This dataset was used in the ICDAR2019 Competition on Image Retrieval for Historical Handwritten Documents (ICDAR-2019-HDRC-IR).
The dataset consists of 20 000 document images representing about 10 000 writers, divided in three types: writers of (i) manuscript books, (ii) letters, (iii) charters...
For this year's ICFHR'20, we organize a large-scale image retrieval competition. The task is to find fragments of the same image/from the same writer given a query fragment. To train your system, we created a 100k large training set of fragments. This competition is co-organized by the IRHT/CNRS. F...