On the Recognition of Printed Characters of Any Font and Size
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A practical method for estimating fractal dimension
Pattern Recognition Letters
Optical Font Recognition Using Typographical Features
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
On calculation of fractal dimension of images
Pattern Recognition Letters
Font Recognition Based on Global Texture Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Graph Algorithms and Computer Vision
An Evolutionary Neuro-Fuzzy Approach to Recognize On-Line Arabic Handwriting
ICDAR '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Font Recognition and Contextual Processing for More Accurate Text Recognition
ICDAR '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
A study of document image degradation effects on font recognition
ICDAR '95 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (Volume 2) - Volume 2
Script and Nature Differentiation for Arabic and Latin Text Images
IWFHR '02 Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR'02)
High-order statistical texture analysis--font recognition applied
Pattern Recognition Letters
Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition
ICDAR '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Can Fractal Dimension Be Used In Font Classification
ICDAR '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Multi-Linguistic Optical Font Recognition Using Stroke Templates
ICPR '06 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 02
Character Independent Font Recognition on a Single Chinese Character
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
An EMD-based recognition method for Chinese fonts and styles
Pattern Recognition Letters
Offline recognition of omnifont Arabic text using the HMM ToolKit (HTK)
Pattern Recognition Letters
On-line Arabic handwriting recognition system based on visual encoding and genetic algorithm
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A comparison of fractal dimension estimators based on multiple surface generation algorithms
Computers & Geosciences
Contribution to the discrimination of the medieval manuscript texts: application in the palaeography
DAS'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Document Analysis Systems
Pattern Recognition Letters
Offline arabic handwritten text recognition: A Survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Arabic font recognition based on diacritics features
Pattern Recognition
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In this work, a new method is proposed to the widely neglected problem of Arabic font recognition, it uses global texture analysis. This method is based on fractal geometry, and the feature extraction does not depend on the document contents. In our method, we take the document as an image containing some specific textures and regard font recognition as texture identification. We have combined both techniques BCD (box counting dimension) and DCD (dilation counting dimension) to obtain the main features. The first expresses texture distribution in 2-D image. The second makes possible to take on the human vision system aspect, since it makes it possible to differentiate one font from another. Both features are expressed in a parametric form; then four features were kept. Experiments are carried out by using 1000 samples of 10 typefaces (each typeface is combined with four sizes). The average recognition rates are of about 96.2% using KNN (K nearest neighbor) and 98% using RBF (radial basic function). Experimental results are also included in the robustness of the method against written size, skew, image degradation (e.g., Gaussian noise) and resolution, and compared with the existing methods. The main advantages of our method are that (1) the dimension of feature vector is very low; (2) the variation sizes of the studied blocks (which are not standardized) are robust; (3) less samples are needed to train the classifier; (4) finally and the most important, is the first attempt to apply and adapt fractal dimensions to font recognition.