Documents often exhibit various forms of degradation, which make it hard to be read and substantially deteriorate the performance of an OCR system. In this paper, we propose an …
DIBCO 2017 is the international Competition on Document Image Binarization organized in conjunction with the ICDAR 2017 conference. The general objective of the contest is to …
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 …
This paper presents a novel iterative deep learning framework and applies it to document enhancement and binarization. Unlike the traditional methods that predict the binary label of …
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 …
C Tensmeyer, T Martinez - 2017 14th IAPR international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Binarization of degraded historical manuscript images is an important pre-processing step for many document processing tasks. We formulate binarization as a pixel classification …
QN Vo, SH Kim, HJ Yang, G Lee - Pattern Recognition, 2018 - Elsevier
The binarization of degraded document images is a challenging problem in terms of document analysis. Binarization is a classification process in which intra-image pixels are …
Document images can be affected by many degradation scenarios, which cause recognition and processing difficulties. In this age of digitization, it is important to denoise them for …
Handwritten document images can be highly affected by degradation for different reasons: Paper ageing, daily-life scenarios (wrinkles, dust, etc.), bad scanning process and so on …