Document image binarization based on topographic analysis using a water flow model |
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Authors: | In-Kwon KimDong-Wook Jung Rae-Hong Park |
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Affiliation: | Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University C.P.O. Box 1142, Seoul 100-611, South Korea |
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Abstract: | This paper proposes a local adaptive thresholding method based on a water flow model, in which an image surface is considered as a three-dimensional (3-D) terrain. To extract characters from backgrounds, we pour water onto the terrain surface. Water flows down to the lower regions of the terrain and fills valleys. Then, the thresholding process is applied to the amount of filled water for character extraction, in which the proposed thresholding method is applied to gray level document images consisting of characters and backgrounds. The proposed method based on a water flow model shows the property of locally adaptive thresholding. Computer simulation with synthetic and real document images shows that the proposed method yields effective adaptive thresholding results for binarization of document images. |
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Keywords: | Water flow model Local adaptive thresholding Binarization Document image |
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