ICFHR2014 Competition on Arabic Writer Identification Using AHTID/MW and KHATT Databases

Fouad Slimane; Sameh Awaida; Anis Mezghani; Mohammad Tanvir Parvez; Slim Kanoun; Sabri A. Mahmoud; Volker Märgner

doi:10.1109/ICFHR.2014.139

ICFHR2014 Competition on Arabic Writer Identification Using AHTID/MW and KHATT Databases

Fouad Slimane, Sameh Awaida, Anis Mezghani, Mohammad Tanvir Parvez, Slim Kanoun, Sabri A. Mahmoud, Volker Märgner

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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Abstract

This paper describes the first edition of the Arabic writer identification competition using AHTID/MW and KHATT databases held in the context of the 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2014). This competition has used the new freely available Arabic Handwritten Text Images Database written by Multiple Writers (AHTID/MW) and the Arabic handwritten text database called KHATT presented in ICFHR2012. We propose three tasks in this Arabic writer identification competition: the first and second are based respectively on word and text line level using the AHTID/MW database and the third one is paragraph based using the KHATT database. We received one system for the second task, three systems for the third task and none for the first task. All systems are tested in a blind manner using a set of images kept internal. A short description of the participating groups, their systems, the experimental setup, and the observed results are presented.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2014
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	797-802
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479943340
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR.2014.139
State	Published - 9 Dec 2014

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Name	Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR
Volume	2014-December
ISSN (Print)	2167-6445
ISSN (Electronic)	2167-6453

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Keywords

AHTID/MW database
KHATT database
competition
writer identification

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Computer Science Applications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Slimane, F., Awaida, S., Mezghani, A., Parvez, M. T., Kanoun, S., Mahmoud, S. A., & Märgner, V. (2014). ICFHR2014 Competition on Arabic Writer Identification Using AHTID/MW and KHATT Databases. In Proceedings - 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2014 (pp. 797-802). Article 6981118 (Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR; Vol. 2014-December). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR.2014.139

Slimane, Fouad ; Awaida, Sameh ; Mezghani, Anis et al. / ICFHR2014 Competition on Arabic Writer Identification Using AHTID/MW and KHATT Databases. Proceedings - 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. pp. 797-802 (Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR).

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ICFHR2014 Competition on Arabic Writer Identification Using AHTID/MW and KHATT Databases. / Slimane, Fouad; Awaida, Sameh; Mezghani, Anis et al.
Proceedings - 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 797-802 6981118 (Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR; Vol. 2014-December).

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Slimane F, Awaida S, Mezghani A, Parvez MT, Kanoun S, Mahmoud SA et al. ICFHR2014 Competition on Arabic Writer Identification Using AHTID/MW and KHATT Databases. In Proceedings - 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2014. p. 797-802. 6981118. (Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR). doi: 10.1109/ICFHR.2014.139

ICFHR2014 Competition on Arabic Writer Identification Using AHTID/MW and KHATT Databases

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