ICFHR 2012 Competition on Handwritten Document Image Binarization (H-DIBCO 2012)

Author

Pratikakis, Ioannis ; Gatos, Basilis ; Ntirogiannis, Konstantinos

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

817

Lastpage

822

Abstract

H-DIBCO 2012 is the International Document Image Binarization Competition which is dedicated to handwritten document images organized in conjunction with ICFHR 2012 conference. The objective of the contest is to identify current advances in handwritten document image binarization using meaningful evaluation performance measures. This paper reports on the contest details including the evaluation measures used as well as the performance of the 24 submitted methods along with a short description of each method.

Keywords

document image processing; handwriting recognition; image recognition; performance evaluation; H-DIBCO 2012; ICFHR 2012 competition; ICFHR 2012 conference; International Document Image Binarization Competition; handwritten document image binarization; performance evaluation measures; Clustering algorithms; Distortion measurement; Educational institutions; Filtering algorithms; Image edge detection; Informatics; PSNR; binarization; handwritten document image; performance evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bari

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2262-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICFHR.2012.216

Filename

6424498