Text-independent writer recognition using multi-script handwritten texts

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1196-1202

  Djeddi, Chawki ^a,b   Siddiqi, Imran ^c   Souici Meslati, Labiba ^b   Ennaji, Abdellatif ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEBESSA   (Algeria)

^b BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

^c BAHRIA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Multi script environment; Run length features; Short handwritten texts; Writer identification; Writer verification

Indexed keywords

HANDWRITTEN TEXTS; MULTI-SCRIPT ENVIRONMENT; RUN-LENGTH FEATURES; WRITER IDENTIFICATION; WRITER VERIFICATION;

LINGUISTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84876903975     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2013.03.020     Document Type: Article

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