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Offline writer identification using K-adjacent segments

  • University of Maryland, College Park

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Abstract

This paper presents a method for performing offline writer identification by using K-adjacent segment (KAS) features in a bag-of-features framework to model a user's handwriting. This approach achieves a top 1 recognition rate of 93% on the benchmark IAM English handwriting dataset, which outperforms current state of the art features. Results further demonstrate that identification performance improves as the number of training samples increase, and additionally, that the performance of the KAS features extend to Arabic handwriting found in the MADCAT dataset.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2011
Pages769-773
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2011 - Beijing, China
Duration: Sep 18 2011Sep 21 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
ISSN (Print)1520-5363

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period09/18/1109/21/11

Keywords

  • Codebook
  • Document Forensics
  • Handwriting
  • K-Adjacent Segments
  • Local Features
  • Writer Identification

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