JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 14(18): 3011-3030, doi: 10.3217/jucs-014-18-3011
An Evaluation Technique for Binarization Algorithms
Pavlos Stathis‡, Ergina Kavallieratou§, Nikos Papamarkos‡‡ Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece§ University of the Aegean, Karlovasi, Greece
Corresponding author: Pavlos Stathis ( pstathis@ee.duth.gr ) © Pavlos Stathis, Ergina Kavallieratou, Nikos Papamarkos. This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License. Citation:
Stathis P, Kavallieratou E, Papamarkos N (2008) An Evaluation Technique for Binarization Algorithms. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 14(18): 3011-3030. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-014-18-3011 |  |
Abstract
Document binarization is an active research area for many years. The choice of the most appropriate binarization algorithm for each case proved to be a very difficult procedure itself. In this paper, we propose a new technique for the validation of document binarization algorithms. Our method is simple in its implementation and can be performed on any binarization algorithm since it doesnt require anything more than the binarization stage. As a demonstration of the proposed technique, we use the case of degraded historical documents. Then we apply the proposed technique to 30 binarization algorithms. Experimental results and conclusions are presented.
Keywords
document image processing, binarization, evaluation