End-to-End Unsupervised Document Image Blind Denoising

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09437v1
• Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 23:55:15 GMT
• Title: End-to-End Unsupervised Document Image Blind Denoising
• Authors: Mehrdad J Gangeh, Marcin Plata, Hamid Motahari, Nigel P Duffy
• Abstract summary: We propose a unified end-to-end unsupervised deep learning model, for the first time, that can effectively remove multiple types of noise. We demonstrate that the proposed model significantly improves the quality of scanned images and the OCR of the pages on several test datasets.
• Score: 0.8717253904965373
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Removing noise from scanned pages is a vital step before their submission to optical character recognition (OCR) system. Most available image denoising methods are supervised where the pairs of noisy/clean pages are required. However, this assumption is rarely met in real settings. Besides, there is no single model that can remove various noise types from documents. Here, we propose a unified end-to-end unsupervised deep learning model, for the first time, that can effectively remove multiple types of noise, including salt \& pepper noise, blurred and/or faded text, as well as watermarks from documents at various levels of intensity. We demonstrate that the proposed model significantly improves the quality of scanned images and the OCR of the pages on several test datasets.

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