Segmentation of ancient documents is challenging. In the worst cases, text characters become fragmented as the results of strong degradation processes. New active contour methods ...
We describe a threshold-based local algorithm for image binarization. The main idea is to compute a transition energy using pixel value differences taken from a neighborhood aroun...
Current approaches to script identification rely on hand-selected features and often require processing a significant part of the document to achieve reliable identification. We p...
We compare in this study two image restoration approaches for the pre-processing of printed documents: namely the Non-local Means filter and a total variation minimization approac...
This paper describes a new approach to restoring scanned color document images where the backside image shows through the paper sheet. A new framework is presented for correcting ...