[ANN] ImageBinarization.jl - Automatically binarize images into background and foreground

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The ImageBinarization package provides numerous algorithms for transforming an image into a bi-level image (black background and white foreground). The initial release implements the following algorithms:

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  8. J. Sauvola and M. Pietikäinen (2000). “Adaptive document image binarization”. Pattern Recognition 33 (2): 225-236. doi:10.1016/S0031-3203(99)00055-2

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  10. R. E. Vidal, “Generalized Principal Component Analysis (GPCA): An Algebraic Geometric Approach to Subspace Clustering and Motion Segmentation.” Order No. 3121739, University of California, Berkeley, Ann Arbor, 2003.

  11. Faisal Shafait, Daniel Keysers and Thomas M. Breuel (2008). “Efficient implementation of local adaptive thresholding techniques using integral images”. Proc. SPIE 6815, Document Recognition and Retrieval XV, 681510 (28 January 2008). doi:10.1117/12.767755

  12. P. L. Rosin, “Unimodal thresholding,” Pattern Recognition, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 2083–2096, Nov. 2001.doi:10.1016/s0031-3203(00)00136-9

  13. Yen JC, Chang FJ, Chang S (1995), “A New Criterion for Automatic Multilevel Thresholding”, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing 4 (3): 370-378, doi:10.1109/83.366472

Some algorithms are particularly well-suited for binarizing text documents. Many of the algorithms are actually implemented in the companion package HistogramThresholding which currently operates at the level of one-dimensional histograms and not images.

The package was conceptualized and developed during the University of Adelaide Summer School Scholarship 2019 program and includes valuable contributions from:

  1. Abbey McCarthy
  2. Isabella Scalzi
  3. Tristan Betterman
  4. Wen Siang Tan
  5. Robert Woods
  6. William Godfrey

You will find important details about the various algorithms in the package documentation.

We hope you will find the algorithms useful in your own work.

Best wishes,

Zygmunt Szpak

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Really nice, keep up the nice work !