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license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - image-segmentation
  - object-detection
  - mask-generation
version: 1.5.0
pretty_name: CATMuS Medieval Segmentation
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
tags:
  - layout-analysis
  - humanities
  - historical-documents

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Dataset Details

CATMuS Medieval Segmentation (Consistent Approaches to Transcribing Manuscripts) is a specialized dataset designed for layout analysis of medieval manuscripts using the SegmOnto vocabulary for region and line classification. This dataset addresses the challenges associated with establishing consistent ground truth in layout analysis tasks, particularly for the complex and heterogeneous historical sources of medieval manuscripts in Latin scripts from the 8th to the 15th century CE. It is a subset of the manuscript present in the CATMuS Medieval dataset, which focuses on HTR only.

The CATMuS dataset for layout analysis provides:

  • A uniform framework for annotation practices for the layout of medieval manuscripts.
  • A benchmarking environment for evaluating automatic layout analysis models across multiple dimensions thanks to some metadata (for now, century of production).
  • A benchmarking environment for other tasks (such as datation approaches).
  • A platform for exploratory work in computer vision and digital paleography focused on layout-based tasks, such as layout generation.

Developed through collaboration among various institutions and projects, CATMuS Medieval offers an inter-compatible dataset that spans over 200 manuscripts and incunabula in 10 different languages, containing a wealth of structural annotations using the SegmOnto vocabulary.

By ensuring consistency in layout analysis approaches, CATMuS aims to mitigate challenges arising from the diversity in standards for medieval manuscript analysis. It provides a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating layout analysis models on historical sources, facilitating advancements in the field of digital humanities.

Dataset Description

  • Curated by: Thibault Clérice (Inria)
  • Funded by: BnF Datalab, Biblissima +, DIM PAMIR
  • License: CC-BY 4.0

Documents

train dev test Total
images 1247 186 178 1611
manuscripts 147 19 28 194

Century coverage

As the number of images in each split. Images can represent two pages.

train dev test Total
Century:08 2 0 0 2
Century:09 111 1 0 112
Century:10 11 0 38 49
Century:11 24 0 0 24
Century:12 2 12 10 24
Century:13 219 9 20 248
Century:14 214 111 39 364
Century:15 542 36 19 597
Century:16 122 17 52 191

Lines

train dev test Total
Line:DefaultLine 78648 13357 12595 104600
Line:DropCapitalLine 1175 105 100 1380
Line:HeadingLine 1175 696 165 2036
Line:InterlinearLine 2801 27 2234 5062
Line:MusicLine 167 0 0 167
Line:TironianSignLine 282 0 0 282

Zones

train dev test Total
Zone:DamageZone 12 1 0 13
Zone:DigitizationArtefactZone 2 0 0 2
Zone:DropCapitalZone 1457 97 132 1686
Zone:GraphicZone 296 7 15 318
Zone:MainZone 2210 360 294 2864
Zone:MarginTextZone 847 135 199 1181
Zone:MusicZone 179 0 0 179
Zone:NumberingZone 591 98 95 784
Zone:QuireMarksZone 86 9 15 110
Zone:RunningTitleZone 301 91 18 410
Zone:SealZone 3 0 0 3
Zone:StampZone 35 5 5 45
Zone:TitlePageZone 4 1 2 7

Uses

Direct Use

  • Layout Analysis

Out-of-Scope Use

  • Text-To-Image

Dataset Structure

  • data contains 3 splits, which are loaded through load_dataset("CATMuS/medieval-segmentation"). They are the same split as Catmus Medieval (for HTR)
  • Each image is annotated with a
    • file_name (path from root)
    • shelfmark identifier
    • century datation information
    • project that originally produced the data
    • width of the page (in pixels)
    • height of the page (in pixels)
    • objects which contains sequences of values for each object found in the page:
      • id that are mainly used for parent relationship between blocks (such as columns) and lines
      • bbox (Shape: [x1, y1, x2, y2], top left to bottom right)
      • polygons (Shape: [x, y, x, y, x, y, ...])
      • category as a list of string using the first level of SegmOnto guidelines
      • type which is either block (area) or line.
      • parent which hold the id of the parent (is null for blocks, is nullable for line)

Annotations

Annotation process

The annotation process is described in the dataset paper.

Who are the annotators?

  • Pinche, Ariane
  • Clérice, Thibault
  • Chagué, Alix
  • Camps, Jean-Baptiste
  • Vlachou-Efstathiou, Malamatenia
  • Gille Levenson, Matthias
  • Brisville-Fertin, Olivier
  • Boschetti, Federico
  • Fischer, Franz
  • Gervers, Michael
  • Boutreux, Agnès
  • Manton, Avery
  • Gabay, Simon
  • Bordier, Julie
  • Glaise, Anthony
  • Alba, Rachele
  • Rubin, Giorgia
  • White, Nick
  • Karaisl, Antonia
  • Leroy, Noé
  • Maulu, Marco
  • Biay, Sébastien
  • Cappe, Zoé
  • Konstantinova, Kristina
  • Boby, Victor
  • Christensen, Kelly
  • Pierreville, Corinne
  • Aruta, Davide
  • Lenzi, Martina
  • Le Huëron, Armelle
  • Possamaï, Marylène
  • Duval, Frédéric
  • Mariotti, Violetta
  • Morreale, Laura
  • Nolibois, Alice
  • Foehr-Janssens, Yasmina
  • Deleville, Prunelle
  • Carnaille, Camille
  • Lecomte, Sophie
  • Meylan, Aminoel
  • Ventura, Simone
  • Dugaz, Lucien

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

The data are skewed toward Old French, Middle Dutch and Spanish, specifically from the 14th century.

The only language that is represented over all centuries is Latin, and in each scripts. The other language with a coverage close to Latin is Old French.

Only one document is available in Old English.

Citation

BibTeX:

@unpublished{clerice:hal-04453952,
  TITLE = {{CATMuS Medieval: A multilingual large-scale cross-century dataset in Latin script for handwritten text recognition and beyond}},
  AUTHOR = {Cl{\'e}rice, Thibault and Pinche, Ariane and Vlachou-Efstathiou, Malamatenia and Chagu{\'e}, Alix and Camps, Jean-Baptiste and Gille-Levenson, Matthias and Brisville-Fertin, Olivier and Fischer, Franz and Gervers, Michaels and Boutreux, Agn{\`e}s and Manton, Avery and Gabay, Simon and O'Connor, Patricia and Haverals, Wouter and Kestemont, Mike and Vandyck, Caroline and Kiessling, Benjamin},
  URL = {https://inria.hal.science/hal-04453952},
  NOTE = {working paper or preprint},
  YEAR = {2024},
  MONTH = Feb,
  KEYWORDS = {Historical sources ; medieval manuscripts ; Latin scripts ; benchmarking dataset ; multilingual ; handwritten text recognition},
  PDF = {https://inria.hal.science/hal-04453952/file/ICDAR24___CATMUS_Medieval-1.pdf},
  HAL_ID = {hal-04453952},
  HAL_VERSION = {v1},
}

APA:

Thibault Clérice, Ariane Pinche, Malamatenia Vlachou-Efstathiou, Alix Chagué, Jean-Baptiste Camps, et al.. CATMuS Medieval: A multilingual large-scale cross-century dataset in Latin script for handwritten text recognition and beyond. 2024. ⟨hal-04453952⟩

Dataset Card Contact

Thibault Clérice ([email protected])