An optimization for binarization methods by removing binary artifacts

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1299-1306

  Ramírez Ortegón, Marte A ^a,c   Märgner, Volker ^a   Cuevas, Erik ^c   Rojas, Raúl ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bayes theory; Binarization; Denoising; Historical documents; Minimum error rate; Threshold

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEORY; BINARIZATIONS; DE-NOISING; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; MINIMUM ERROR RATE; THRESHOLD;

HISTORY;

BINARY IMAGES;

EID: 84878080800     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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