How to Define Local Shape Descriptors for Writer Identification and Verification

Imran Siddiqi, Nicole Vincent

2008

Abstract

This paper presents an effective method for writer identification and verification in handwritten documents. The idea is that within a handwritten text, there exist certain redundant patterns that a particular writer would use frequently as he writes and these forms could be exploited to recognize the au- thorship of a document. To extract these patterns, the text is divided into a large number of small sub-images and a set of shape descriptors is extracted from each. Similar patterns are then clustered together for which a number of clustering techniques have been evaluated. The writer of the unknown document is identified by Bayesian classifier. The system trained and tested on 55 docu- ments of the same number of authors, exhibited promising results.

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Siddiqi I. and Vincent N. (2008). How to Define Local Shape Descriptors for Writer Identification and Verification . In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-42-5, pages 199-204. DOI: 10.5220/0001729301990204


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@conference{pris08,
author={Imran Siddiqi and Nicole Vincent},
title={How to Define Local Shape Descriptors for Writer Identification and Verification},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={199-204},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001729301990204},
isbn={978-989-8111-42-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2008)
TI - How to Define Local Shape Descriptors for Writer Identification and Verification
SN - 978-989-8111-42-5
AU - Siddiqi I.
AU - Vincent N.
PY - 2008
SP - 199
EP - 204
DO - 10.5220/0001729301990204