …

In this article, our goal is to describe mathematically and experimentally the gray-intensity
distributions of the fore-and background of handwritten historical documents. We propose a …