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A Ground Truth Bleed-Through Document Image Database

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Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2012)

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This paper introduces a new database of 25 recto/verso image pairs from documents suffering from bleed-through degradation, together with manually created foreground text masks. The structure and creation of the database is described, and three bleed-through restoration methods are compared in two ways; visually, and quantitatively using the ground truth masks.

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  1. Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    Róisín Rowley-Brooke, François Pitié & Anil Kokaram

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  1. Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus

    Panayiotis Zaphiris  & Fernando Loizides  & 

  2. School of Informatics, City University of London, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB, London, UK

    George Buchanan

  3. School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, The University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Rowley-Brooke, R., Pitié, F., Kokaram, A. (2012). A Ground Truth Bleed-Through Document Image Database. In: Zaphiris, P., Buchanan, G., Rasmussen, E., Loizides, F. (eds) Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7489. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_21

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