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On-line Arabic handwriting recognition competition

ADAB database and participating systems

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This paper describes the on-line Arabic handwriting recognition competition held at tenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR in Proceedings of the 10th international conference on document analysis and recognition, vol 3, pp 1388–1392, 2009). This first competition uses the so-called ADAB database with Arabic on-line handwritten words. At this first competition, 3 groups with 7 different systems have participated. The systems were tested on known data (training datasets made available for the participants, sets 1 to 3) and on one test dataset that is unknown to all participants (set 4). The systems are compared on the most important characteristic of classification systems, the recognition rate. Additionally, the relative speed of the different systems was compared. A short description of the participating groups, their systems, the experimental setup, and the performed results is presented.

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  1. Institute for Communications Technology (IfN), Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Schleinitzstrasse 22, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany

    Haikal El Abed & Volker Märgner

  2. REGIM: Research Group on Intelligent Machines, National School of Engineers (ENIS), University of Sfax, BP 1173, 3038, Sfax, Tunisia

    Monji Kherallah & Adel M. Alimi

  3. Facultè des Sciences de Sfax, Universitè de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Monji Kherallah

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El Abed, H., Kherallah, M., Märgner, V. et al. On-line Arabic handwriting recognition competition. IJDAR 14, 15–23 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-010-0124-6

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