ICDAR 2009 Handwriting Recognition Competition

  • Authors:
  • Emmanuèle Grosicki;Haikal El Abed

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper describes the handwriting recognition competitionheld at ICDAR 2009. This competition is based onthe RIMES-database, with French written text documents.These document are classified in three different categories,complete text pages, words, and isolated characters. Thisyear 10 systems were submitted for the handwritten recognitioncompetition on snippets of French words. The systemswere evaluated in three subtask depending of the sizes ofthe used dictionary. A comparison between different classificationand recognition systems show interesting results. Ashort description of the participating groups, their systems,and the results achieved are presented.