Text binarization in color documents

This article presents a new method for the binarization of color document images. Initially, the colors of the document image are reduced to a small number using a new color reduction technique. Specifically, this technique estimates the dominant colors and then assigns the original image colors to them in order that the background and text components to become uniform. Each dominant color defines a color plane in which the connected components (CCs) are extracted. Next, in each color plane a CC filtering procedure is applied which is followed by a grouping procedure. At the end of this stage, blocks of CCs are constructed which are next redefined by obtaining the direction of connection (DOC) property for each CC. Using the DOC property, the blocks of CCs are classified as text or nontext. The identified text blocks are binarized properly using suitable binarization techniques, considering the rest of the pixels as background. The final result is a binary image which contains always black characters in white background independently of the original colors of each text block. The proposed document binarization approach can also be used for binarization of noisy color (or gray‐scale) document images. Several experiments that confirm the effectiveness of the proposed technique are presented. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 16, 262–274, 2006     

Development of Palmprint Verification System Using Biometrics

1 Introduction Reliability in personal authentication is key to the security in any transactional database. Many physiological characteristics of humans i.e., biometrics, are typically time invariant, easy to acquire, and unique for every individual. Biom…     

一种改进的指纹图像二值化算法

提出了一种直接基于指纹结构特征的二值化算法，在去除指纹图像中无效块后，利用指纹纹理表现出的规律来提取脊线谷线信息从而去除噪声。实验结果表明基于结构特征的二值化算法可以克服较多的噪声干扰，大大减少了指纹图像中的伪脊线结构，得到精确的二值图像。     

一种新的动态二值化算法

本文提出了一种新的动态二值化算法，以实现从灰度点阵图象中提取其对象。通过分析象素和其所在的局部区和灰度值等数字特征，可以判断局部区的内是否存在对象，阈值和判断条件对应。     

图像的二值化处理

在某些情况下，整体阈值选取方法（即根据整幅图像确定一个阈值)不宜采用，而应代之以局部阈值选取方法，本文采取局部区域自动阈值选择的方法，解决了显微细胞图像分割困难的问题。     

An adaptive local binarization method for document images based on a novel thresholding method and dynamic windows

Binary image representation is essential format for document analysis. In general, different available binarization techniques are implemented for different types of binarization problems. The majority of binarization techniques are complex and are compounded from filters and existing operations. However, the few simple thresholding methods available cannot be applied to many binarization problems. In this paper, we propose a local binarization method based on a simple, novel thresholding method with dynamic and flexible windows. The proposed method is tested on selected samples called the DIBCO 2009 benchmark dataset using specialized evaluation techniques for binarization processes. To evaluate the performance of our proposed method, we compared it with the Niblack, Sauvola and NICK methods. The results of the experiments show that the proposed method adapts well to all types of binarization challenges, can deal with higher numbers of binarization problems and boosts the overall performance of the binarization.     

复杂背景下的多阈值人眼定位新算法*

提出了一种基于复杂背景下的多阈值人眼定位算法。该算法首先对图像进行光线补偿,减小由于光照不均等因素造成的影响;然后根据对人眼灰度特征的分析来确定3个人眼二值化阈值,从而分离出人眼候选区域;最后根据人脸的几何特征、人眼位置判定准则以及计算二维相关系数来排除非人眼区域,从而定位双眼。实验结果表明,该算法能在不同条件下准确定位人眼,且具有较快的定位速度和较高的检测率。     

基于CCD的垂线坐标仪的设计

针对矿井井壁变形引起的径向位移测量问题,提出了一种基于CCD的垂线坐标仪的设计方案,给出了垂线坐标仪的结构及其在井壁变形监测系统中的布置,详细介绍了垂线坐标仪的软、硬件设计。该垂线坐标仪利用CCD采集光信号并将其转换为视频信号,采用LPC932对采集的视频信号进行二值化处理及计数,并将处理结果发送至地面计算机进行分析,从而得到矿井井壁变形引起的径向位移量。测试结果验证了该垂线坐标仪的稳定性和精确性。     

Adaptive thresholding algorithm: Efficient computation technique based on intelligent block detection for degraded document images

Document image binarization involves converting gray level images into binary images, which is a feature that has significantly impacted many portable devices in recent years, including PDAs and mobile camera phones. Given the limited memory space and the computational power of portable devices, reducing the computational complexity of an embedded system is of priority concern. This work presents an efficient document image binarization algorithm with low computational complexity and high performance. Integrating the advantages of global and local methods allows the proposed algorithm to divide the document image into several regions. A threshold surface is then constructed based on the diversity and the intensity of each region to derive the binary image. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in providing a promising binarization outcome and low computational cost.     

一种基于全局阈值二值化方法的BP神经网络车牌字符识别系统

本文针对车牌字符识别系统在工程应用中存在识别准确率不高、效率低的问题,从工程实践的角度描述了一种新的基于BP神经网络的识别系统在车牌字符识别中的应用。详细介绍了车牌字符识别中的样本集和测试集的组织、图像二值化、归一化、图像去噪、神经网络构建和训练。实践结果表明,本系统适用于自然场景中的车牌自动识别问题,并且具有较强的适应性。