ICDAR 2013 Document Image Skew Estimation Contest (DISEC 2013)

The detection and correction of document skew is one of the most important document image analysis steps. The ICDAR2013 Document Image Skew Estimation Contest (DISEC'13) is the first contest which is dedicated to record recent advances in the field of skew estimation using well established evaluation performance measures on a variety of printed document images. The benchmarking dataset that is used contains 1550 images that were obtained from various sources such as newspapers, scientific books and dictionaries. The document images contain figures, tables, diagrams, architectural plans, electrical circuits and they are written in various languages such as English, Chinese and Greek. This paper describes the details of the contest including the evaluation measures used as well as the performance of the twelve methods submitted by ten different groups along with a short description of each method.

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