Information Retrieval Based Writer Identification

  • Authors:
  • A. Bensefia;T. Paquet;L. Heutte

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

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

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Abstract

This communication deals with the Writer Identificationtask. Our previous work has shown the interest of usingthe graphemes as features for describing the individualproperties of Handwriting. We propose here to exploit thesame feature set but using an information retrievalparadigm to describe and compare the handwritten queryto each sample of handwriting in the database. Using thistechnique the image processing stage is performed onlyonce and before the retrieval process can take place, thusleading to a significant saving in the computation of eachquery response, compared to our initial proposition. Themethod has been tested on two handwritten databases.The first one has been collected from 88 different writersat PSI Lab. while the second one contains 39 writers fromthe original correspondence of Emile Zola, a famousFrench novelist of the last 19th century. We also analyzethe proposed method when using concatenation ofgraphemes (bi and tri-gramme) as features.