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Border Noise Removal and Clean Up Based on Retinex Theory

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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Data and Information Engineering (DaEng-2013)

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Conversion from gray scale or color document image into binary image is the main step in most of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems and document analysis. After digitization, document images often suffer from poor contrast, noise, uniform lighting, and shadow. Also when a page of book is digitized using a scanner or a camera, a border noise, which is an unwanted text coming from the adjacent page, may appear. In this paper we present a simple and efficient document image clean up by border noise removal and enhancement based on retinex theory and global threshold. The proposed method produces high quality results compared to the previous works.

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  1. Centre of Intelligent Signal and Imaging Research (CISIR), Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia

    Marian Wagdy, Ibrahima Faye & Dayang Rohaya

  2. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia

    Marian Wagdy & Dayang Rohaya

  3. Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia

    Ibrahima Faye

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  3. School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia

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Wagdy, M., Faye, I., Rohaya, D. (2014). Border Noise Removal and Clean Up Based on Retinex Theory. In: Herawan, T., Deris, M., Abawajy, J. (eds) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Data and Information Engineering (DaEng-2013). Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 285. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-18-7_39

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