18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06) Volume 2
Offline Cursive Character Challenge: a New Benchmark for Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Algorithms.
Hong Kong
August 20-August 24
ISBN: 0-7695-2521-0
Cursive character recognition is a challenging task due to high variability and intrinsic ambiguity of cursive letters. This paper presents C-Cube (Cursive Character Challenge), a new public-domain cursive character database. CCube contains 57293 cursive characters manually extracted from cursive handwritten words, including both upper and lower case versions of each letter. The database can be downoloaded from the web and it provides predefined experimental protocols in order to compare rigorously the results obtained by different researchers.
Citation:
Francesco Camastra, Marco Spinetti, Alessandro Vinciarelli, "Offline Cursive Character Challenge: a New Benchmark for Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Algorithms.," icpr, vol. 2, pp.913-916, 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06) Volume 2, 2006