Historical document image binarization: A review

C Tensmeyer, T Martinez - SN Computer Science, 2020 - Springer
This review provides a comprehensive view of the field of historical document image
binarization with a focus on the contributions made in the last decade. After the introduction …

A Review of Document Binarization: Main Techniques, New Challenges, and Trends

Z Yang, S Zuo, Y Zhou, J He, J Shi - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Document image binarization is a challenging task, especially when it comes to text
segmentation in degraded document images. The binarization, as a pre-processing step of …

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 …

De-gan: A conditional generative adversarial network for document enhancement

MA Souibgui, Y Kessentini - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

DeepOtsu: Document enhancement and binarization using iterative deep learning

S He, L Schomaker - Pattern recognition, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Document image binarization with fully convolutional neural networks

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 …

ICDAR 2013 document image binarization contest (DIBCO 2013)

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 …

ICFHR2016 handwritten document image binarization contest (H-DIBCO 2016)

I Pratikakis, K Zagoris, G Barlas… - 2016 15th International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

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 …

Docres: a generalist model toward unifying document image restoration tasks

J Zhang, D Peng, C Liu, P Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Document image restoration is a crucial aspect of Document AI systems as the quality of
document images significantly influences the overall performance. Prevailing methods …