Title :
ICDAR 2013 Competition on Writer Identification
Author :
Louloudis, Georgios ; Gatos, Basilis ; Stamatopoulos, Nikolaos ; Papandreou, A.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Intell. Lab., Nat. Center for Sci. Res. "Demokritos", Athens, Greece
Abstract :
Writer identification is important for forensic analysis, helping experts to deliberate on the authenticity of documents. The ICDAR2013 Competition on Writer Identification is part of a competition series (see also ICDAR2011 and ICFHR2012 Writer Identification Contests) which is dedicated to record recent advances in the field of writer identification for Latin scripts using established evaluation performance measures. The benchmarking dataset was created with the help of 250 writers that were asked to copy four parts of text in two Latin based languages (English and Greek). This paper describes the contest details including the evaluation measures used as well as the performance of the 12 submitted methods by 6 different groups along with a short description of each method.
Keywords :
document image processing; handwritten character recognition; natural language processing; English language; Greek language; ICDAR 2013 competition; ICDAR2011 competition; ICFHR2012 competition; Latin based languages; Latin scripts; benchmarking dataset; document authenticity; performance evaluation measures; text copy; writer identification; Accuracy; Benchmark testing; Educational institutions; Feature extraction; Handwriting recognition; Text analysis; Vectors; Writer Identification; handwritten document image processing; performance evaluation;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.2013.282