A new framework for efficient and flexible analysis of the performance of document image analysis subsystems

摘要

Algorithms in various fields of Image Analysis have matured over the years and yet more new algorithms are being developed claiming to outperform existing ones. Frequently, each algorithm is devised with a specific application in mind and isfine-tuned to the test image data set used by its authors, thus making a direct comparison with other algorithms difficult. The need for objective evaluation of the performance of Image Analysis algorithms is now widely acknowledged and a number oftechniques have been devised for various subsystems, e.g., see Bower and Phillips (I).