—By assuming that the most frequently occuring color in a video or a region of a video belongs to the background of the image, I propose a new algorithm for detecting foreground objects in a video. The process of detecting the foreground objects is complicated because of the fact that there may be swaying trees, objects of the background being moved around or lighting changes in the video. To d...

We propose a novel method for binarization of color documents whereby the foreground text is output as black and the background as white regardless of the polarity of foreground-background shades. The method employs an edge-based connected component approach and automatically determines a threshold for each component. It has several advantages over existing binarization methods. Firstly, it can...