Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Baseline Dependant Features and Hidden Markov Modeling

Authors:
Ramy El-Hajj;Laurence Likforman-Sulem;Chafic Mokbel
Affiliations:
University of Balamand, Lebanon;GET-Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France;University of Balamand, Lebanon
Venue:
ICDAR '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Year:
2005

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Abstract

In this paper we describe a 1D HMM off-line handwriting recognition system employing an analytical approach. The system is supported by a set of robust language independent features extracted on binary images. Parameters such as lower and upper baselines are used to derive a subset of baseline dependent features. Thus, word variability due to lower and upper parts of words is better taken into account. In addition, the proposed system learns character models without character pre-segmentation. Experiments that have been conducted on the benchmark IFN/ENIT database of Tunisian handwritten country/village names, show the advantage of the proposed approach and of the baseline- dependant features.