The Monk Line Segmentation (MLS) Dataset

Olarik Surinta, Lambert Schomaker, and Marco Wiering

Institution of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering (ALICE)
Autonomous Perceptive Systems (APS), University of Groningen

Overview

The MLS dataset available from this page consists of 31 handwritten page scans. The dataset contains medieval, historical and contemporary manuscripts, and has the purpose of testing line-segmentation algorithms. The collection contains a wide variation of the common problems in handwriting recognition: lines with overlapping ascenders/descenders, slightly rotated scans and curved base lines.

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Captain's logs, 1777	Provincial archive, 1855	Moscow Archives, 1672	Cabinet of the King, KdK 1893	Early 15th century

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The MLS dataset was collected from the Monk system as of Friday May 17 14:15:04 CEST 2013. It was collected by Lambert Schomaker in May 2013 at the Institution of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering (ALICE), University of Gronigen.

The tar.gz file contains the image dataset for historical manuscripts. For more details please refer to the README file in the tar.gz file. The dataset downloaded for research use only. © 2013 Copyright.

Download tar.gz file (58.9 MB) from ai.rug.nl

Citation

If you use this dataset please cite the following work:

@INPROCEEDINGS{Surinta:2014:ICFHR,
 	author = {O. Surinta and M. Holtkamp and M. F. Karaaba and JP. van Oosten and L. R. B. Schomaker and M. A. Wiering},
 	title = {A* Path Planning for Line Segmentation of Handwritten Documents},
	booktitle = {Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2014 14th International Conference on},
 	year = {2014},
	month = {Sep},
 	pages = {175-180},
 	numpages = {6},
 	isbn = {978-1-4799-4335-7},
	issn = {2167-6445},
	publisher = {IEEE},
 	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR.2014.37},
}

Related Publication

O. Surinta, M. Holtkamp, M.F. Karaaba, JP. van Oosten, L.R.B. Schomaker and M.A. Wiering, "A* Path Planning for Line Segmentation of Handwritten Documents," in Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2014 14th International Conference on, 2014. pp. 175-180. link poster pdf

Results of A* Path Planning for line segmentation of Handwritten documents

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