International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing (IJIGSP)
IJIGSP Vol. 8, No. 12, 8 Dec. 2016
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Graph Modeling based Segmentation of Handwritten Arabic Text into Constituent Sub-words
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Author(s)
Hashem Ghaleb
1,*
P. Nagabhushan
1
Umapada Pal
2
Index Terms
Arabic Handwriting Recognition, Arabic Sub-words, Sub-word Segmentation, Connected Component Extraction, Graph theoretic modeling
Abstract
Segmentation of Arabic text is a major challenge that shall be addressed by any recognition system. The cursive nature of Arabic writing makes it necessary to handle the segmentation issue at various levels. Arabic text line can be viewed as a sequence of words which in turn can be viewed as a sequence of sub-words. Sub-words have the frequently encountered intrinsic property of sharing the same vertical space which makes vertical projection based segmentation technique inefficient. In this paper, the task of segmenting handwritten Arabic text at sub-word level is taken up. The proposed algorithm is based on pulling away the connected components to overcome the impossibility of separating them by vertical projection based approach. Graph theoretic modeling is proposed to solve the problem of connected component extraction. In the sequel, these components are subjected to thorough analysis in order to obtain the constituent sub-words where a sub-word may consist of many components. The proposed algorithm was tested using variety of handwritten Arabic samples taken from different databases and the results obtained are encouraging.
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Hashem Ghaleb, P. Nagabhushan, Umapada Pal,"Graph Modeling based Segmentation of Handwritten Arabic Text into Constituent Sub-words", International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing(IJIGSP), Vol.8, No.12, pp.8-20, 2016. DOI: 10.5815/ijigsp.2016.12.02
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