ICDAR 2019 Competition on Image Retrieval for Historical Handwritten Documents

Christlein V, Nikolaou A, Seuret M, Stutzmann D, Maier A (2019)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2019

Pages Range: 1505-1509

Conference Proceedings Title: 2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)

Event location: Sydney

ISBN: 9781728130149

URI: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03713

DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2019.00242

Abstract

This competition investigates the performance of large-scale retrieval of historical document images based on writing style. Based on large image data sets provided by cultural heritage institutions and digital libraries, providing a total of 20 000 document images representing about 10 000 writers, divided in three types: writers of (i) manuscript books, (ii) letters, (iii) charters and legal documents. We focus on the task of automatic image retrieval to simulate common scenarios of humanities research, such as writer retrieval. The most teams submitted traditional methods not using deep learning techniques. The competition results show that a combination of methods is outperforming single methods. Furthermore, letters are much more difficult to retrieve than manuscripts.

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APA:

Christlein, V., Nikolaou, A., Seuret, M., Stutzmann, D., & Maier, A. (2019). ICDAR 2019 Competition on Image Retrieval for Historical Handwritten Documents. In 2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (pp. 1505-1509). Sydney, AU.

MLA:

Christlein, Vincent, et al. "ICDAR 2019 Competition on Image Retrieval for Historical Handwritten Documents." Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Sydney 2019. 1505-1509.

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