ICFHR2014 Competition on Handwritten Document Image Binarization (H-DIBCO 2014)

Document image binarization is an important step in the document image analysis and recognition pipeline. H-DIBCO 2014 is the International Document Image Binarization Competition which is dedicated to handwritten document images organized in conjunction with ICFHR 2014 conference. The objective of the contest is to identify current advances in handwritten document image binarization using meaningful evaluation performance measures. This paper reports on the contest details including the evaluation measures used as well as the performance of the 7 submitted methods along with a short description of each method.