ICDAR 2023 CROHME: Competition on Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions

Yejing Xie, Harold Mouchère, Foteini Simistira Liwicki, Sumit Rakesh, Rajkumar Saini, Masaki Nakagawa, Cuong Tuan Nguyen, Thanh-Nghia Truong

Abstract: This paper overviews the 7th edition of the Competition on Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions. ICDAR 2023 CROHME proposes three tasks with three different modalities: on-line, off-line and bimodal. 3905 new handwritten equations have been collected to propose new training, validation and test sets for the two modalities. The complete training set includes previous CROHME training set extented with complementary off-line (from OffRaSHME competition) and on-line samples (generated). The evaluation is conducted using the same protocol as the previous CROHME, allowing a fair comparison with previous results. This competition allows for the first time the comparison of the on-line and off-line systems on the same test set. Six participating teams have been evaluated. Finally the same team won all 3 tasks with more than 80% of expression recognition rate.