Persian Heritage Image Binarization Competition (PHIBC 2012)
This addresses the problem of preserving and analyzing Persian cultural heritage through image processing for researchers and archivists, but it is incremental as it focuses on a specific competition and dataset.
The paper reports on the Persian Heritage Image Binarization Competition (PHIBC 2012), which evaluated the performance of three binarization algorithms on historical Persian documents and manuscripts, providing results based on specified evaluation measures.
The first competition on the binarization of historical Persian documents and manuscripts (PHIBC 2012) has been organized in conjunction with the first Iranian conference on pattern recognition and image analysis (PRIA 2013). The main objective of PHIBC 2012 is to evaluate performance of the binarization methodologies, when applied on the Persian heritage images. This paper provides a report on the methodology and performance of the three submitted algorithms based on evaluation measures has been used.