ICDAR 2013 Chinese Handwriting Recognition Competition

This paper describes the Chinese handwriting recognition competition held at the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013). This third competition in the series again used the CASIAHWDB/OLHWDB databases as the training set, and all the submitted systems were evaluated on closed datasets to report character-level correct rates. This year, 10 groups submitted 27 systems for five tasks: classification on extracted features, online/offline isolated character recognition, online/offline handwritten text recognition. The best results (correct rates) are 93.89% for classification on extracted features, 94.77% for offline character recognition, 97.39% for online character recognition, 88.76% for offline text recognition, and 95.03% for online text recognition, respectively. In addition to the test results, we also provide short descriptions of the recognition methods and brief discussions on the results. Keywords—Chinese handwriting recognition competition; isolated character recongition; handwritten text recognition; offline; online; CASIA-HWDB/OLHWDB database.

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