• DocumentCode
    3644318
  • Title

    The ICDAR2011 Arabic Writer Identification Contest

  • Author

    Abdelaali Hassaïne;Somaya Al-Maadeed;Jihad Mohamad Alja´am;Ali Jaoua;Ahmed Bouridane

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Sci. &
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1470
  • Lastpage
    1474
  • Abstract
    Arabic writer identification is a very active research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare recent advances in Arabic writer identification. This competition was hosted by Kaggle, it has attracted thirty participants from both academia and industry. This paper gives details on this competition, including the evaluation procedure, description of participating methods and their performances.
  • Keywords
    "Training","Educational institutions","Handwriting recognition","Text analysis","Feature extraction","Image edge detection","Support vector machines"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011 International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1520-5363
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1350-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICDAR.2011.292
  • Filename
    6065552
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3644318