- Description: This competition will provide: (1) a benchmarking dataset for testing physical layout analysis solutions, which contains an annotated test set of scanned Arabic book page samples with a wide variety of content and appearance, and (2) a full evaluation scheme by offering code to compute a set of evaluation metrics to both analysis tasks (segmentation and classification) for quantitative evaluation, and to visually asses the analysis result for qualitative evaluation.
- License: Layout analysis
- Organisers: This competition will be organized by members of a joint team from Boston University USA, and Electronics Research Institute, Egypt: Randa Elanwar, Researcher, ERI (randa.elanwar@eri.sci.eg): for queries and suggestions Margrit Betke, Professor BU (betke@bu.edu) Rana S.M. Saad, Research assistant ERI (rana@eri.sci.eg): for questions or problems with annotations. Wenda Qin, M.S student BU (wdqin@bu.edu): for questions or problems with competition web page.
- Link: http://cs-people.bu.edu/wdqin/ASAR2018LayoutAnalysisCompetition/main.html