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DE-GAN: A Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Document Enhancement.

Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Yousri Kessentini

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

|September 7, 2020

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This study introduces document enhancement generative adversarial networks (DE-GAN) to restore degraded document images. DE-GAN effectively cleans, binarizes, debits, and removes watermarks, significantly improving OCR performance.

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
Document Image Analysis

Background:

Document degradation hinders readability and degrades Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system performance.
Existing methods struggle to effectively restore severely degraded document images.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose an effective end-to-end framework for restoring severely degraded document images.
To introduce a novel application of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) for document image restoration.

Main Methods:

Development of a document enhancement generative adversarial network (DE-GAN) framework.
Utilizing conditional GANs (cGANs) for image-to-image translation in document restoration.
Evaluation across multiple degradation tasks: cleanup, binarization, deblurring, and watermark removal.

Main Results:

DE-GAN successfully produces high-quality enhanced versions of degraded document images.
Consistent improvements over state-of-the-art methods on DIBCO 2013, DIBCO 2017, and H-DIBCO 2018 datasets.
Demonstrated flexibility and effectiveness in various document enhancement scenarios.

Conclusions:

DE-GAN is a powerful tool for restoring severely degraded documents to an ideal condition.
The proposed framework shows significant potential for broader applications in document image enhancement.
This work establishes a new benchmark for generative adversarial deep networks in document restoration.