Classification of Hebrew Calligraphic Handwriting Styles: Preliminary Results

Itay Bar Yosef; Klara Kedem; Its'hak Dinstein; Malachi Belt-Arie; Edna Engel

doi:10.1109/DIAL.2004.1263258

Classification of Hebrew Calligraphic Handwriting Styles: Preliminary Results

Itay Bar Yosef
, Klara Kedem
, Its'hak Dinstein
, Malachi Belt-Arie
, Edna Engel

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Abstract

This paper presents preliminary results for document classification of ancient Hebrew manuscripts. The main goal is to analyze documents of different writing styles in order to identify the locations, the dates, and the writer of the test documents. This analysis depends crucially on good binarization of the corrupted manuscripts. We propose an accurate method for binarization of the manuscripts. We further propose and test topological features for handwriting style classification based a selected subset of the Hebrew alphabet. In our preliminary experiments we have used only two characters, the character Aleph and the character Lamed. Our results so far yield 100% correct classification of a set of fourteen documents written by fourteen different writers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries - DIAL 2004
Pages	299-305
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/DIAL.2004.1263258
State	Published - 4 May 2004
Event	Proceedings First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries DIAL 2004 - Palo Alto, CA, United States Duration: 23 Jan 2004 → 24 Jan 2004

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Name	Proceedings - First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries - DIAL 2004

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Conference	Proceedings First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries DIAL 2004
Country/Territory	United States
City	Palo Alto, CA
Period	23/01/04 → 24/01/04

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Yosef, I. B., Kedem, K., Dinstein, I., Belt-Arie, M., & Engel, E. (2004). Classification of Hebrew Calligraphic Handwriting Styles: Preliminary Results. In Proceedings First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries - DIAL 2004 (pp. 299-305). (Proceedings - First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries - DIAL 2004). https://doi.org/10.1109/DIAL.2004.1263258

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