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User-assisted alignment of arabic historical manuscripts (2011)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Israel, Beer Sheva Asi, Abedelkadir Rabaev, Irina El-Sana, Jihad Kedem, Klara |
| Abstract | This work aims to simplify the tiresome manual compari-son of two similar Arabic historical manuscripts. We devel-oped a system that determines the difference between two manuscripts by comparing their components, while ignor-ing page breaks and different warping among consecutive rows; i.e., we treat each manuscript as one long row of com-ponents. We compare two components (blocks of pixels) by extracting features from the columns of their bounding rectangles. We adopted the edit distance, which is com-puted using dynamic time warping (DTW) on the feature domain, to measure similarity between components. The user selects the region to align in two manuscripts and the system return its alignment with visual clues that indicate the distance between the aligned components. In our cur-rent implementation, our system provides good results and requires less interaction for manuscripts at good quality that do not include touching components. We tested our system on different Arabic manuscripts of various qualities and re-ceived encouraging results. |
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| Publisher Date | 2011-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Proceeding Conference Proceedings |
