Document image binarization using a discriminative structural classifier

• Published in: Pattern recognition letters Vol. 63; pp. 36 - 42
• Main Authors: Ahmadi, Ehsan, Azimifar, Zohreh, Shams, Maryam, Famouri, Mahmoud, Shafiee, Mohammad Javad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.10.2015
• Subjects: Document image binarization; Graphical model; Structural classifier; Document image binarization; Structural classifier; Graphical model

•A new supervised algorithm for document image binarization is proposed.•The proposed method uses a discriminative graphical model for binarization.•The results are compared with the participants of a famous contest. Binarization is one of the key initial steps in image analysis and system understan...