diff --git a/tests/test_server/test_prediction_pipeline/test_preprocessing.py b/tests/test_server/test_prediction_pipeline/test_preprocessing.py
index 8185d7cb..01a8ca8d 100644
--- a/tests/test_server/test_prediction_pipeline/test_preprocessing.py
+++ b/tests/test_server/test_prediction_pipeline/test_preprocessing.py
@@ -51,6 +51,16 @@ def test_zero_mean_unit_across_axes():
     xr.testing.assert_allclose(expected, result[0])
 
 
+def test_binarize():
+    binarize_spec = Preprocessing(name="binarize", kwargs={"threshold": 14})
+    data = xr.DataArray(np.arange(30).reshape(2, 3, 5), dims=("x", "y", "c"))
+    expected = xr.zeros_like(data)
+    expected[{"x": slice(1, None)}] = 1
+    preprocessing = make_preprocessing([binarize_spec])
+    result = preprocessing(data)
+    xr.testing.assert_allclose(expected, result)
+
+
 def test_unknown_preprocessing_should_raise():
     mypreprocessing = Preprocessing(name="mycoolpreprocessing", kwargs={"axes": ("x", "y")})
     with pytest.raises(NotImplementedError):
diff --git a/tiktorch/server/prediction_pipeline/_preprocessing.py b/tiktorch/server/prediction_pipeline/_preprocessing.py
index 92bed2cb..4c0b819e 100644
--- a/tiktorch/server/prediction_pipeline/_preprocessing.py
+++ b/tiktorch/server/prediction_pipeline/_preprocessing.py
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ def zero_mean_unit_variance(tensor: xr.DataArray, axes=None, eps=1.0e-6, mode="p
     return (tensor - mean) / (std + 1.0e-6)
 
 
+def binarize(tensor: xr.DataArray, *, threshold) -> xr.DataArray:
+    return tensor > threshold
+
+
 def ensure_dtype(tensor: xr.DataArray, *, dtype):
     """
     Convert array to a given datatype
@@ -46,6 +50,7 @@ def add_batch_dim(tensor: xr.DataArray):
 KNOWN_PREPROCESSING = {
     "scale_linear": scale_linear,
     "zero_mean_unit_variance": zero_mean_unit_variance,
+    "binarize": binarize,
     "__tiktorch_add_batch_dim": add_batch_dim,
     "__tiktorch_ensure_dtype": ensure_dtype,
 }