Binarization is a process of separation of pixel values of an input image into two pixel values like white as background and black as foreground. It is an important part in image processing and it is the first step in many document analysis and OCR processes. Most of the binarization techniques associate a certain intensity value called threshold which separate the pixel values of the concerned...

Document Image Binarization is performed in the preprocessing stage for document analysis and it aims to segment the foreground text from the document background. A fast and accurate document image binarization technique is important for the ensuing document image processing tasks such as optical character recognition (OCR) and Document Image Retrieval (DIR). This research area has been studied...

The paper presents some aspects of the (gray level) image binarization methods used in artificial vision systems. It is introduced a new approach of gray level image binarization for artificial vision systems dedicated to industrial automation – temporal thresholding. In the first part of the paper are extracted some limitations of using the global optimum thresholding in gray level image binar...

Image binarization is a common operation in the pre-processing stage in most Optical Music Recognition (OMR) systems. The choice of an appropriate binarization method for handwritten music scores is a difficult problem. Several works have already evaluated the performance of existing binarization processes in diverse applications. However, no goal-directed studies for music sheets documents wer...

Image binarization plays major role for document image binarization. Scanning and printing of documents can degrades their visibility that makes difficult to understand them. This paper has proposed a new technique which has ability to binarized documents in efficient manner. In the proposed method, a phase-based binarization model for document images is proposed, as well as a post processing m...