NDLI: Cursive Handwritten Segmentation and Recognition for Instructional Videos

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Imran, A.S. Chanda, S. Cheikh, F.A. Franke, K. Pal, U.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	In this paper, we address the issues pertaining to segmentation and recognition of cursive handwritten text from chalkboard lecture videos. Recognizing handwritten text is a challenging problem in instructor-led lecture video. The task gets even tougher with varying handwriting styles and blackboard type. Unlike handwritten text on whiteboard and electronic boards, chalkboard represents serious challenges such as, lack of uniform edge density, weak chalk contrast against blackboard and leftover chalk dust noise as a result of erasing -- and many others. Moreover, the varying color of boards and the illumination changes within the video makes it impossible to use trivial thresholding techniques, for the extraction of content. Many universities throughout the world still heavily rely on chalkboard as a mode of instruction. Therefore, recognizing these lecture content will not only aid in indexing and retrieval applications but will also help understand high level video semantics, useful for Multi-media Learning Objects (MLO). In order to encounter those adversaries, we here propose a system for segmentation and recognition of cursive handwritten text from chalkboard lecture videos. We first create a foreground model to segment background blackboard. We then segment the text characters using one-dimensional vertical histogram. Later, we extract gradient based features and classify those characters using an SVM classifier. We obtained an encouraging accuracy of 86.28% on 5-fold cross validation.
Starting Page	155
Ending Page	160
File Size	373082
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467351522
DOI	10.1109/SITIS.2012.33
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-11-25
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Support vector machines Handwriting recognition Text recognition Databases cursive handwriting text recognition character classification Feature extraction instructional videos Kernel Videos text segmentation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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