2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2010
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2010.500
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Unsupervised Evaluation Methods Based on Local Gray-Intensity Variances for Binarization of Historical Documents

Abstract: We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of six unsupervised evaluation method to tune Sauvola's threshold in optical character recognition (OCR) applications. We propose local implementations of well-known measures based on grayintensity variances. Additionally, we derive four new measures from them using the unbiased variance estimator and grayintensity logarithms. In our experiment, we selected the well binarized images, according each measure, and computed the accuracy of the recognized text of each. The result… Show more

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“…Ramirez‐Ortegon and Rojas [25] studied the efficacy of six evaluation measures of the binarisation quality for tuning binarisation methods in order to maximise the accuracy of optical character recognition (OCR) applications. The compared measures are Unsupervised Empirical Measures based on grey‐intensity variance.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ramirez‐Ortegon and Rojas [25] studied the efficacy of six evaluation measures of the binarisation quality for tuning binarisation methods in order to maximise the accuracy of optical character recognition (OCR) applications. The compared measures are Unsupervised Empirical Measures based on grey‐intensity variance.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Feature extraction with mean threshold for binarization has been discussed in [19,20] and with bit plane slicing in [21]. The problem of uneven illumination in images was efficiently addressed by local threshold techniques [9,[22][23][24][25][26]. The literatures have used measures of dispersion like standard deviation and variance to calculate the threshold.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hence, the spread of data is not well captured in a binarization process for feature extraction. This concern has been well handled by commencing the computation for the standard deviation and variance of gray values for local-threshold selection techniques [18]- [20]. Threshold calculation has been carried out exhaustively in the case of global-threshold selection techniques for feature extraction using binarization [21], [22].…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%