DIBCO 2017 is the international Competition on Document Image Binarization organized in
conjunction with the ICDAR 2017 conference. The general objective of the contest is to …

H-DIBCO 2012 is the International Document Image Binarization Competition which is
dedicated to handwritten document images organized in conjunction with ICFHR 2012 …

This paper presents a systematic literature review of image datasets for document image
analysis, focusing on historical documents, such as handwritten manuscripts and early …

This paper introduces a new image-based handwritten historical digit dataset named Arkiv
Digital Sweden (ARDIS). The images in ARDIS dataset are extracted from 15,000 Swedish …

Classification of gender from images of handwriting is an interesting research problem in
computerized analysis of handwriting. The correlation between handwriting and gender of …

The ICDAR 2017 Competition on Historical Document Writer Identification is dedicated to
record the most recent advances made in the field of writer identification. The goal of the …

This competition investigates the performance of large-scale retrieval of historical document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 …

In multi-label recognition tasks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can extract rich
features of images in Euclidean space. However, CNNs struggle to handle dependencies …

Numeral recognition is treated as a benchmark research problem as this is a basic module
for designing a comprehensive optical character recognition system. In this context …

This study addresses the problem of identifying the authorship of historical manuscripts, a
challenging task that offers interesting applications for document examiners and …