Exploring Image Binarization Techniques

• Main Authors: Chaki, Nabendu (Author), Shaikh, Soharab Hossain (Author), Saeed, Khalid (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 560
• Subjects: Engineering.; Image processing.; Computational intelligence.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Computational Intelligence.

The book focuses on an image processing technique known as binarization. It provides a comprehensive survey over existing binarization techniques for both document and graphic images. A number of evaluation techniques have been presented for quantitative comparison of different binarization methods....

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• A Comprehensive Survey on Image Binarization Techniques
• A New Image Binarization Technique using Iterative Partitioning
• A Framework for Creating Reference Image for Degraded Document Images
• Image Binarization and Its Applications
• Conclusions.