Document layout analysis: a comprehensive survey

GM Binmakhashen, SA Mahmoud - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2019 - dl.acm.org
Document layout analysis (DLA) is a preprocessing step of document understanding
systems. It is responsible for detecting and annotating the physical structure of documents …

ICDAR2017 competition on document image binarization (DIBCO 2017)

I Pratikakis, K Zagoris, G Barlas… - 2017 14Th IAPR …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

CBCapsNet: A novel writer-independent offline signature verification model using a CNN-based architecture and capsule neural networks

E Parcham, M Ilbeygi, M Amini - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Offline Signature verification is a biometric method with important applications in financial,
legal and administrative procedures. The verification process includes comparing the …

Docentr: An end-to-end document image enhancement transformer

MA Souibgui, S Biswas, SK Jemni… - 2022 26th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Enhance to read better: a multi-task adversarial network for handwritten document image enhancement

SK Jemni, MA Souibgui, Y Kessentini, A Fornés - Pattern Recognition, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Complex image processing with less data—Document image binarization by integrating multiple pre-trained U-Net modules

S Kang, BK Iwana, S Uchida - Pattern Recognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Artificial neural networks have been shown significant performance in various image-to-
image conversion tasks. However, complex conversions often require a large number of …

Two-stage generative adversarial networks for binarization of color document images

S Suh, J Kim, P Lukowicz, YO Lee - Pattern Recognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Document image enhancement and binarization methods are often used to improve the
accuracy and efficiency of document image analysis tasks such as text recognition …

A set of benchmarks for handwritten text recognition on historical documents

JA Sánchez, V Romero, AH Toselli, M Villegas… - Pattern Recognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Handwritten Text Recognition is a important requirement in order to make visible
the contents of the myriads of historical documents residing in public and private archives …

A novel degraded document binarization model through vision transformer network

M Yang, S Xu - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
Degraded document binarization has received keen attention due to its vital influence on
subsequent document analysis tasks. In this study, we propose a novel Degraded Document …

Document image binarization with cascaded generators of conditional generative adversarial networks

J Zhao, C Shi, F Jia, Y Wang, B **ao - Pattern Recognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Binarization is often the first step in many document analysis tasks and plays a key role in
the subsequent steps. In this paper, we formulate binarization as an image-to-image …