ICFHR 2012 competition on handwritten document image binarization (H-DIBCO 2012)

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 817-822

  Pratikakis, Ioannis ^a   Gatos, Basilis ^b   Ntirogiannis, Konstantinos ^b,c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Binarization; Handwritten document image; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; DOCUMENT IMAGE BINARIZATION; EVALUATION MEASURES; EVALUATION PERFORMANCE; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT IMAGES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

EID: 84874249747     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR.2012.216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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