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New Binarization Approach Based on Text Block Extraction

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The aim of the present approach is the application of binarization algorithms on selected objects-of-interest on a combination between a preprocessing step and a localization step.
Abstract
Document analysis and recognition systems include, usually, several levels, annotation, preprocessing, segmentation, feature extraction, classification and post-processing. Each level may be dependent on or independent from the other levels. The presence of noise in images can affect the performance of the entire system. This noise can be introduced by the digitization step or from the document itself. In this paper, we present a new binarization approach based on a combination between a preprocessing step and a localization step. The aim of the present approach is the application of binarization algorithms on selected objects-of-interest. The evaluation of the developed approach is performed using two benchmarking datasets from the last two document binarization contests (DIBCO 2009 and H-DIBCO 2010). It shows very promising results.

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ICDAR 2011 Document Image Binarization Contest (DIBCO 2011)

TL;DR: The contest details including the evaluation measures used as well as the performance of the 18 submitted methods are described along with a short description of each method.
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A combined approach for the binarization of handwritten document images

TL;DR: A combination of a global and a local adaptive binarization method at connected component level is proposed that aims in an improved overall performance and achieves top performance after extensive testing on the DIBCO (Document Image Binarization Contest) series datasets.
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Computer vision detection of surface defect on oranges by means of a sliding comparison window local segmentation algorithm

TL;DR: The proposed image segmentation algorithm was able to correctly detect 97% of the defective orange and also presents the detailed image processing procedure including removal of background pixels, image binarization using local segmentation, image subtraction, image morphological modification, removal of stem end pixels for detecting surface defect in an orange gray-level image.
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Historical document binarization based on phase information of images

TL;DR: In this paper, phase congruency features are used to develop a binarization method for degraded documents and manuscripts and Gaussian and median filtering are used in order to improve the final binarized output.
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GiB : A ${G}$ ame Theory ${I}$ nspired ${B}$ inarization Technique for Degraded Document Images

TL;DR: The experimental results show that GiB (Game theory Inspired Binarization) outperforms competing state-of-the-art methods in most cases.
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