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2017 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Historical Document Binarization Combining Semantic Labeling and Graph Cuts
verfasst von : Kalyan Ram Ayyalasomayajula, Anders Brun
Erschienen in: Image Analysis
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Abstract
Most data mining applications on collections of historical documents require binarization of the digitized images as a pre-processing step. Historical documents are often subjected to degradations such as parchment aging, smudges and bleed through from the other side. The text is sometimes printed, but more often handwritten. Mathematical modeling of appearance of the text, background and all kinds of degradations, is challenging. In the current work we try to tackle binarization as pixel classification problem. We first apply semantic segmentation, using fully convolutional neural networks. In order to improve the sharpness of the result, we then apply a graph cut algorithm. The labels from the semantic segmentation are used as approximate estimates of the text and background, with the probability map of background used for pruning the edges in the graph cut. The results obtained show significant improvement over the state of the art approach.