Title
Nonlinear edge-preserving diffusion with adaptive source for document images binarization.
Abstract
This paper proposes a nonlinear edge-preserving diffusion equation with an adaptive source term for binarization of degraded document images. The role of nonlinear diffusion term is to smooth images with preservation of text edges and corners, while the source term is responsible for the desired binarization. Unlike other binarization techniques (such as clustering-based and threshold-based), the idea behind the proposed method is that a sequence of gradually binarized images is obtained by solving the evolution equation starting with the image to be binarized, and tends to the slightly smoothed version of the desired binary image at infinity. A semi-implicit parallel splitting-up method is developed for solving the proposed model effectively. The proposed model with algorithm is tested on the DIBCO (Document Image Binarization Competitions) series datasets. The results show that it has generally the best performance, compared to four PDE (partial differential equation)-based binarization models, and six recent and benchmark binarization algorithms (non-PDE based).
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.amc.2019.01.021
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Document image,Binarization,Nonlinear diffusion,Parallel splitting-up method
Nonlinear system,Mathematical analysis,Nonlinear diffusion,Binary image,Infinity,Algorithm,Partial differential equation,Mathematics,Evolution equation,Diffusion equation
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
351
0096-3003
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiebin Guo100.34
Chuanjiang He215911.23
Xiaoting Zhang300.68