This paper presents a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based page
segmentation method for handwritten historical document images. We consider
page segmentation as a pixel labeling problem, i.e., each pixel is classified
as one of the predefined classes. Traditional methods in this area rely on
carefully hand-crafted features or large amounts of prior knowledge. In
contrast, we propose to learn features from raw image pixels using a CNN. While
many researchers focus on developing deep CNN architectures to solve different
problems, we train a simple CNN with only one convolution layer. We show that
the simple architecture achieves competitive results against other deep
architectures on different public datasets. Experiments also demonstrate the
effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method compared to previous
methods.

本文提出了一种基于卷积神经网络的手写历史文档图像页面分割方法，将页面分割视为像素标记问题，使用卷积神经网络从原始图像像素中学习特征，经实验验证，在不同的公共数据集上，该方法对比之前的方法，取得了更加有效和卓越的结果。