Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts -

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Editeur : Springer-Verlag London Ltd.

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/07/2012

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 612

Expédition : 1074

Dimensions : 24.1 x 16.0 x 3.8

ISBN : 1447140710

Résumé :
This Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts is the first book of its kind, specifically devoted to this emerging field. Topics and features: contains contributions from the leading researchers in the field; with a Foreword by Professor Bente Maegaard of the University of Copenhagen; presents a detailed overview of Arabic character recognition technology, covering a range of different aspects of pre-processing and feature extraction; reviews a broad selection of varying approaches, including HMM-based methods and a recognition system based on multidimensional recurrent neural networks; examines the evaluation of Arabic script recognition systems, discussing data collection and annotation, benchmarking strategies, and handwriting recognition competitions; describes numerous applications of Arabic script recognition technology, from historical Arabic manuscripts to online Arabic recognition.

Biographie:

Volker M?rgner is Academic Director of the Institute for Communications Technology (IfN) at Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany. He has over 30 years research experience in image processing, pattern recognition, and handwriting recognition. He developed the IfN/ENIT-database of Arabic handwritten names which is the reference for Arabic handwritten word recognition systems and organized competitions both together with Haikal El Abed.

Haikal El Abed is a Senior Research Engineer at the Institute for Communications Technology (IfN) at Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany. He has more than 10 years research experience in pattern recognition and Arabic text recognition, on-line and off-line. He organizes competitions and works on the collection of databases.

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Part I: Pre-Processing

An Assessment of Arabic Handwriting Recognition Technology Sargur N. Srihari and Gregory Ball

Layout Analysis of Arabic Script Documents Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait and Thomas M. Breuel

A Multi-Stage Approach to Arabic Document Analysis Eugene Borovikov and Ilya Zavorin

Pre-Processing Issues in Arabic OCR Zhixin Shi, Srirangaraj Setlur and Venu Govindaraju

Segmentation of Ancient Arabic Documents Abdel Bela?d and Nazih Ouwayed

Features for HMM-Based Arabic Handwritten Word Recognition Systems Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Ramy Al Hajj Mohammad, Chafic Mokbel, Fares Menasri, Anne-Laure Bianne-Bernard and Christopher Kermorvant

Part II: Recognition

Printed Arabic Text Recognition Irfan Ahmed, Sabri A. Mahmoud and Mohammed Tanvir Parvez

Handwritten Arabic Word Recognition Using the IFN/ENIT-Database Mario Pechwitz, Haikal El Abed and Volker M?rgner

RWTH OCR: A Large Vocabulary Optical Character Recognition System for Arabic Scripts Philippe Dreuw, David Rybach, Georg Heigold and Hermann Ney

Arabic Handwriting Recognition using Bernoulli HMMs Ihab Alkhoury, Adri? Gim?nez and Alfons Juan

Handwritten Farsi Words Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models Puntis Jifroodian and Ching Y. Suen

Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition with Multidimensional Recurrent Neural Networks Alex Graves

Application of Fractal Theory in Farsi/Arabic Document Analysis Saeed Mozaffari

Multi-Stream Markov Models for Arabic Handwriting Recognition Yousri Kessentini, Thierry Paquet and AbdelMajid Ben Hamadou

Towards Distributed Cursive Writing OCR Systems based on the Combination of Complementary Approaches Maher Khemakhem and Abdelfettah Belghith

Part III: Evaluation

Data Collection and Annotation for Arabic Document Analysis Ilya Zavorin and Eugene Borovikov

Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competitions Volker M?rgner and Haikal El Abed

Benchmarking Strategy for Arabic Screen Rendered Word Recognition Fouad Slimane, Slim Kanoun, Jean Hennebert, Rolf Ingold, Adel M. Alimi and Jean Hennebert

Part IV: Applications

A Robust Word Spotting System for Historical Arabic Manuscripts Mohamed Cheriet and Reza Farrahi Moghaddam

Arabic Text recognition using a Script-Independent Methodology: A Unified HMM-based Approach for Machine-print and Handwritten Text Premkumar Natarajan, Rohit Prasad, Huaigu Cao, Krishna Subramanian, Shirin Saleem, David Belanger, Shiv Vitaladevuni, Matin Kamali and Ehry MacRostie

Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using VDHMM and Over-Segmentation Amlan Kundu and Tom Hines

Online Arabic Databases and Applications Houcine Boubaker, Abdelkarim Elbaati, Najiba Tagougui, Haikal El Abed, Monji Kherallah and Adel M. Alimi

Online Arabic Handwritten Words Recognition Based on HMM and Combination of Online and Offline Features Sherif Abdelazeem, Hesham M. Eraqi and Hany Ahmed