An Empirical Evaluation on HIT-OR3C Database

Recently, we have proposed a handwriting Chinese character database HIT-OR3C. Though it has been introduced in detail, to date, it has not been evaluated by any handwriting recognition method. To help the researchers use this database for algorithm evaluation, we propose the structure of HIT-OR3C database. Moreover, we evaluate the OR3C database with a series of experiments using state-of-the-art handwriting recognizer. These experiment results on the different subsets can be a benchmark for the researchers who will use the database. The low average recognition rate confirms that the HIT-OR3C database is challenging.