Adaptive degraded document image binarization
Pattern RecognitionPublished 17 November 2005
Basilis Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros Perantonis
Citations585
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SJR score2.06
SNIP2.67
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The proposed method does not require any parameter tuning by the user and can deal with degradations which occur due to shadows, non-uniform illumination, low contrast, large signal-dependent noise, smear and strain.
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This paper presents a new adaptive approach for the binarization and enhancement of degraded documents. The proposed method does not require any parameter tuning by the user and can deal with degradations which occur due to shadows, non-uniform illumination, low contrast, large signal-dependent noise, smear and strain. We follow several distinct steps: a pre-processing procedure using a low-pass Wiener filter, a rough estimation of foreground regions, a background surface calculation by interpolating neighboring background intensities, a thresholding by combining the calculated background surface with the original image while incorporating image up-sampling and finally a post-processing step in order to improve the quality of text regions and preserve stroke connectivity. After extensive experiments, our method demonstrated superior performance against four (4) well-known techniques on numerous degraded document images.
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