@InProceedings{ACS2018_HM,
author="Michalak, Hubert and Okarma, Krzysztof",
editor="Peja{\'{s}}, Jerzy and ElFray, Imed and Hyla, Tomasz",
title="Region Based Approach for Binarization of Degraded Document Images",
booktitle="Advances in Soft and Hard Computing",
year="2019",
publisher="Springer International Publishing",
address="Cham",
pages="433--444",
abstract="Binarization of highly degraded document images is one of the key steps of image preprocessing, influencing the final results of further text recognition and document analysis. As the contaminations visible on such documents are usually local, the most popular fast global thresholding methods should not be directly applied for such images. On the other hand, the application of some typical adaptive methods based on the analysis of the neighbourhood of each pixel of the images is time consuming and not always leads to satisfactory results. To bridge the gap between those two approaches the application of region based modifications of some histogram based thresholding methods has been proposed in the paper. It has been verified for well known Otsu, Rosin and Kapur algorithms using the challenging images from Bickley Diary dataset. Experimental results obtained for region based Otsu and Kapur methods are superior in comparison to the use of global methods and may be the basis for further research towards combined region based binarization of degraded document images.",
isbn="978-3-030-03313-2"
}