TY  - CONF
AU  - D. Perez
AU  - L. Tarazon
AU  - N. Serrano
AU  - F.M. Castro
AU  - Oriol Ramos Terrades
AU  - A. Juan
A2  - ICDAR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - The GERMANA Database
BT  - 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
SP  - 301
EP  - 305
N2  - A new handwritten text database, GERMANA, is presented to facilitate empirical comparison of different approaches to text line extraction and off-line handwriting recognition. GERMANA is the result of digitising and annotating a 764-page Spanish manuscript from 1891, in which most pages only contain nearly calligraphed text written on ruled sheets of well-separated lines. To our knowledge, it is the first publicly available database for handwriting research, mostly written in Spanish and comparable in size to standard databases. Due to its sequential book structure, it is also well-suited for realistic assessment of interactive handwriting recognition systems. To provide baseline results for reference in future studies, empirical results are also reported, using standard techniques and tools for preprocessing, feature extraction, HMM-based image modelling, and language modelling.
SN  - 1520-5363
SN  - 978-1-4244-4500-4
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2009.10
N1  - DAG
ID  - D. Perez2009
ER  -