ICDAR 2013 Document Image Binarization Contest (DIBCO 2013)

Author

Pratikakis, Ioannis ; Gatos, Basilis ; Ntirogiannis, Konstantinos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

fYear

2013

fDate

25-28 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

1471

Lastpage

1476

Abstract

DIBCO 2013 is the international Document Image Binarization Contest organized in the context of ICDAR 2013 conference. The general objective of the contest is to identify current advances in document image binarization for both machine-printed and handwritten document images using evaluation performance measures that conform to document image analysis and recognition. This paper describes the contest details including the evaluation measures used as well as the performance of the 23 submitted methods along with a short description of each method.

Keywords

document image processing; image recognition; performance evaluation; DIBCO 2013; ICDAR 2013 Document Image Binarization Contest; ICDAR 2013 conference; document image analysis; document image recognition; evaluation performance measures; handwritten document images; international document image binarization contest; machine-printed images; Distortion measurement; Educational institutions; Image edge detection; Image resolution; Image segmentation; PSNR; document image binarisation; performance evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

1520-5363

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.2013.219

Filename

6628857