ICFHR2016 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script - dm-l

9 Mar 2016


      Dear colleagues and friends,
As part of the competitions organized for the 15th International Conference
on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, we organise a competition focussed
on (Latin) Medieval Scripts, as described here: ICFHR2016 Competition on
the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script | Écriture
médiévale & numérique http://oriflamms.hypotheses.org/1388
The challenge for Computer Scientists is to identify correctly the main
script types (e.g. uncial, caroline, textualis, humanistic), having two
aims in mind: 1) automated cataloguing in large digital libraries, not only
for whole volumes, but even at a page level; 2) preparing text recognition.
As many of you, we are well aware that the given categories are far from
representing the complexity and the dynamics, but it is a first step.
Best regards,
Dominique Stutzmann, Marlène Helias-Baron, Florence Cloppet, Véronique
Eglin, Nicole Vincent
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M. Dominique Stutzmann
Chargé de recherche à l'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes
(CNRS, UPR 841)