Binarization of low-quality barcode images captured by mobile phones using local window of adaptive location and size

• Main Authors: Kot, Alex Chichung, Yang, Huijuan, Jiang, Xudong
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98912; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13491
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It is difficult to directly apply existing binarization approaches to the barcode images captured by mobile device due to their low quality. This paper proposes a novel scheme for the binarization of such images. The barcode and background regions are differentiated by the number of edge pixels in a...