NIST 2013 Open Handwriting Recognition and Translation (Open HaRT´13) Evaluation

Author

Tong, Alexander ; Przybocki, Mark ; Margner, Volker ; El Abed, Haikal

Author_Institution

Multimodal Inf. Group, Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 April 2014

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

85

Abstract

This paper describes the NIST 2013 Open Handwriting Recognition and Translation evaluation (OpenHaRT´13). A short background leading to the start of OpenHaRT is included. The test designs pertaining to the tasks, the data used, the performance measurements, and the protocols are presented. The participants and their submissions are mentioned followed by the evaluation results and some preliminary analyses. The paper concludes with some thoughts toward future evaluations.

Keywords

handwriting recognition; language translation; optical character recognition; performance evaluation; text analysis; NIST 2013 open handwriting recognition; OpenHaRT; performance measurements; protocols; translation evaluation; Conferences; Educational institutions; Handwriting recognition; Measurement; NIST; Text recognition; Training; Arabic text recognition; OCR; benchmark test; evaluation; machine translation of OCR text; performance assessment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2014 11th IAPR International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Tours

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3243-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DAS.2014.43

Filename

6830974