caa a22 4500 445379448 CHVBK 20180317143012.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10032-010-0117-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10032-010-0117-5 ICDAR 2009-Arabic handwriting recognition competition [Elektronische Daten] [Haikal El Abed, Volker Märgner] This paper describes the Arabic handwriting recognition competition held at ICDAR 2009. This third competition (the first two were held at ICDAR 2005 and 2007, respectively) again used the IfN/ENIT-database with Arabic handwritten Tunisian town names. This very successful database is used today by more than 82 research groups from universities, research centers, and industries worldwide. At ICDAR 2009, 7 groups with 17 systems participated in the competition. The system evaluation was made on one known dataset and on two datasets unknown to the participants. The systems were compared based on the recognition rates achieved. Additionally, the relative speeds of the systems were compared. A description of the participating groups, their systems, and the results achieved are presented. As a very important result of this competition, a continuous improvement of the recognition rate from competition to competition of more than 5% can be observed. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Arabic handwritten word recognition nationallicence Evaluation nationallicence Competition nationallicence El Abed Haikal Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN), Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Schleinitzstrasse 22, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany aut Märgner Volker Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN), Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Schleinitzstrasse 22, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany aut International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) Springer-Verlag 14/1(2011-03-01), 3-13 1433-2833 14:1<3 2011 14 10032 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-010-0117-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-010-0117-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- El Abed Haikal Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN), Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Schleinitzstrasse 22, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Märgner Volker Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN), Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Schleinitzstrasse 22, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) Springer-Verlag 14/1(2011-03-01), 3-13 1433-2833 14:1<3 2011 14 10032 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer