Three-stage binarization of color document images based on discrete wavelet transform and generative adversarial networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16098v8
• Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:36:06 GMT
• Title: Three-stage binarization of color document images based on discrete wavelet transform and generative adversarial networks
• Authors: Rui-Yang Ju, Yu-Shian Lin, Yanlin Jin, Chih-Chia Chen, Chun-Tse Chien, Jen-Shiun Chiang,
• Abstract summary: This work proposes an effective three-stage network method to image enhancement and binarization of degraded documents using generative adversarial networks (GANs) The experimental results show that the Avg-Score metrics of the proposed method are 77.64, 77.95, 79.05, 76.38, 75.34, and 77.00 on the (H)-DIBCO 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018 datasets.
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• Abstract: The efficient extraction of text information from the background in degraded color document images is an important challenge in the preservation of ancient manuscripts. The imperfect preservation of ancient manuscripts has led to different types of degradation over time, such as page yellowing, staining, and ink bleeding, seriously affecting the results of document image binarization. This work proposes an effective three-stage network method to image enhancement and binarization of degraded documents using generative adversarial networks (GANs). Specifically, in Stage-1, we first split the input images into multiple patches, and then split these patches into four single-channel patch images (gray, red, green, and blue). Then, three single-channel patch images (red, green, and blue) are processed by the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) with normalization. In Stage-2, we use four independent generators to separately train GAN models based on the four channels on the processed patch images to extract color foreground information. Finally, in Stage-3, we train two independent GAN models on the outputs of Stage-2 and the resized original input images (512x512) as the local and global predictions to obtain the final outputs. The experimental results show that the Avg-Score metrics of the proposed method are 77.64, 77.95, 79.05, 76.38, 75.34, and 77.00 on the (H)-DIBCO 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018 datasets, which are at the state-of-the-art level. The implementation code for this work is available at https://github.com/abcpp12383/ThreeStageBinarization.

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