Evaluation and Ranking

Participants will be asked to provide results in the form of a text file. The file should have the same number of rows as the number of test images. For writer identification tasks, the first column should be the file name and the second column should be the ID of the writer recognized by the system. An example of expected file format is shown in the following.

test-001             0010

test-002             0250

test-003             0493

………

For gender classification tasks, the results are to be provided in a similar format in a text file. The first column should be the file name and the second column should be the gender predicted by the system. The output should be 1 for male writers and 0 for female writers as indicated in the following.

test-001              1

test-002              1

test-003              0

………

For handedness detection tasks, the results are to be provided in a similar format in a text file. The first column should be the file name and the second column should be the handedness predicted by the system. The output should be 1 for right-handed writers and 0 for left-handed writers as indicated in the following.

test-001              0

test-002              1

test-003              1

………

Results will be evaluated and the submitted algorithms will be ranked using the correct identification, classification and prediction rates.