Publication detail
Character-based Writer Verification of Ancient Hebrew Square-script Manuscripts: On Edge-direction Feature
TOBING, T. ŠKRABÁNEK, P. YILDIRIM, S. GEORGE, S. ELGVIN, T.
English title
Character-based Writer Verification of Ancient Hebrew Square-script Manuscripts: On Edge-direction Feature
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Original abstract
Handwriting significantly contributes to the task of the writer identification and verification of modern and historical documents. This work developed a writer verification system for ancient Hebrew square-script manuscripts, mainly based on the edge-direction feature. Two configurations within the proposed system are carried out, i.e., character-based edge-direction feature extraction and extraction techniques of handwriting shape representation that may drive the system performance. A classification-based verification approach, utilizing Support Vector Machine (SVM) as the classifier, is employed to evaluate the performance of the two configurations. This study has confirmed that the skeleton-based shape representation technique outperforms the edge detection technique used in the predecessor approach. Furthermore, a character-based writer verification system provides the corresponding scholars and experts with an alphabetical investigation to identify the uniqueness of each writer’s handwriting.
English abstract
Handwriting significantly contributes to the task of the writer identification and verification of modern and historical documents. This work developed a writer verification system for ancient Hebrew square-script manuscripts, mainly based on the edge-direction feature. Two configurations within the proposed system are carried out, i.e., character-based edge-direction feature extraction and extraction techniques of handwriting shape representation that may drive the system performance. A classification-based verification approach, utilizing Support Vector Machine (SVM) as the classifier, is employed to evaluate the performance of the two configurations. This study has confirmed that the skeleton-based shape representation technique outperforms the edge detection technique used in the predecessor approach. Furthermore, a character-based writer verification system provides the corresponding scholars and experts with an alphabetical investigation to identify the uniqueness of each writer’s handwriting.
Keywords in English
writer verification; edge-direction feature; edge detection; ancient manuscript
Released
23.06.2023
ISBN
978-0-89208-362-6
Book
Archiving Conference
Pages from–to
155–158
Pages count
4
BIBTEX
@inproceedings{BUT185701,
author="Tabita Lumban {Tobing} and Pavel {Škrabánek} and Sule {Yildirim} and Sony {George} and Torleif {Elgvin},
title="Character-based Writer Verification of Ancient Hebrew Square-script Manuscripts: On Edge-direction Feature",
booktitle="Archiving Conference",
year="2023",
month="June",
pages="155--158",
isbn="978-0-89208-362-6"
}