Title :
Text-Independent Writer Identification and Verification on Offline Arabic Handwriting
Author :
Bulacu, Marius ; Schomaker, Lambert ; Brink, Axel
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Groningen, Groningen
Abstract :
In this paper, we evaluate the performance on Arabic handwriting of the text-independent writer identification methods that we developed and tested on Western script in recent years. We use the IFN/ENIT data in the experiments reported here and our tests involve 350 writers. The results show that our methods are very effective and the conclusions drawn in previous studies remain valid also on Arabic script. High performance is achieved by combining textural features (joint directional probability distributions) with allographic features (grapheme-emission distributions).
Keywords :
handwriting recognition; statistical distributions; PDF; allographic features; grapheme-emission distributions; joint directional probability distributions; offline Arabic handwriting; probability density functions; text-independent writer identification; text-independent writer verification; textural features; Artificial intelligence; Cultural differences; Data mining; Image databases; Information analysis; Information resources; Probability distribution; Shape; Spatial databases; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 2007. ICDAR 2007. Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Parana
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2822-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4377019