TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic segmentation for Arabic characters in handwriting documents
AU - Lawgali, A.
AU - Bouridane, A.
AU - Angelova, M.
AU - Ghassemlooy, Z.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The cursive and ligature nature of the Arabic script make the segmentation of words into individual characters a difficult task. Despite attempts to apply methods for cursive Latin and other scripts to Arabic script, it is generally insufficient to segment the Arabic text. This paper proposes a new segmentation algorithm for the handwritten Arabic text and the main idea consists of segmenting the word into sub-words and then computing the baseline of each sub-word. Using the descenders of sub-words and the baseline, candidate points are then calculated using a vertical projection. The algorithm has been tested using 800 handwritten Arabic words taken from the IFN/ENIT database and a comparison made against some existing methods and promising results have been obtained.
AB - The cursive and ligature nature of the Arabic script make the segmentation of words into individual characters a difficult task. Despite attempts to apply methods for cursive Latin and other scripts to Arabic script, it is generally insufficient to segment the Arabic text. This paper proposes a new segmentation algorithm for the handwritten Arabic text and the main idea consists of segmenting the word into sub-words and then computing the baseline of each sub-word. Using the descenders of sub-words and the baseline, candidate points are then calculated using a vertical projection. The algorithm has been tested using 800 handwritten Arabic words taken from the IFN/ENIT database and a comparison made against some existing methods and promising results have been obtained.
KW - Arabic character segmentation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856305648&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6116476
U2 - 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116476
DO - 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116476
M3 - Conference publication
AN - SCOPUS:84856305648
SN - 9781457713033
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
SP - 3529
EP - 3532
BT - 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
T2 - 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011
Y2 - 11 September 2011 through 14 September 2011
ER -