Handwriting is one of the most common types of questioned writing encountered and
frequently attracts the attention in litigation. Contrary to the physiological characteristics …

Ancient languages preserve the cultures and histories of the past. However, their study is
fraught with difficulties, and experts must tackle a range of challenging text-based tasks, from …

Writer identification from offline images of handwriting is an interesting pattern classification
problem that has been investigated for many decades now. Despite significant research …

This paper describes a method for robust offline writer identification. We propose to use
RootSIFT descriptors computed densely at the script contours. GMM supervectors are used …

Nowadays, there is a huge amount of Historical Arabic Documents (HAD) in the national
libraries and archives around the world. Analyzing this type of data manually is a difficult and …

The encoding of local features is an essential part for writer identification and writer retrieval.
While CNN activations have already been used as local features in related works, the …

Writer's identification from a handwritten text is one of the most challenging machines
learning problems because of the variable handwritten sources, various languages, the …

Arad is a well preserved desert fort on the southern frontier of the biblical kingdom of Judah.
Excavation of the site yielded over 100 Hebrew ostraca (ink inscriptions on potsherds) dated …

Determining the writer or transcriber of historical Arabic manuscripts has always been a
major challenge for researchers in the field of humanities. With the development of …

Writer recognition is to identify a person on the basis of handwriting, and great progress has
been achieved in the past decades. In this paper, we concentrate ourselves on the issue of …