MHDID: A Multi-distortion Historical Document Image Database

Abstract

In this paper, a new dataset, called Multi-distortion Historical Document Image Database (MHDID), to be used for the research on quality assessment of degraded documents and degradation classification is proposed. The MHDID dataset contains 335 historical document images which are classified into four categories based on their distortion types, namely, paper translucency, stain, readers’ annotations and worn holes. A total of 36 subjects participated to judge the quality of ancient document images. Pair comparison rating (PCR) is utilized as a subjective rating method for evaluating the visual quality of degraded document images. For each distortion image a mean opinion score (MOS) value is computed. This dataset could be used for evaluating the image quality assessment (IQA) measures as well as in the design of new metrics.