ICDAR 2013 Competition on Handwriting Stroke Recovery from Offline Data

Stroke recovery from offline handwriting is a very interesting research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare recent advances in stroke recovery from offline handwriting. This competition has been hosted on Kaggle, it has attracted 45 teams from both academia and industry. This paper gives details on this competition, including the dataset used, the evaluation procedure and description of participating methods and their performances.