Foreground-Background Separation by Feed-forward Neural Networks in Old Manuscripts
Abstract
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are widely used techniques in image processing and pattern
recognition. Despite of their power in classification tasks, for pattern recognition, they show limited
applicability in the earlier stages such as the foreground-background separation (FBS). In this paper a
novel FBS technique based on ANN is applied on old documents with a variety of degradations. The
idea is to train the ANN on a set of pairs of original images and their respective ideal black and white
ones relying on global and local information. We ran several experiments on benchmark and synthetic
data and we obtained better results than state-of-the art methods.
recognition. Despite of their power in classification tasks, for pattern recognition, they show limited
applicability in the earlier stages such as the foreground-background separation (FBS). In this paper a
novel FBS technique based on ANN is applied on old documents with a variety of degradations. The
idea is to train the ANN on a set of pairs of original images and their respective ideal black and white
ones relying on global and local information. We ran several experiments on benchmark and synthetic
data and we obtained better results than state-of-the art methods.
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