ICDAR 2013 document image binarization contest (DIBCO 2013)

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1471-1476

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

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

document image binarisation; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

BINARISATION; DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION; DOCUMENT IMAGE BINARIZATION; EVALUATION MEASURES; EVALUATION PERFORMANCE; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT IMAGES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84889599994     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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