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Writers Identification Based on Multiple Windows Features Mining

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Now a days, writer identification is at high demand to identify the original writer of the script at high accuracy. The one of the main challenge in writer identification is how to extract the discriminative features of different authors’ scripts to classify precisely. In this paper, the adaptive division method on the offline Latin script has been implemented using several variant window sizes. Fragments of binarized text a set of features are extracted and classified into clusters in the form of groups or classes. Finally, the proposed approach in this paper has been tested on various parameters in terms of text division and window sizes. It is observed that selection of the right window size yields a well positioned window division. The proposed approach is tested on IAM standard dataset (IAM, Institut für Informatik und angewandte Mathematik, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland) that is a constraint free script database. Finally, achieved results are compared with several techniques reported in the literature.

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  1. Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

    Murad Saadi Fadhil & Mohammed Hazim Alkawaz

  2. Faculty of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq

    Mohammed Hazim Alkawaz

  3. College of Computer and Information Systems, Al-Yamamah University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Amjad Rehman

  4. College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, 11583, Saudi Arabia

    Tanzila Saba

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Fadhil, M.S., Alkawaz, M.H., Rehman, A. et al. Writers Identification Based on Multiple Windows Features Mining. 3D Res 7, 8 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13319-016-0087-6

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