ICFHR2014 Competition on Handwritten Document Image Binarization (H-DIBCO 2014)

Author

Ntirogiannis, Konstantinos ; Gatos, Basilis ; Pratikakis, Ioannis

Author_Institution

Comput. Intell. Lab., NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

1-4 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

809

Lastpage

813

Abstract

Document image binarization is an important step in the document image analysis and recognition pipeline. H-DIBCO 2014 is the International Document Image Binarization Competition which is dedicated to handwritten document images organized in conjunction with ICFHR 2014 conference. The objective of the contest is to identify current advances in handwritten document image binarization using meaningful evaluation performance measures. This paper reports on the contest details including the evaluation measures used as well as the performance of the 7 submitted methods along with a short description of each method.

Keywords

document image processing; handwritten character recognition; H-DIBCO; ICFHR 2014 conference; ICFHR2014 competition; International Document Image Binarization Competition; document image analysis pipeline; document image recognition pipeline; handwritten document image binarization; performance evaluation measures; Distortion measurement; Educational institutions; Histograms; Image recognition; PSNR; Text analysis; binarization; handwritten document image processing; performance evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2014 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Heraklion

ISSN

2167-6445

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4335-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICFHR.2014.141

Filename

6981120