Introduction
Writer identification is important for forensic analysis, helping experts to deliberate on the authenticity of documents.
Following the successful organization of two writer identification contests in the framework of ICDAR 2011 (see references below), we organize the ICFHR 2012 Writer Identification Contest in order to record recent advances in the field of writer identification. This contest is set up around two challenges mainly differing in the involved scripts.
Although participants can choose to compete in any of these challenges, they are strongly encouraged to compete in both of them. This will allow us to perform meaningful comparisons, while it only involves minimal effort from the participants. For more information, please visit the individual challenge websites.
Last but not least: the submitted systems will be compared against a set of state-of-the-art methods in writer identification in both challenges.
References
G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos and B. Gatos, ICDAR 2011 Writer Identification Contest, in Proccedings of the 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), pp.1475-1479, Beijing, China.
A. Hassaïne, S. Al-Maadeed, J. M. Alja'am, A. Jaoua and A. Bouridane, The ICDAR2011 Arabic Writer Identification Contest, in Proccedings of the 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), pp.1470-1474, Beijing, China.
Contact Information
Challenge 1
Georgios Louloudis, Basilis Gatos, Nikolaos Stamatopoulos
Computational Intelligence Laboratory, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, GreeceChallenge 2
Abdelâali Hassaïne and Somaya Al-Ma'adeed
Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Research Group, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar