A new dataset of word-level offline handwritten numeral images from four official Indic scripts and its benchmarking using image transform fusion
by Sk Md Obaidullah; Chayan Halder; Nibaran Das; Kaushik Roy
International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), Vol. 4, No. 1, 2016

Abstract: Handwritten document image dataset development is one of the most tedious and time consuming tasks in optical character recogniser (OCR) related experimental work. Special attention need to be given in terms of feasibility, realness, clarity etc. while collecting real life data from different writers. Few efforts can be found in the literature for development of handwritten NIdb (numeral image dataset) but they were restricted on single script which is a local script of the fellow researcher who prepared the database. In this paper, an approach to develop word-level handwritten NIdb of four popular Indic scripts namely Bangla, Devanagari, Roman and Urdu has been proposed. Benchmark result is developed with respect to handwritten numeral script identification (HNSI) problem by applying a novel image transform fusion (ITF) based technique. The proposed dataset will be freely available to the researchers for non-commercial use.

Online publication date: Tue, 02-Feb-2016

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