Title :
The ICDAR2011 Arabic Writer Identification Contest
Author :
Abdelaali Hassaïne;Somaya Al-Maadeed;Jihad Mohamad Alja´am;Ali Jaoua;Ahmed Bouridane
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. &
Abstract :
Arabic writer identification is a very active research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare recent advances in Arabic writer identification. This competition was hosted by Kaggle, it has attracted thirty participants from both academia and industry. This paper gives details on this competition, including the evaluation procedure, description of participating methods and their performances.
Keywords :
"Training","Educational institutions","Handwriting recognition","Text analysis","Feature extraction","Image edge detection","Support vector machines"
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1350-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.2011.292
