https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.06081/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818361urn:hackerpapers:mention:1901.06081:45818361Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:39:00 GMT<p>I am usually working with historical documents, where both Otsu and adaptive thresholding are frustratingly almost but not quite good enough. My go-to approach lately is &quot;DeepOtsu&quot; [1]. I like that it combines the best of both the traditional and deep learning worlds: a deep neural net enhances the image such that Otsu thresholding is likely to work well. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06081</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.06081/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CV