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8 May 2012 Arabic writer identification based on diacritic's features
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Abstract
Natural languages like Arabic, Kurdish, Farsi (Persian), Urdu, and any other similar languages have many features, which make them different from other languages like Latin's script. One of these important features is diacritics. These diacritics are classified as: compulsory like dots which are used to identify/differentiate letters, and optional like short vowels which are used to emphasis consonants. Most indigenous and well trained writers often do not use all or some of these second class of diacritics, and expert readers can infer their presence within the context of the writer text. In this paper, we investigate the use of diacritics shapes and other characteristic as parameters of feature vectors for Arabic writer identification/verification. Segmentation techniques are used to extract the diacritics-based feature vectors from examples of Arabic handwritten text. The results of evaluation test will be presented, which has been carried out on an in-house database of 50 writers. Also the viability of using diacritics for writer recognition will be demonstrated.
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Makki Maliki, Naseer Al-Jawad, and Sabah A. Jassim "Arabic writer identification based on diacritic's features", Proc. SPIE 8406, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2012, 84060Y (8 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918542
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KEYWORDS
Feature extraction

Databases

Image processing

Image segmentation

Distributed interactive simulations

Algorithm development

Detection and tracking algorithms

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