ZoneMapAlt: An Alternative to the ZoneMap Metric for Zone Segmentation and Classification

This paper proposes a new evaluation metric based on the existing ZoneMap metric. The ZoneMap method, designed to perform a zone segmentation evaluation and classification, is considered in the context of OCR evaluation. Its limits are spotted, described and a new algorithm, ZoneMapAlt (ZoneMap Alternative) is proposed to solve the identified limits while keeping the properties of the original one. To validate the new metric, experiments have been made on a dataset of scientific articles. Results demonstrate that the ZoneMapAlt algorithm provides greater details on segmentation errors and is able to detect critical segmentation errors.