ICDAR 2005 Arabic handwriting recognition competition

Author

Märgner, V. ; Pechwitz, M. ; Abed, H.E.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Commun. Technol., Tech. Univ. Braunschweig, Germany

fYear

2005

fDate

29 Aug.-1 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

70

Abstract

This paper describes the Arabic handwriting recognition competition for ICDAR 2005. With the presentation of the IFN/ENIT-database in the year 2002 a database with handwritten Arabic town names was made available for free to non commercial research groups. Till now more than 30 groups are working with this data worldwide. By announcing a competition of Arabic handwriting recognition systems based on the IFN/ENIT-database, we hope to contribute to the development of Arabic handwriting recognition systems. The use of the same database by different research groups allows the comparison of different systems. We compare the systems on the most important characteristic: recognition rate, but also features like word length, writing style, and character connectivity will be discussed.

Keywords

handwritten character recognition; natural languages; optical character recognition; Arabic handwriting recognition competition; ICDAR 2005; IFN-ENIT-database; Character recognition; Cities and towns; Communications technology; Frequency; Handwriting recognition; Optical character recognition software; Plasma welding; Spatial databases; Statistics; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 2005. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on

ISSN

1520-5263

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2420-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.2005.52

Filename

1575512