A Computational Approach to Edge Detection
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A fast algorithm for local minimum and maximum filters on rectangular and octagonal kernels
Pattern Recognition Letters
Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
An Introduction to Digital Image Processing
An Introduction to Digital Image Processing
Adaptive degraded document image binarization
Pattern Recognition
An Objective Evaluation Methodology for Document Image Binarization Techniques
DAS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The Eighth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems
A Modified Adaptive Logical Level Binarization Technique for Historical Document Images
ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Binarization of historical document images using the local maximum and minimum
DAS '10 Proceedings of the 9th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems
Document image binarization using background estimation and stroke edges
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
H-DIBCO 2010 - Handwritten Document Image Binarization Competition
ICFHR '10 Proceedings of the 2010 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
DIBCO 2009: document image binarization contest
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition - Special Issue on Performance Evaluation
ICDAR 2011 Document Image Binarization Contest (DIBCO 2011)
ICDAR '11 Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
A Laplacian Energy for Document Binarization
ICDAR '11 Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Combination of Document Image Binarization Techniques
ICDAR '11 Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
New Binarization Approach Based on Text Block Extraction
ICDAR '11 Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Binarization of degraded document image based on feature space partitioning and classification
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
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There are many challenges addressed in handwritten document image binarization, such as faint characters, bleed-through and large background ink stains. Usually, binarization methods cannot deal with all the degradation types effectively. Motivated by the low detection rate of faint characters in binarization of handwritten document images, a combination of a global and a local adaptive binarization method at connected component level is proposed that aims in an improved overall performance. Initially, background estimation is applied along with image normalization based on background compensation. Afterwards, global binarization is performed on the normalized image. In the binarized image very small components are discarded and representative characteristics of a document image such as the stroke width and the contrast are computed. Furthermore, local adaptive binarization is performed on the normalized image taking into account the aforementioned characteristics. Finally, the two binarization outputs are combined at connected component level. Our method achieves top performance after extensive testing on the DIBCO (Document Image Binarization Contest) series datasets which include a variety of degraded handwritten document images.