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DIVA-HisDB

Introduced by Fotini Simistira et al. in DIVA-HisDB: A Precisely Annotated Large Dataset of Challenging Medieval Manuscripts23 Oct 2016 archive 2025-07-28

The database consists of 150 annotated pages of three different medieval manuscripts with challenging layouts. Furthermore, we provide a layout analysis ground-truth which has been iterated on, reviewed, and refined by an expert in medieval studies.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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First row (archive order)PaperCode
Semantic Segmentation DIVA-HisDB U-Net Mean IoU (class) 97.26 DIVA-DAF: A Deep Learning Framework for Historical... DIVA-DIA/DIVA-DAF 3 Compare
Text-Line Extraction DIVA-HisDB Semantic Seg Preprocessing Line IoU 99.42 Labeling, Cutting, Grouping: an Efficient Text Line... DIVA-DIA/Text-Line-Segmentation-Method-for-Medieval-Manuscripts 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

4 shown of 4 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 15. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

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Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

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