An Objective Evaluation Methodology for Handwritten Image Document Binarization Techniques

This paper presents an objective evaluation methodology for handwritten document image binarization techniques that aims to reduce the human involvement in the ground truth construction and consecutive testing. A detailed description of the methodology along with a benchmarking of the state-of-the-art binarization algorithms based on the proposed methodology is presented.

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