ICFHR 2012 Competition on Writer Identification Challenge 2: Arabic Scripts

Arabic writer identification is a very active 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 Arabic writer identification. This competition has been hosted on Kaggle, it has attracted forty-three 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.