A comprehensive survey of handwritten document benchmarks: structure, usage and evaluation

R Hussain, A Raza, I Siddiqi, K Khurshid… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2015 - Springer
Handwriting has remained one of the most frequently occurring patterns that we come
across in everyday life. Handwriting offers a number of interesting pattern classification …

Age, gender and handedness prediction from handwriting using gradient features

N Bouadjenek, H Nemmour… - 2015 13th international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work introduces two gradient features for writer's gender, handedness, and age range
prediction. The first feature is the Histogram of Oriented Gradients, which highlights the …

ICDAR2015 competition on multi-script writer identification and gender classification using 'QUWI'database

C Djeddi, S Al-Maadeed, A Gattal… - 2015 13th …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This competition targets writer identification and gender classification from offline
handwritten documents using the QUWI database. The most interesting aspect of the …

Histogram of Oriented Gradients for writer's gender, handedness and age prediction

N Bouadjenek, H Nemmour… - … on Innovations in …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work focuses on automatic prediction of the writer's biometrics including gender,
handedness and age information. The proposed prediction system is based on the use of …

National characteristics and variation in Arabic handwriting

AAN Al-Hadhrami, M Allen, C Moffatt… - Forensic Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
From each of four Arabic countries; Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan and Oman, 150 participants
produced handwriting samples which were examined to assess whether national …

End-Shape Analysis for Automatic Segmentation of Arabic Handwritten Texts

A Jamal - 2015 - spectrum.library.concordia.ca
Word segmentation is an important task for many methods that are related to document
understanding especially word spotting and word recognition. Several approaches of word …