Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
6-2010
Abstract
The accuracy of a binarization algorithm is often calculated relative to a ground truth image. Except for synthetically generated images, no ground truth image exists. Evaluating binarization on real images is preferred. The ground truthing between and among different operators is compared. Four direct metrics were used. The variability of the results of five different automatic binarization algorithms were compared to that of manual ground truth results. Significant variability in the ground truth results was found.
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© ACM, 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the 9th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, (2010). http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1815330.1815334
Publication Information
Barney Smith, Elisa H.. (2010). "An Analysis of Binarization Ground Truthing". DAS '10 Proceedings of the 9th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, .