• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
    Monthly Online Journal (eISSN: 1976-7277)

DP-LinkNet: A convolutional network for historical document image binarization


Abstract

Document image binarization is an important pre-processing step in document analysis and archiving. The state-of-the-art models for document image binarization are variants of encoder-decoder architectures, such as FCN (fully convolutional network) and U-Net. Despite their success, they still suffer from three limitations: (1) reduced feature map resolution due to consecutive strided pooling or convolutions, (2) multiple scales of target objects, and (3) reduced localization accuracy due to the built-in invariance of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). To overcome these three challenges, we propose an improved semantic segmentation model, referred to as DP-LinkNet, which adopts the D-LinkNet architecture as its backbone, with the proposed hybrid dilated convolution (HDC) and spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) modules between the encoder and the decoder. Extensive experiments are conducted on recent document image binarization competition (DIBCO) and handwritten document image binarization competition (H-DIBCO) benchmark datasets. Results show that our proposed DP-LinkNet outperforms other state-of-the-art techniques by a large margin. Our implementation and the pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/beargolden/DP-LinkNet.


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[IEEE Style]
W. Xiong, X. Jia, D. Yang, M. Ai, L. Li, S. Wang, "DP-LinkNet: A convolutional network for historical document image binarization," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1778-1797, 2021. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2021.05.011.

[ACM Style]
Wei Xiong, Xiuhong Jia, Dichun Yang, Meihui Ai, Lirong Li, and Song Wang. 2021. DP-LinkNet: A convolutional network for historical document image binarization. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 15, 5, (2021), 1778-1797. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2021.05.011.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:24643, title="DP-LinkNet: A convolutional network for historical document image binarization", author="Wei Xiong and Xiuhong Jia and Dichun Yang and Meihui Ai and Lirong Li and Song Wang and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2021.05.011}, volume={15}, number={5}, year="2021", month={May}, pages={1778-1797}}