Degraded historical document binarization: A review on issues, challenges, techniques, and future directions

A Sulaiman, K Omar, MF Nasrudin - Journal of Imaging, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this era of digitization, most hardcopy documents are being transformed into digital
formats. In the process of transformation, large quantities of documents are stored and …

Historical document image binarization: A review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This review provides a comprehensive view of the field of historical document image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 …

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 …

Binarization of degraded document images based on hierarchical deep supervised network

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 …

A selectional auto-encoder approach for document image binarization

J Calvo-Zaragoza, AJ Gallego - Pattern Recognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Binarization plays a key role in the automatic information retrieval from document images.
This process is usually performed in the first stages of document analysis systems, and …

Cutting the error by half: Investigation of very deep cnn and advanced training strategies for document image classification

MZ Afzal, A Kölsch, S Ahmed… - 2017 14th IAPR …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an exhaustive investigation of recent Deep Learning architectures, algorithms,
and strategies for the task of document image classification to finally reduce the error by …

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 …

An enhanced binarization framework for degraded historical document images

W **ong, L Zhou, L Yue, L Li, S Wang - EURASIP Journal on Image and …, 2021 - Springer
Binarization plays an important role in document analysis and recognition (DAR) systems. In
this paper, we present our winning algorithm in ICFHR 2018 competition on handwritten …

Autopart: Automating schema design for large scientific databases using data partitioning

S Papadomanolakis, A Ailamaki - … International Conference on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Database applications that use multi-terabyte datasets are becoming increasingly important
for scientific fields such as astronomy and biology. Scientific databases are particularly …

Degraded historical document image binarization using local features and support vector machine (SVM)

W **ong, J Xu, Z **ong, J Wang, M Liu - Optik, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a support vector machine (SVM) based method for degraded historical
document image binarization. Given a degraded historical document image, the proposed …