ICDAR 2011 Chinese handwriting recognition competition

Cheng Lin Liu*, Fei Yin, Qiu Feng Wang, Da Han Wang

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Abstract

In the Chinese handwriting recognition competition organized with the ICDAR 2011, four tasks were evaluated: offline and online isolated character recognition, offline and online handwritten text recognition. To enable the training of recognition systems, we announced the large databases CASIA-HWDB/OLHWDB. The submitted systems were evaluated on un-open datasets to report character-level correct rates. In total, we received 25 systems submitted by eight groups. On the test datasets, the best results (correct rates) are 92.18% for offline character recognition, 95.77% for online character recognition, 77.26% for offline text recognition, and 94.33% for online text recognition, respectively. In addition to the evaluation results, we provide short descriptions of the recognition methods and have brief discussions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2011
Pages1464-1469
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2011 - Beijing, China
Duration: 18 Sept 201121 Sept 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
ISSN (Print)1520-5363

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period18/09/1121/09/11

Keywords

  • Chinese handwriting recognition competition
  • handwritten text recognition
  • isolated character recongition
  • offline
  • online

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