Ethnozoology among the Berbers: pre-Islamic practices survive in the Rif (northwestern Africa)

A Budjaj, G Benítez, JM Pleguezuelos - Journal of Ethnobiology and …, 2021 - Springer
Background Ethnozoological knowledge is less documented than ethnobotanical. With this
field study, we aim to record and analyze the Riffian Berber knowledge about the use of …

Handwritten tifinagh character recognition using deep learning architectures

L Sadouk, T Gadi, EH Essoufi - … of the 1st international conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Tifinagh-IRCAM is the official alphabet of the Amazigh language which is widely used in
North Africa. Being normalized recently in 2001, Tifinagh remains a young alphabet and …

[PDF][PDF] Walsh, texture and GIST descriptors with Bayesian networks for recognition of Tifinagh characters

M Oujaoura, B Minaoui, M Fakir - International Journal of Computer …, 2013 - academia.edu
This paper provides an approach to automatically recognize the Tifinagh characters. The
proposed recognition system is based on Texture, Walsh transformation and GIST …

[PDF][PDF] Recognition of handwritten Amazigh characters based on zoning methods and MLP

N Aharrane, K El Moutaouakil, K Satori - WSEAS transactions on …, 2015 - wseas.us
The main purpose of this work is to develop an optical character recognition system (OCR)
of handwritten Amazigh characters employing a feature set of 79 elements based on …

Image labeling using geodesic features

A Criminisi, P Kontschieder, P Kohli… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Image labeling is described, for example, to recognize body organs in a medical image, to
label body parts in a depth image of a game player, to label objects in a video of a scene. In …

Spectral graph matching for printed tifinagh character

Y Ouadid, B Minaoui, M Fakir - 2016 13th International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical Character Recognition is one of the most important tools that contributes to facilitate
man-machine interaction. In this paper, we present an optical Tifinagh character recognition …

Tifinagh Printed Character Recognition through Structural Feature Extraction

Y Ouadid, M Fakir, B Minaoui - International Journal of Computer …, 2016 - igi-global.com
In this paper a system for the recognition of printed Tifinagh characters is presented. It is
divided into three main steps: preprocessing, feature extraction, and classification. Image …

Optical Character Recognition and Transcription of Berber Signs from Images in a Low-Resource Language Amazigh

L Corallo, AS Varde - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.13549, 2023 - arxiv.org
The Berber, or Amazigh language family is a low-resource North African vernacular
language spoken by the indigenous Berber ethnic group. It has its own unique alphabet …

[PDF][PDF] RECOGNITION OF HANDWRITTEN TIFINAGH CHARACTERS USING GRADIENT DIRECTION FEATURES.

L NIHARMINE, B OUTTAJ… - Journal of Theoretical & …, 2017 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT Optical Character Recognition system goal is to convert handwritten characters
input images to an editable text. Many OCR techniques have been developed by …

Tifinagh Character Recognition: A Survey

Y Ouadid, A Elbalaoui, M Fakir… - … on Computing Sciences …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is considered as one of the important tools that
contributes to the communication man-machine. It is the conversion process of printed or …