ICFHR 2018 Competition on Handwritten Document Image Binarization (H-DIBCO 2018)

H-DIBCO 2018 is the international Handwritten Document Image Binarization Contest organized in the context of ICFHR 2018 conference. The general objective of the contest is to record recent advances in document image binarization using established evaluation performance measures. This paper describes the contest details including the evaluation measures used as well as the performance of the 8 submitted methods along with a brief description of each method.