A comprehensive survey of handwritten document benchmarks: structure, usage and evaluation
Raashid Hussain|Ahsen Raza|Imran Siddiqi|Khurram Khurshid|Chawki Djeddi
Handwriting has remained one of the most frequently occurring patterns that we come across in everyday life. offers a number interesting pattern classification problems including handwriting recognition, writer identification, signature verification, demographics and script etc. Research these similar related requires availability handwritten samples for validation developed techniques algorithms. Like any other scientific domain, recognition community large standard databases allowing development, evaluation comparison different variety tasks. This paper is intended to provide comprehensive survey during last two decades. In addition statistics discussed databases, also present on dimensions. The ground truth information along with supported tasks discussed. It expected this would not only allow researchers objectively compare but will them opportunity select appropriate database(s) their systems.
Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing