@InProceedings{IPC2018_HM, author="Michalak, Hubert and Okarma, Krzysztof", editor="Chora{\'{s}}, Micha{\l} and Chora{\'{s}}, Ryszard S.", title="Fast Adaptive Binarization with Background Estimation for Non-uniformly Lightened Document Images", booktitle="Image Processing and Communications Challenges 10", year="2019", publisher="Springer International Publishing", address="Cham", pages="114--122", abstract="Fast and reliable adaptive binarization of unevenly lightened document images is one of the key issues for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) purposes applied in mobile devices with limited computational power. Considering the document image captured in unknown lighting conditions the use of a single global thresholding in the binarization step makes the text recognition impossible as some parts of it might be lost in the analysed binary image.", isbn="978-3-030-03658-4" }