| International Journal of Computer Applications | 
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA | 
| Volume 54 - Number 13 | 
| Year of Publication: 2012 | 
| Authors: Arathy Reghukumar, Divya Haridas, Poornima Rajan, Sachin Kumar S, K. P. Soman | 
|  10.5120/8625-2491 | 
Arathy Reghukumar, Divya Haridas, Poornima Rajan, Sachin Kumar S, K. P. Soman . Active Contour based Document Image Segmentation and Restoration using Split-Bregman and Edge Enhancement Diffusion. International Journal of Computer Applications. 54, 13 ( September 2012), 14-20. DOI=10.5120/8625-2491
This paper presents PDE based document image segmentation and restoration approach using active contours, non-linear diffusion and split-bregman algorithm. We applied additive (Gaussian, salt & pepper) and multiplicative noise (speckle noise) to clean document images, taken from DIBCO 2009 image dataset. Along with image denoising and segmentaiton, the edges in the image are enhanced through non-linear diffusion operation. Acitve contour is also used to get a binarized document image.