Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2014 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Heraklion
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4335-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICFHR.2014.141
