Using codebooks of fragmented connected-component contours in forensic and historic writer identification

Authors:
Lambert Schomaker;Katrin Franke;Marius Bulacu
Affiliations:
AI Institute, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstr. 2/1, NL-9712 TS, Groningen, The Netherlands;Fraunhofer IPK, Pascalstr. 8-9, D-10587, Berlin, Germany;AI Institute, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstr. 2/1, NL-9712 TS, Groningen, The Netherlands
Venue:
Pattern Recognition Letters
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Recent advances in 'off-line' writer identification allow for new applications in handwritten text retrieval from archives of scanned historical documents. This paper describes new algorithms for forensic or historical writer identification, using the contours of fragmented connected-components in free-style handwriting. The writer is considered to be characterized by a stochastic pattern generator, producing a family of character fragments (fraglets). Using a codebook of such fraglets from an independent training set, the probability distribution of fraglet contours was computed for an independent test set. Results revealed a high sensitivity of the fraglet histogram in identifying individual writers on the basis of a paragraph of text. Large-scale experiments on the optimal size of Kohonen maps of fraglet contours were performed, showing usable classification rates within a non-critical range of Kohonen map dimensions. The proposed automatic approach bridges the gap between image-statistics approaches and purely knowledge-based manual character-based methods.