An analysis of the transition proportion for binarization in handwritten historical documents

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Highlights:

• The minimum-error-rate (MER) based on transition sets is similar to the actual MER.

• We show that the transition proportion has a small influence in the normal threshold.

• The transition proportion is a feature to calculate the stroke width on a document.

• The transition proportion is a feature that identify regions of interest.

• Gray-intensity histograms are lognormally distributed rather than normally distributed.

摘要

Highlights•The minimum-error-rate (MER) based on transition sets is similar to the actual MER.•We show that the transition proportion has a small influence in the normal threshold.•The transition proportion is a feature to calculate the stroke width on a document.•The transition proportion is a feature that identify regions of interest.•Gray-intensity histograms are lognormally distributed rather than normally distributed.

论文关键词:Historical documents,Threshold,Thresholding,Binarization,Transition method,Transition pixel,Normal,Lognormal,Minimum error rate,Otsu,Bayes׳ theory

论文评审过程:Received 13 September 2012, Revised 27 January 2014, Accepted 7 February 2014, Available online 18 February 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2014.02.003