This work focuses on the most commonly used binarization method: Sauvola's. It performs
relatively well on classical documents, however, three main defects remain: the window …

Document analysis systems often begin with binarization as a first processing stage.
Although numerous techniques for binarization have been proposed, the results produced …

Binarization of historical documents is difficult and is still an open area of research. In this
paper, a new binarization technique for document images is presented. The proposed …

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 analysis and recognition systems include, usually, several levels, annotation,
preprocessing, segmentation, feature extraction, classification and post-processing. Each …

Image binarization has a large effect on the rest of the document image analysis processes
in character recognition. Algorithm development is still a major focus of research. Evaluation …

Most of the document binarization techniques have many parameters that can initially be
specified. Usually, subjective document binarization evaluation, employs human observes …

Binary image representation is essential format for document analysis. In general, different
available binarization techniques are implemented for different types of binarization …

Almost all binarization methods have a few parameters that require setting. However, they
do not usually achieve their upper-bound performance unless the parameters are …

In this paper, we present an adaptive method for the binarization of historical manuscripts
and degraded document images. The proposed approach is based on maximum likelihood …