ACM Multimedia 2023: DocDiff: Document Enhancement via Residual Diffusion Models. Also contains 1597 red seals in Chinese scenes, along with their corresponding binary masks.

Abstract: In this paper, a phase-based binarization model for ancient document images is proposed, as well as a postprocessing method that can improve any binarization method and a ground truth ...

Abstract: A vast number of historical and badly degraded document images can be found in libraries, public, and national archives. Due to the complex nature of different artifacts, such poor quality ...

Ever wondered how Google Lens scans and reads wifi password at your favourite Starbucks? The answer lies in real time scene text detection. In a recent paper, Real Time Scene-Text Detection with ...