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A local linear level set method for the binarization of degraded historical document images

David Rivest-Hénault, R. F. Moghaddam, M. Cheriet

2011.4.5International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)

DOI: 10.1007/s10032-011-0157-5

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This work achieves binarization of document images by taking advantage of local probabilistic models and of a flexible active contour scheme, which is highly successful in other contexts, such as medical image segmentation and road network extraction from satellite images.

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RIVEST-HÉNAULT, David; MOGHADDAM, R. F.; CHERIET, M. A local linear level set method for the binarization of degraded historical document images. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), 2011, 15: 101–124.