A methodology for the separation of foreground/background in Arabic historical manuscripts using hybrid methods
Wafa Boussellaa, Abderrazak Zahour, Adel M. Alimi · 2007
This paper presents a new color document image segmentation system suitable for historical Arabic manuscripts. Our system is composed of a hybrid method which couple together background light intensity normalization algorithm and k-means clustering with maximum likelihood (ML) estimation, for foreground/background separation.