ICDAR 2024 Competition on Multi Font Group Recognition and OCR

van der Loop J, Kordon F, Mayr M, Christlein V, Wu F, Rodriguez Salas D, Weichselbaumer N, Seuret M (2024)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2024

Journal

Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

Book Volume: 14809 LNCS

Pages Range: 381-396

Conference Proceedings Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Event location: Athens, GRC

ISBN: 9783031705519

URI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-70552-6_23

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70552-6_23

Abstract

This competition investigates the performance of several methods for two types of analyses of early modern prints: (1) optical character recognition, and (2) font recognition at the character level. We have created and published a novel dataset that contains the ground truth for both tasks. The dataset has been carefully curated and annotated by an expert with several years of expertise in transcribing early modern prints. Both tasks involved two distinct tracks, differing in ground truth management: one that only allows the participants to use the provided data for model training and a second that removes this restriction. Out of the five participating teams, four participated in the first track, and three in the second one. The best team reached a text Character Error Rate (CER) of 0.82 % and a font CER of 2.96 % for the first track. In the second track, these numbers could be slightly improved to 0.81 % text CER and 2.78 % font CER.

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Involved external institutions

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

van der Loop, J., Kordon, F., Mayr, M., Christlein, V., Wu, F., Rodriguez Salas, D.,... Seuret, M. (2024). ICDAR 2024 Competition on Multi Font Group Recognition and OCR. In Elisa H. Barney Smith, Marcus Liwicki, Liangrui Peng (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 381-396). Athens, GRC: Springer Nature Switzerland.

MLA:

van der Loop, Janne, et al. "ICDAR 2024 Competition on Multi Font Group Recognition and OCR." Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2024, Athens, GRC Ed. Elisa H. Barney Smith, Marcus Liwicki, Liangrui Peng, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. 381-396.

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