ICFHR 2016 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script - Dataset

The ICFHR2016 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script (CLaMM), jointly organized by Computer Scientists and Humanists (paleographers) provided a rich database of European medieval manuscripts to the community on Handwriting Analysis and Recognition.

The dataset's acronym CLaMM stands for Classification of Latin Medieval Manuscripts.

If you use this dataset, please cite:

Florence Cloppet, Véronique Eglin, Van Cuong Kieu, Dominique Stutzmann, and Nicole Vincent, "ICFHR2016 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script", Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Los Alamos : IEEE, 2016, p. 590-595. [https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR.2016.0113]

At this competition, we proposed two independent classification tasks which attracted five participants with seven submitted classifiers. Those classifiers are trained on a set of 2000 images with their ground truths. In the first task of script crisp classification, the classifiers have been evaluated on a test set of 1000 single-type manuscripts. In the second task of “Fuzzy Classification”, the classifiers have been carried out on a set of 2000 multi-script-type manuscripts.

The present dataset contains the training dataset, both test datasets (task 1 and task 2) and the matrices provided by the competitors. It was first published on a https://clamm.irht.cnrs.fr/icfhr2016-clamm/ in Oct. 2016.