TY - GEN
T1 - A novel lexicon reduction method for arabic handwriting recognition
AU - Wshah, Safwan
AU - Govindaraju, Venu
AU - Cheng, Yanfen
AU - Li, Huiping
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In this paper, we present a method for lexicon size reduction which can be used as an important pre-processing for an off-line Arabic word recognition. The method involves extraction of the dot descriptors and PAWs (Piece of Arabic Word). Then the number and position of dots and the number of the PAWs are used to eliminate unlikely candidates. The extraction of the dot descriptors is based on defined rules followed by a convolutional neural network for verification. The reduction algorithm makes use of the combination of two features with a dynamic matching scheme. On IFN/ENIT database of 26459 Arabic handwritten word images we achieved a reduction rate of 87% with accuracy above 93%.
AB - In this paper, we present a method for lexicon size reduction which can be used as an important pre-processing for an off-line Arabic word recognition. The method involves extraction of the dot descriptors and PAWs (Piece of Arabic Word). Then the number and position of dots and the number of the PAWs are used to eliminate unlikely candidates. The extraction of the dot descriptors is based on defined rules followed by a convolutional neural network for verification. The reduction algorithm makes use of the combination of two features with a dynamic matching scheme. On IFN/ENIT database of 26459 Arabic handwritten word images we achieved a reduction rate of 87% with accuracy above 93%.
KW - Arabic offline handwritten
KW - Handwritten recognition
KW - Lexicon redeuction
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/78149482381
U2 - 10.1109/ICPR.2010.702
DO - 10.1109/ICPR.2010.702
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78149482381
SN - 9780769541099
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
SP - 2865
EP - 2868
BT - Proceedings - 2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2010
T2 - 2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2010
Y2 - 23 August 2010 through 26 August 2010
ER -