Comparison of Niblack inspired binarization methods for ancient documents

Khurram Khurshid; Imran Siddiqi; Claudie Faure; Nicole Vincent

doi:10.1117/12.805827

19 January 2009 Comparison of Niblack inspired binarization methods for ancient documents

Khurram Khurshid, Imran Siddiqi, Claudie Faure, Nicole Vincent

Proceedings Volume 7247, Document Recognition and Retrieval XVI; 72470U (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805827
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new sliding window based local thresholding technique 'NICK' and give a detailed comparison of some existing sliding-window based thresholding algorithms with our method. The proposed method aims at achieving better binarization results, specifically, for ancient document images. NICK has been inspired from the Niblack's binarization method and exhibits its robustness and effectiveness when evaluated on low quality ancient document images.

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Khurram Khurshid, Imran Siddiqi, Claudie Faure, and Nicole Vincent "Comparison of Niblack inspired binarization methods for ancient documents", Proc. SPIE 7247, Document Recognition and Retrieval XVI, 72470U (19 January 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805827

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