29/03/2013 12/04/2013 Registration to the contest (since you have registered, you will receive all necessary data and will be informed of any updates, news etc.). Data from previous DIBCO series (i.e. handwritten document images along with the corresponding ground truth) are available in "Resources" section.
01/04/2013 15/04/2013 Submission of the required executable as well as a description of the participant's handwritten document image binarization methodology.
28/08/2013 Final contest results to be announced at the ICDAR 2013. A report on the competition will be published in the ICDAR 2013 conference proceedings.The testing dataset will be sent to all registered participants.