Analysis of Handwriting Individuality Using Word Features

  • Authors:
  • Bin Zhang;Sargur N. Srihari

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Analysis of allographs (characters) and allograph combinations(words) is the key for obtaining the discriminatingelements of handwriting. While allographs usually inhabitin words and segregation of a word into allographs ismore subjective than objective, especially for cursive writing,analysis of handwritten words is a natural and betteroption. In this study, a handwritten word image is characterizedby gradient, structural, and concavity features, andindividuality of handwritten words is experimented throughwritership identification and verification on over 12,000word images extracted from 3000 handwriting samples of1000 individuals in U.S.. Experimental results show thathandwritten words are very effective in differentiating handwritingand carry more individuality than most handwrittencharacters (allographs).