A Spanish dataset for reproducible benchmarked offline handwriting recognition.

In this paper, a public dataset for Offline Handwriting Recognition, along with an appropriate evaluation method to provide benchmark indicators at sentence level, is presented. This dataset, called SPA-Sentences, consists of offline handwritten Spanish sentences extracted from 1617 forms produced b...

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Publicado en:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 1009 - 1023
Autores principales: España-Boquera, Salvador, Castro-Bleda, Maria Jose
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2022
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          España-Boquera, Salvador
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        affil: VRAIN Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
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        Benchmarking
        Connectionist temporal classification (CTC)
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      ab: In this paper, a public dataset for Offline Handwriting Recognition, along with an appropriate evaluation method to provide benchmark indicators at sentence level, is presented. This dataset, called SPA-Sentences, consists of offline handwritten Spanish sentences extracted from 1617 forms produced by the same number of writers. A total of 13,691 sentences comprising around 100,000 word instances out of a vocabulary of 3288 words occur in the collection. Careful attention has been paid to make the baseline experiments both reproducible and competitive. To this end, experiments are based on state-of-the-art recognition techniques combining convolutional blocks with one-dimensional Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks using Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) decoding. The scripts with the entire experimental setting have been made available. The SPA-Sentences dataset and its baseline evaluation are freely available for research purposes via the institutional University repository. We expect the research community to include this corpus, as is usually done with English IAM and French RIMES datasets, in their battery of experiments when reporting novel handwriting recognition techniques.
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